Fashion Media - Past and Present

The fashion media is in the midst of deep social and technological change. Including a broad range of case studies, from fashion plates to fashion films, and from fashion magazines to fashion blogs, this ground-breaking book provides an up-to-date examination of the role and significance of this field.Winner of the PCA/ACA Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection, includes chapters written by international scholars covering topics from historic magazine cultures and contemporary digital innovations to art and film, exploring themes such as gender, ethnicity, design, taste and authorship.Highlighting the complexity of processes that bind design, design, technology, society and identity together, Fashion Media will be of be essential reading for students of fashion studies, cultural studies, visual culture studies, design history, communications and art and design practice and theory.

List of contents

Introduction: Djurdja Bartlett, Shaun Cole and Agnès Rocamora

Section 1: Magazines
Chapter 1. Taste, Fashion and the French Fashion Magazine. Sanda Miller, Southampton Solent University, UK
Chapter 2. Fun with Pins and Rope: How Caroline Baker Styled the Seventies. Alice Beard, Kingston University, UK
Chapter 3. ‘To the Ends of the Earth’: Fashion and Ethnicity in the Vogue fashion shoot. Sarah Cheang, Royal College of Art, UK
Chapter 4. Coco Chanel and Socialist Fashion Magazines. Djurdja Bartlett, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK
Chapter 5. Advertising Men’s Underwear. Shaun Cole, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK

Section 2 Painting, Photography and Film
Chapter 6. Fashion and the Law: The Muslim Headscarf and the Modern Woman. Barbara Vinken, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Chapter 7. Fashion, Media and Gender in Christian Schad's Portraiture of the 1920s. Änne Söll, University of Potsdam, Germany
Chapter 8. Caught On Camera: The Fashioned Body and the Criminal Body. Nilgin Yusuf, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK
Chapter 9. Guerrilla Media: Towards a Media Theory of Fashion. Friedrich Weltzien, University of Potsdam, Germany
Chapter 10. The Fashion-Film Effect. Marketa Uhlirova, Central St Martins, University of the Arts, London, UK

Section 3 New Media
Chapter 11. Fashion Modeling, Blink Technologies, and New Imaging Regimes. Elizabeth Wissinger, BMCC, City University of New York, USA
Chapter 12. Fashion Films, Blogs and E-Commerce: The Puzzle of Fashion Distinction in China. Simona Segre Reinach, University of Bologna, Italy
Chapter 13. How new are new media? The Case of Fashion Blogs. Agnès Rocamora, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK
Chapter 14. The Modest Fashion Blogosphere: Establishing Reputation, Maintaining Independence. Reina Lewis, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK
Chapter 15. Fashion’s Digital Body: Seeing and Feeling in Fashion Interactives. Eugenie Shinkle, University of Westminster, UK

Chapter 16. Current issues in the fashion media: industry roundtable

Index

About the author

Djurdja Bartlett is Senior Research Fellow at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK.

Shaun Cole is Associate Professor in Fashion at Winchester School of Art, UK.

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

Summary

The fashion media is in the midst of deep social and technological change. Including a broad range of case studies, from fashion plates to fashion films, and from fashion magazines to fashion blogs, this ground-breaking book provides an up-to-date examination of the role and significance of this field.

Winner of the PCA/ACA Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection, Fashion Media includes chapters written by international scholars covering topics from historic magazine cultures and contemporary digital innovations to art and film, exploring themes such as gender, ethnicity, design, taste and authorship.

Highlighting the complexity of processes that bind design, design, technology, society and identity together, Fashion Media will be of be essential reading for students of fashion studies, cultural studies, visual culture studies, design history, communications and art and design practice and theory.

Foreword

An in-depth look at the changing face of fashion across a multitude of media forms, this book covers a broad range of themes including gender, ethnicity, design, taste and authorship and catalogues how different media have influenced fashion and vice versa.

Additional text

Fashion media as an academic subject has been underexplored despite its constant presence in our lives. This book addresses the problem by analyzing fashion images in magazines, paintings, photography, film, and digital media. Every fashion scholar will find something of interest in these sixteen fascinating chapters. It’s a must-have for the serious fashion bookshelf!

Product details

• Authors: Djurdja Bartlett, Shaun Cole, Agnes Rocamora
• Assisted by: Djurdja Bartlett (Editor), Shaun Cole (Editor), Agnes Rocamora (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781350105652
• ISBN: 978-1-350-10565-2
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 190 mm x 244 mm x 14 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design