THINKING THROUGH FASHION

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Reina Lewis is Professor of Cultural Studies at London College of Fashion UAL UK.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 śunderground magazines of the early 1970s (Frendz Red Rag Spare Rib Come Together) before she became an academic. Shes written for the Guardian and her nonfiction 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).AgnĘs Rocamora is Reader in Social and Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion University of the Arts London UK.Agnes Rocamora is Reader in Social and Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion University of the Arts London. She is the author of Fashioning the City: Paris Fashion and the Media (I.B. Tauris 2009) and a coeditor of The Handbook of Fashion Studies (2013) and of Fashion Media: Past and Present (2013).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.First śhow to guide to the ideas of key thinkers for fashion studentsContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction to Thinking through FashionAgnĘs Rocamora and Anneke Smelik2.Karl Marx: Fashion and CapitalismAnthony Sullivan 3.Sigmund Freud: More than a Fetish: Fashion and PsychoanalysisJanice Miller4.Georg Simmel: The śPhilosophical MonetPeter McNeil5.Walter Benjamin: Fashion Modernity and the City Street Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas6.Mikhail Bakhtin: Fashioning the Grotesque BodyFrancesca Granata7.Maurice MerleauPonty: The Corporeal Experience of FashionLlewellyn Negrin 8.Roland Barthes: Semiology and the Rhetorical Codes of FashionPaul Jobling9.Erving Goffmann: Social Science as an Art of Cultural Obse

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