Aesthetic Politics in Fashion

by Elke Gaugele

This critical anthology, volume 14, from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna invites
international scholars to debate fashion as a cultural phenomenon and meta-politic
at the intersection of artistic, creative, economic and everyday practices. A
variety of essays gathered into three sections - aesthetic economies, production
of space and alternative aesthetic politics - include topics such as fashion and
cultural commodification; the cooperation between the fashion industry and
celebrity; the relationship between designer, body, clothing and space; the
ethical turn in fashion; the roles of performance and whiteness in fashion today.
Contributors locate fashion within the context of a variety of disciplines including
art history, cultural sciences, sociology, design and fashion studies. Essays by
Endora Comer-Arldt, Ilka Becker, Tanja Bradaric, Martina Fineder, Eva Flicker,
Elke Gaugele, Birgit Haehnel, Alicia Kuhl, Michael R. Muller, Sabina Muriale, Taro
Ohmae, Barbara Schrodl, Ruby Sircar, Birke Sturm and Monica Titton

Genres: Fashion

259 pages, Paperback

Published February 10, 2015

About the author

Elke Gaugele is Cultural Anthropologist and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She is project director of the Austrian Center for Fashion Research, was a research fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, and was awarded a Lise Meitner-Habilitationsstipendium (2005–06) and a Maria Goeppert Mayer chair (2004). Publications include: Fashion and Postcolonial Critique (2019), coed. with Monica Titton; Critical Studies: Kultur- und Sozialtheorie im Kunstfeld (2016), coed. with Jens Kastner.