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DISROBED: HOW CLOTHING PREDICTS ECONOMIC CYCLES, SAVES LIVES, AND DETERMINES THE FUTURE

Book ID/图书代码: 02173018C00031

English Summary/英文概要: We may not often think of our clothes as having a function beyond covering our naked bodies and keeping us a little safer from the elements. But to discount the enormous influence of clothing on anything from economic cycles to the future of water scarcity is to ignore the greater meaning of the garments we put on our backs. Disrobed vividly considers the role that clothing plays in everything from natural disasters to climate change to terrorism to geopolitics to agribusiness. Chapter by chapter, Tang takes the reader on an unusual journey, telling stories and asking questions that most consumers have never considered about their clothing. Why do banker’s wives sell off their clothes and how does that presage a recession? How is clothing linked to ethanol and starvation on the African continent? Could RFID in clothing save the lives of millions of people in earthquakes around the world?

This book takes an everyday item and considers it in a way that readers may not have previously thought possible. It tackles topics relevant to today, everything from fakes in the museums to farm-to-table eating, and answers questions about how we can anticipate and change our world in areas as far-reaching as the environment, politics, and the clash of civilizations occurring between countries. Much like other pop economics books have done before, the stories are easily retold in water-cooler style, allowing them to be thoughtfully considered, argued, and discussed.

Chinese Summary/中文概要: 我们可能不会经常认为我们的衣服除了遮盖我们赤裸的身体,让我们远离自然,还有点安全。但是,忽视服装对从经济周期到未来缺水的巨大影响,就等于忽视了我们穿上的服装的更大意义。从自然灾害到气候变化、恐怖主义、地缘政治,再到农业综合企业,服装都扮演着重要的角色。一章接着一章,唐带领读者踏上一段不同寻常的旅程,讲述故事,问一些大多数消费者从未考虑过的问题。为什么银行家的妻子会卖掉自己的衣服,这又如何预示着经济衰退呢?在非洲大陆,衣服与乙醇和饥饿有什么联系?衣服上的射频识别技术能拯救世界各地数百万地震中的生命吗? 这本书以一种读者可能没有想到过的方式来考虑日常用品。它探讨了与今天相关的话题,从博物馆里的赝品到从农场到餐桌的美食,并回答了我们如何在环境、政治和国家之间发生的文明冲突等影响深远的领域预测和改变我们的世界的问题。就像其他流行经济学书籍之前所做的那样,这些故事很容易被以冷水器的方式重新讲述,让人们深思熟虑、争辩和讨论。(WYL)

Awards/获奖情况:“你穿什么能救你的命,保护你的安全,或者杀死全世界的人?西尔•唐表示,有时确实如此。你从来没有读过像《服装更替》这样的国家安全书籍。关于我们的个人选择如何从根本上颠覆地球另一端的社会的新观点。衣服是否反映了文明之间的锯齿状断层?唐的《服装更替》证明了一个令人信服的理由,那就是它可能。”——前中央情报局(CIA)分析师阿基•佩里茨,他追踪了伊拉克基地组织的战略、领导力和国际联系;乔治华盛顿大学网络和国土安全中心高级研究员;美国大学兼职教授

“西尔•唐的《服装更替》是一个强大的思想启动器,它将蝴蝶效应从平凡转变到至关重要。这本书揭示了世界另一端正在发生的事情的暗流,并将这些点与我们面前的事物联系起来。唐利用世界范围内的非党派、基于事实的事件向我们展示了微行为的力量,以及服装作为政治工具和预测工具的潜力。”——扬•马里奥斯, 灰雁伏特加的首席营销官

“我们的服装在西尔•唐关于时尚的迷人而深刻的研究中,讲述着,消费着,甚至拯救着这个世界,它不仅仅是衣服的线条。”——乔纳森•沃策尔,麦肯锡全球研究所董事兼高级合伙人

“万物相互联系的理论,从时尚的角度来看。很有趣,但也提出了一些重要的问题,比如为什么我的幸运袖扣总是起作用。”——保罗•詹姆斯,千禧酒店和度假村全球营销和品牌推广;前全球品牌喜达屋豪华酒店领导

“这本书定义了服装业和金融业之间的桥梁,而金融业是大多数人真正不了解的行业。投资、银行和保险公司等金融市场在收入和投资方面严重依赖上述来源。这本书将会让你看到两个强大而有利可图的行业的动态。”——萨尔瓦多•罗森伯格,纽约大学坦顿工程学院土木工程与城市系统系教授

“你如何将服装问题与生态系统和全球挑战联系在一起,真是令人惊叹。通过突出不同的元素和领域,我毫不怀疑读者会对服装在我们生活中扮演的关键角色产生兴趣和灵感。西尔•唐的书生动地描述了服装对我们有限的自然资源的影响,同时也提供了人们在社会中实现积极的社会变革的杰出的想法和解决方案。《服装更替》为读者提供了一个认识到道德和可持续服装价值的门户,它也可以解决2030年可持续发展议程,从而帮助我们共通的人性。”——阿米尔•多西,全球合作论坛主席

About the Author/作者介绍: 西尔•唐是19岁的HipGuide Inc.的首席执行官和创始人,她是一名未来学家,她关注的是我们如何消费以及为什么消费,关注世界事件,如自然灾害、地缘政治冲突和流行病。她为英国《金融时报》写了数百融合了世界事件和软商品的文章,预测和记录趋势,如苹果手表和其他聪明的衣物,实验室钻石,美国国防部资助阿富汗的珠宝公司,南海珍宝对全球变暖的影响,坦桑黝帘石的谋杀案的投机者坎贝尔•布里奇斯。她的品牌咨询工作专注于帮助包括帝亚吉欧、露华浓和密歇根州在内的公司。她推动了一些最著名的美容、饮料、汽车和城市发展项目的推出,其中包括冷冻酒精和矿物化妆品等品类的改变。除了开发她的网站,1999年,她在市场上创建了第一个移动生活方式的短信产品,并预测了今天的移动优惠券。她的公司HipGuide是一个案例研究,从迪拜到新斯科舍省,再到普度,在世界各地的大学里,通过教科书系列教学。

Syl Tang is CEO and founder of the 19-year old HipGuide Inc. A futurist, her focus is how and why we consume, with an eye towards world events such as natural disasters, geo-political clashes, and pandemics. She has written hundreds of articles on the confluence of world events and soft goods for the Financial Times, predicting and documenting trends such as the Apple watch and other smart wearables, lab-made diamonds, the Department of Defense’s funding of Afghan jewelry companies, the effects of global warming on South Sea pearls, and the unsolved murder of tanzanite speculator Campbell Bridges. Her brand consulting work focuses on helping companies including Diageo, Revlon and the State of Michigan. She is behind the launches of some of the most well-known beauty, beverage, automotive and urban development efforts including category changers such as frozen alcohol and mineral makeup. In addition to developing her site, in 1999 she created the first mobile lifestyle texting product in the market and predicted mobile couponing as it exists today. Her company HipGuide is a case study taught in universities around the world, from Dubai to Nova Scotia to Purdue, through a textbook series.

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