Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture

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Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of Œfashionı as the
cultural construction of the embodied identity. The importance of studying
the body as a site for the deployment of discourses has been well
established in a number of disciplines. In contrast, until Fashion Theoryıs
launch, the dressed body had suffered from a lack of critical analysis.

Increasingly scholars have recognized the cultural significance of
self-fashioning, including not only clothing but also such body alterations
as tattooing and piercing. Fashion Theory provides an international and
interdisciplinary forum for the rigorous analysis of cultural phenomena
ranging from foot-binding to fashion advertising.

All articles are peer-reviewed, have solid theoretical underpinnings and are
based on original research. The journal is heavily illustrated and includes
book/exhibition reviews and interviews.

Fashion Theory provides a vital contribution to the following disciplines:
cultural studies, art history, literary criticism, anthropology, fashion
history, media studies, gender studies, folklore studies and sociology.

ISSN 1362-704X 

Editor:

Dr Valerie Steele
The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, E201
Seventh Avenue at 27th Street
New York NY 10001-5992
USA

Fax: (212) 924 3958
Email: valerie_steele@fitnyc.edu or steelemajor@aol.com

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Abstracts available online. Articles available in PDF format.
 
Current Issue: Volume 10 Number 4, December 2006

Date: 24 January 2007