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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Fashion Cultures

    Theories, Explorations and Analysis, 2nd Edition

    Edited by Stella Bruzzi, Pamela Church Gibson

    From the catwalk to the shopping mall, from the big screen to the art museum, fashion plays an increasingly central role in contemporary culture. Fashion Cultures investigates why we are so fascinated by fashion and the associated spheres of photography, magazines and television, and...

    To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge

  6. Fashion Theory

    An Introduction

    By Malcolm Barnard

    Books that explain and analyse the nature, production and consumption of fashion are very fashionable at present. Fashion is explained in terms of the body, or fetish, or gender or culture. Slightly less fashionable, it seems, are introductory books on the theories of fashion. All explanations and...

    To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Fashion

    Edited by Malcolm Barnard

    Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

    Over the last forty years or so academic interest in fashion has burgeoned, and, since the 1970s at least, attempts to define, analyse, and critically explain fashion phenomena have become vital areas of research and study in almost all disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. As...

    Published July 20th 2011 by Routledge