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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction to Thinking through Fashion
Agnès Rocamora and Anneke Smelik
2. Karl Marx: Fashion and Capitalism
Anthony Sullivan
3. Sigmund Freud: More than a Fetish: Fashion and Psychoanalysis
Janice Miller
4. Georg Simmel: The 'Philosophical Monet'
Peter McNeil
5. Walter Benjamin: Fashion, Modernity and the City Street Adam Geczy
and Vicki Karaminas
6. Mikhail Bakhtin: Fashioning the Grotesque Body
Francesca Granata
7. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Corporeal Experience of Fashion
Llewellyn Negrin
8. Roland Barthes: Semiology and the Rhetorical Codes of Fashion
Paul Jobling
9. Erving Goffmann: Social Science as an Art of Cultural Observation
Efrat Tseëlon
10. Gilles Deleuze: Bodies-without-Organs in the Folds of Fashion
Anneke Smelik
11. Michel Foucault: Fashioning the Body Politic
Jane Tynan
12. Niklas Luhmann: Fashion between the Fashionable and Old-fashioned
Aurélie van de Peer
13. Jean Baudrillard: Postmodern Fashion as the End of Meaning
Efrat Tseëlon
14. Pierre Bourdieu: The Field of Fashion
Agnès Rocamora
15. Jacques Derrida: Fashion under Erasure
Alison Gill
16. Bruno Latour: Actor-Network-Theory and Fashion
Joanne Entwistle
17. Judith Butler: Fashion and Performativity
Elizabeth Wissinger
Notes on Contributors
Index
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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction to Thinking through Fashion
Agnès Rocamora and Anneke Smelik
2. Karl Marx: Fashion and Capitalism
Anthony Sullivan
3. Sigmund Freud: More than a Fetish: Fashion and Psychoanalysis
Janice Miller
4. Georg Simmel: The 'Philosophical Monet'
Peter McNeil
5. Walter Benjamin: Fashion, Modernity and the City Street Adam Geczy
and Vicki Karaminas
6. Mikhail Bakhtin: Fashioning the Grotesque Body
Francesca Granata
7. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Corporeal Experience of Fashion
Llewellyn Negrin
8. Roland Barthes: Semiology and the Rhetorical Codes of Fashion
Paul Jobling
9. Erving Goffmann: Social Science as an Art of Cultural Observation
Efrat Tseëlon
10. Gilles Deleuze: Bodies-without-Organs in the Folds of Fashion
Anneke Smelik
11. Michel Foucault: Fashioning the Body Politic
Jane Tynan
12. Niklas Luhmann: Fashion between the Fashionable and Old-fashioned
Aurélie van de Peer
13. Jean Baudrillard: Postmodern Fashion as the End of Meaning
Efrat Tseëlon
14. Pierre Bourdieu: The Field of Fashion
Agnès Rocamora
15. Jacques Derrida: Fashion under Erasure
Alison Gill
16. Bruno Latour: Actor-Network-Theory and Fashion
Joanne Entwistle
17. Judith Butler: Fashion and Performativity
Elizabeth Wissinger
Notes on Contributors
Index
Contents Acknowledgements Introduction to Thinking through Fashion Agnès Rocamora and Anneke Smelik 2. Karl Marx: Fashion and Capitalism Anthony Sullivan 3. Sigmund Freud: More than a Fetish: Fashion and Psychoanalysis Janice Miller 4. Georg Simmel: The ‘Philosophical Monet’ Peter McNeil 5. Walter Benjamin: Fashion, Modernity and the City Street Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas 6. Mikhail Bakhtin: Fashioning the Grotesque Body Francesca Granata 7. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Corporeal Experience of Fashion Llewellyn Negrin 8. Roland Barthes: Semiology and the Rhetorical Codes of Fashion Paul Jobling 9. Erving Goffmann: Social Science as an Art of Cultural Observation Efrat Tseëlon 10. Gilles Deleuze: Bodies-without-Organs in the Folds of Fashion Anneke Smelik 11. Michel Foucault: Fashioning the Body Politic Jane Tynan 12. Niklas Luhmann: Fashion between the Fashionable and Old-fashioned Aurélie van de Peer 13. Jean Baudrillard: Postmodern Fashion as the End of Meaning Efrat Tseëlon 14. Pierre Bourdieu: The Field of Fashion Agnès Rocamora 15. Jacques Derrida: Fashion under Erasure Alison Gill 16. Bruno Latour: Actor-Network-Theory and Fashion Joanne Entwistle 17. Judith Butler: Fashion and Performativity Elizabeth Wissinger Notes on Contributors Index
First 'how to' guide to the ideas of key thinkers for fashion students.
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 (2009) and a co-editor of The Handbook of Fashion Studies (2013) and of Fashion Media: Past and Present (2013).Anneke Smelik is Professor of Visual Culture on the Katrien van Munster chair at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Her books include Delft Blue to Denim Blue: Dutch Fashion (2016), Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture (2013) and And the Mirror Cracked: Feminist Cinema and Film Theory (1998).
[Thinking Through Fashion] would certainly prove useful to anyone
making their first foray into the world of academic theory, and
also for those needing to refresh their memories on the various
theoretical approaches key to the study of western fashion.
*The Journal of Dress History*
An important pedagogical contribution to the field of fashion
studies ... Thinking Through Fashion offers a very accessible guide
as to how to use social and cultural theory to analyze fashion in
its 'many manifestations'.
*Fashion Theory*
While there’s no shortage of useful fashion studies readers and
reference books for fashion studies students ... none have gone so
far as to systematically provide suggestions for the application of
key western theorists and philosophers to fashion studies so
comprehensibly and concisely.
*The Fashion Studies Journal*
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