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 serious academic work on and around the theory and practice
of fashion continues to flourish as never before, this new title in
the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Media and
Cultural Studies, meets the need for an authoritative reference
work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex
corpus of literature, and to provide a map of the area as it has
emerged and developed. It is a landmark collection of foundational
and the best cutting-edge scholarship in the field and is organized
in four volumes.
What is meant by fashion? Volume I provides a conspectus of some
of the most important definitions and philosophies of fashion. The
philosophical sources of the various senses of the word fashion in
the work of Kant and Adam Smith, for example, are represented
here.
Volume II examines the many ways in which analysts have tried to
make sense of the incredible variety of things that people wear.
One of the simplest ways of doing this is to describe and classify
those things. A slightly more sophisticated approach has been to
attempt an analysis of them. Volume II presents the best of both
the descriptive and analytical approaches to the understanding of
fashion.
In addition to describing and analysing fashion, many scholars
and other thinkers have tried to account for the very possibility
of fashion. The critical task of explaining what makes fashion
possible may be described as answering the question Why does this
item of clothing look the way it does? and it demands social,
cultural, economic, and political answers. Volume III, therefore,
collects the pre-eminent and most influential work to explore and
explain what people wear.
From whence does our individual and personal identity spring? Is
it even appropriate, in an age of mass fashion, to think of
ourselves as having individual identities? Volume IV gathers the
essential scholarship which addresses these and other hotly
contested questions about identity, image, and performance that are
raised by postmodern critical analyses of fashion.
Fashion is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction,
newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in
its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential work of
reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as
a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.
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