Art, Design and Visual Culture

Fashion In Focus

Concepts, Practices and Politics

By Tim Edwards

The study of fashion has exploded in recent decades, yet what this all means or quite where it might take us is not clear. This new book helps to bring fashion into focus, with a comprehensive guide to the key theories, perspectives and developments in the field. Tim Edwards includes...

Published November 18th 2010 by Routledge

The Fashion History Reader

Global Perspectives

Edited by Giorgio Riello, Peter McNeil

'Riello and McNeil's new collection of essays represents an immense and impressive project' – Choice 'Now, the key contributions from nearly every expert in the field are assembled in one fascinating book. This kaleidoscopic and informative volume ranges impressively across conventional boundaries...

Published April 25th 2010 by Routledge

The Places and Spaces of Fashion, 1800-2007

Edited by John Potvin

Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

The Places and Spaces of Fashion, 1800-2007 brings together art, design, fashion, and a much neglected concern for its spatial realities. The spaces and places of fashion have often been overlooked in the writing of fashion history and visual culture. More often than not, however, these...

Published July 14th 2009 by Routledge

The Fabric of Cultures

Fashion, Identity, and Globalization

Edited by Eugenia Paulicelli, Hazel Clark

Fashion is both public and private, material and symbolic, always caught within the lived experience and providing an incredible tool to study culture and history. The Fabric of Cultures examines the impact of fashion as a manufacturing industry and as a culture industry that shapes the identities...

Published September 25th 2008 by Routledge

Fashion Theory

A Reader

Edited by Malcolm Barnard

Series: Routledge Student Readers

From its beginnings in the fifteenth century, intensified interest in fashion and the study of fashion over the last thirty years has led to a vast and varied literature on the subject. This collection of essays surveys and contextualizes the ways in which a wide range of disciplines have used&...

Published May 2nd 2007 by Routledge

The Fashion Handbook

By Tim Jackson, David Shaw

Series: Media Practice

The Fashion Handbook is the indispensable guide to the fashion industry. It explores the varied and diverse aspects of the business, bringing together critical concepts with practical information about the industry’s structure and core skills, as well as offering advice on real working practices...

Published May 3rd 2006 by Routledge

Fashion as Communication

2nd Edition

By Malcolm Barnard

What kinds of things do fashion and clothing say about us? What does it mean to wear Gap or Gaultier, Milletts or Moschino? Are there any real differences between Hip-Hop style and Punk anti-styles? In this fully revised and updated edition, Malcolm Barnard introduces fashion and clothing as ways...

Published August 28th 2002 by Routledge

In the Culture Society

Art, Fashion and Popular Music

By Angela McRobbie, Angela Mcrobbie

How do different artistic and cultural practices develop in the contemporary consumer culture? Providing a new direction in cultural studies as well as a vigorous defence of the field, Angela McRobbie's new collection of essays considers the social consequences of cultural proliferation and the...

Published June 23rd 1999 by Routledge

British Fashion Design

Rag Trade or Image Industry?

By Angela McRobbie

British Fashion Design explores the tensions between fashion as art form, and the demands of a ruthlessly commercial industry. Based on interviews and research conducted over a number of years, Angela McRobbie charts the flow of art school fashion graduates into the industry; their attempts to...

Published June 10th 1998 by Routledge