Output details
34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Leeds : B - Design
Article title
Outlining a fashion studies project
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty
Article number
-
Volume number
1
Issue number
1
First page of article
3
ISSN of journal
2040-4417
Year of publication
2010
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
This paper first analyses the evolution of fashion studies as an academic (separate from craft-based) discipline. It identifies its ‘nation building’ activities (identity formation, agenda setting and gatekeeping) as fitting a discipline in the making.
Noting the impact of the post-structuralist approach to the fluidity of previously rigid definitions of class-appropriate, or gender-appropriate fashion, and the boundaries between art and fashion, it discusses four major themes that dominate the literature in the field: the role of the visual in reflecting on clothes, the role of classification in thinking about clothes, the limits of sartorial signification and the culture of brands.
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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