Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists (Dress Cultures)

Agnès Rocamora

ISBN 10: 1350125202 / ISBN 13: 9781350125209

Published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts (UK), 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists (Dress Cultures)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts (UK)
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350125202
• ISBN 13: 9781350125209
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 480 grams

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Synopsis

Learning how to think through fashion is both exciting and challenging, being dependent on one's ability to critically engage with an array of theories and concepts. This is the first book designed to accompany readers through the process of thinking through fashion. It aims to help them grasp both the relevance of social and cultural theory to fashion, dress, and material culture and, conversely, the relevance of those fields to social and cultural theory. It does so by offering a guide through the work of selected major thinkers, introducing their concepts and ideas. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and is devoted to a key thinker, capturing the significance of their thought to the understanding of the field of fashion, while also assessing the importance of this field for a critical engagement with these thinkers' ideas.This is a guide and reference for students and scholars in the fields of fashion, dress and material culture, the creative industries, sociology, cultural history, design and cultural studies.

About the Authors

Agnès Rocamora is Reader in Social and Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK.

Reina Lewis is Emerita Professor of Cultural Studies at London College of Fashion, UAL, UK.

Anneke Smelik is emerita professor of Visual Culture and Fashion Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands).

Elizabeth Wilson is a pioneer in the development of fashion studies, and has been a university professor, feminist campaigner and activist. Her writing career began in the 'underground' magazines of the early 1970s, (Frendz, Red Rag, Spare Rib, Come Together) before she became an academic. She's written for the Guardian and her non-fiction books include Adorned in Dreams (1985, 2003), The Sphinx in the City (1992) (shortlisted for the Manchester Odd Fellows Prize), Bohemians (2000) and Love Game (2014) (long listed for the William Hill sportswriting prize), as well as six crime novels, including War Damage (2009) and The Girl in Berlin (2012) (long listed for the Golden Dagger Award).