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.

Chapters written by international scholars cover topics including historic magazine cultures, contemporary digital innovations, 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.

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

Shaun Cole is Course Leader for MA History and Culture of Fashion and MA Fashion Curation at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK.

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

Introduction: Djurdja Bartlett, Shaun Cole and Agnès Rocamora

Section 1: Fashion and Magazines
Introduction
France Posses a Journal of Taste: Fashion, Taste and the Fashion Magazine, Sanda Miller, Southampton Solent University, UK
An Unlikely Comrade: Coco Chanel and Socialist Fashion, Djurdja Bartlett, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK
Feels Better Because It Fits Better, Shaun Cole, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK
Fun with Pins and Rope: How Caroline Baker Styled the Seventies, Alice Beard, Kingston University, UK
To the Ends of the Earth: Fashion and Ethnicity in the Vogue Fashion Shoot, Sarah Cheang, Royal College of Art, UK
Fashion and Modernity: Niqab, Head Scarf, Burka, Barbara Vinken, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Section 2: Photography, Film and Art
Introduction
Painting Style - Taking Pictures: Fashion, Media and Gender in 1920s Portraiture, Änne Söll, University of Potsdam, Germany
The Stuff of Fashion and the Cinema Effect, Marketa Uhlirova, Central St Martins, University of the Arts, London, UK
Caught on Camera: Intersections and Dialogues Between the Fashioned Body and the Criminal Body, Nilgin Yusuf, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK
Studio: The Final Frontier?, Magdalene Keaney, Curator and Creative Director of the Fashion Space Gallery at London College of Fashion, UK
Guerrilla Media: Fashion, Art and Film, Friedrich Weltzien, University of Potsdam, Germany

Section 3: New Media
Introduction
Fashion Modelling in the Regime of the Blink, Elizabeth Wissinger, BMCC, City University of New York, USA
Unpacking Authenticity: China: Factory to Web, Simona Segre Reinach, University of Bologna, Italy
Establishing Reputation, Maintaining Independence: The Modest Fashion Blogosphere, Reina Lewis, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK
Feeling Fashion's Digital Body, Eugénie Shinkle, University of Westminster, UK
How New are New Media? The Case of Fashion Blogs, Agnès Rocamora, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK

Section 4: Future of Fashion Media
Introduction
Industry Panel: Penny Martin in discussion with Laura Bradley, Katrina Dodd and Matthew Moneypenny

Index