International Clientele, from Dressing Up: The Women Who influenced French Fashion

Dressing, seducing and signifying: from the symbolic dimension of fashion to the contemporary erotic imagery

As a relatively recent social and cultural phenomenon, fashion currently embodies a certain erotic imagery that seems to organise collective life. According to Lipovetsky, it governs our societies. Fashion, being ephemeral by nature, actually expresses the sovereignty of appearance and the power of aesthetic fantasy. It is, in fact, the most significant representation of the triumph of seductio...

Breast cancer subtype of French women is not influenced by socioeconomic status: A population-based-study

CONTEXT The molecular subtype of breast tumours plays a major role in cancer prognosis and treatment options. Triple negative tumours (TN) carry the worst prognosis and affects most frequently women of low socioeconomic status (SES). Studies have shown that non-biologic factors, such as the socioeconomic status could have an influence on tumour biology. To this date no study has been done inves...

The Dividend Clientele Hypothesis : Evidence from the 2003 Tax Act ∗

In this paper, I test the dividend clientele hypothesis (DCH) by examining the impact of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (the 2003 tax act) on household portfolio dividend yields. The DCH predicts that the 2003 tax act, which reduced the tax-disadvantage of dividends differentially across the income distribution, would cause high income households to shift their portfo...

Dressing Up and Dressing Down: Clothing and Class Identity in the Novelas ejemplares

Fashion and passion: marketing sex to women

Against a backdrop of a ‘pornographication’ of mainstream media and the emergence of a more heavily sexualized culture, women are increasingly targeted as sexual consumers. In the UK, the success of TV shows like Sex and the City and the ‘fashion ‘n’ passion’ of sex emporia like Ann Summers suggests that late twentieth century discourses which foregrounded female pleasure have crystallised in a...