Fashion Theory: A Reader, 2nd edition

by Malcolm Barnard

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Fashion A Reader brings together and presents a wide range of essays on fashion theory that will engage and inform both the general reader and the specialist student of fashion. From apparently simple and accessible theories concerning what fashion is to seemingly more difficult or challenging theories concerning globalisation and new media, this collection contextualises different theoretical approaches to identify, analyse and explain the remarkable diversity, complexity and beauty of what we understand and experience every day as fashion and clothing.



This second edition contains entirely new sections on fashion and sustainability, fashion and globalisation, fashion and digital/social media and fashion and the body/prosthesis. It also contains updated and revised sections on fashion, identity and difference, and on fashion and consumption and fashion as communication. More specifically, the section on identity and difference has been updated to include contemporary theoretical debates surrounding Islam and fashion, and LGBT+ communities and fashion and the section on consumption now includes theories of 'prosumption'. Each section has a specialist and dedicated Editor's Introduction which provides essential conceptual background, theoretical contextualisation and critical summaries of the readings in each section.


Bringing together the most influential and ground breaking writers on fashion and exposing the ideas and theories behind what they say, this unique collection of extracts and essays brings to light the presuppositions involved in the things we all think and say about fashion. This second edition of Fashion A Reader is a timeless and invaluable resource for both the general reader and undergraduate students across a range of disciplines including sociology, cultural studies and fashion studies.

Genres: Fashion, Art, Nonfiction, Theory

830 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Malcolm Barnard is Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at Loughborough University and an internationally recognized theorist of visual culture. He has degrees in philosophy and in sociology and his PhD concerned Derrida and other French philosophers.

Reviews

[Lina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Prof Higonnet gets it

[Alex · Rating 2 out of 5]

heavy on "exhaustive" read

[Kateřina Musilová · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Reader" je všeobecně dobře udělaný a zpracovaný koncept antologií, jejichž autoři jsou v dané oblasti zběhlí a sami se jí dlouho věnují. Ukázky z jednotlivých děl jsou dobře vybrané a slouží jako dobrý úvod do problematiky. Pokud si člověk neví rady, odkud čerpat při analýze určitého problému z oblasti společenských věd, tyto knihy jsou inteligentním pomocníkem.

[Cauchy09 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some dated excerpts from interesting writings on fashion theory from design, social and cultural perspectives. It's a good taste of many things that refers one on to the canon. Contrasts with current trends are fun to identify and speculate on.