ABSTRACT

Following on from the ground-breaking collection Fashion Cultures, this second anthology, Fashion Cultures Revisited, contains 26 newly commissioned chapters exploring fashion culture from the start of the new millennium to the present day. The book is divided into six parts, each discussing different aspects of fashion culture:

  • Shopping, spaces and globalisation
  • Changing imagery, changing media
  • Altered landscapes, new modes of production
  • Icons and their legacies
  • Contestation, compliance, feminisms
  • Making masculinities

Fashion Cultures Revisited explores every facet of contemporary fashion culture and the associated spheres of photography, magazines and television, and shopping .Consequently it is an ideal companion to those interested in fashion studies, cultural studies, art, film, fashion history, sociology and gender studies.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

The changed fashion landscape of the new millennium

part |65 pages

Shopping, spaces and globalisation

chapter |20 pages

A New World Order?

Fashion and its capitals in the twenty-first century

chapter |12 pages

Branding Brazilian Fashion

Global visibility and intercultural perspectives

chapter |10 pages

‘Sydney Style'

Camping it up in the Emerald City 1

part |70 pages

Changing imagery, changing media

chapter |22 pages

Yesterday's Emblems and Tomorrow's Commodities

The return of the repressed in fashion imagery today

chapter |16 pages

Personal Fashion Blogs

Screens and mirrors in digital self-portraits*

chapter |7 pages

Exhibition-Making

A conversation

part |70 pages

Altered landscapes, new modes of production

chapter |14 pages

Fashion Photography

Communication, criticism and curation from 1975

chapter |14 pages

Escaping to Reality

Fashion photography in the 1990s

chapter |11 pages

Fashioning Indie

The consecration of a subculture and the emergence of ‘stylish' femininity

chapter |14 pages

‘Capitalism's Favourite Child'

The production of fashion

chapter |15 pages

Tailoring and Tweed

Mapping the spaces of ‘slow fashion'

part |57 pages

Icons and their legacies

chapter |17 pages

The ‘Fashion Arts'

Jean Michel Frank, Elsa Schiaparelli and the interwar aesthetic project 1

chapter |14 pages

The Pink Suit *

chapter |12 pages

Fab Lesbianism and Family Values

Costuming of lesbian identities in The L Word and The Kids Are All Right

chapter |11 pages

Fashion as Mythology

Considering the legacy of Alexander McQueen

part |65 pages

Contestation, compliance, feminisms

chapter |12 pages

Fashion, Feminism and the Neo-Feminist Ideal

From Coco Chanel to Jennifer Lopez

chapter |9 pages

New clothes, new faces, New Bodies

Cosmetic surgery and fashion

chapter |17 pages

Hijab Stories

Choice, politics, fashion

chapter |16 pages

Fashions, Fears and Ageing

Contradictions and complexity across the media

part |62 pages

Making masculinities

chapter |11 pages

Heroes and Villains

When men wear makeup

chapter |14 pages

The Italian Job

Football, fashion and that sarong

chapter |11 pages

Vampire Dandies

Fashionable masculine identities and style in popular culture

chapter |13 pages

‘I'm Saving the World, I Need a Decent Shirt'

Masculinity and sexuality in the new Doctor Who

chapter |11 pages

Suiting up and Stripping off

The male makeover