Binding: Paperback
Description: The Perfect Fit shows us how globalization works through the many people and places involved in making women's shoes. We know a lot about how clothing and shoes are made cheaply but very little about the process when they are made beautifully. In The Perfect Fit Claudio E. Benzecry looks at the craft that goes into designing shoes for women in the US market revealing that this creative process takes place on a global scale. Based on unprecedented behind - the - scenes access The Perfect Fit offers an ethnographic window into the day - to - day life of designers fit models and technicians as they put together samples and prototypes showing how expert work is a complement to and a necessary condition for factory exploitation. Benzecry looks at the decisions and constraints behind how shoes are designed and developed from initial inspiration to the mundane work of making sure a size seven stays constant. In doing so he also fosters an original understanding of how globalization works from the ground up. Drawing on five years of research in New York China and Brazil The Perfect Fit reveals how creative decisions are made the kinds of expertise involved and the almost impossible task of keeping the global supply chain humming.
Title: The Perfect Fit Creative Work In The Global Shoe Industry
Author(s): Benzecry Claudio E.
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226815909
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 1/21/2022
Category: Art Forms