Fashion Media: Past and Present

Product Description 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. Review “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.” ―Costume Society of America“[The book] reminds us that we can indeed discuss the media of the past and present, but can only intuit or get a partial glimpse of the future.” - Fashion, Society & Popular Culture About the Author 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.