Thinking Through Fashion

Agnes Rocamora is Reader in Social and Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. She is the author of Fashioning the City: Paris, Fashion and the Media (2009) and a co-editor of The Handbook of Fashion Studies (2013) and of Fashion Media: Past and Present (2013).Anneke Smelik is Professor of Visual Culture on the Katrien van Munster chair at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Her books include Delft Blue to Denim Blue: Dutch Fashion (2016), Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture (2013) and And the Mirror Cracked: Feminist Cinema and Film Theory (1998).

Contents


Acknowledgements

Introduction to Thinking through Fashion
Agnès Rocamora and Anneke Smelik

2.Karl Marx: Fashion and Capitalism
Anthony Sullivan

3.Sigmund Freud: More than a Fetish: Fashion and Psychoanalysis
Janice Miller

4.Georg Simmel: The ‘Philosophical Monet’
Peter McNeil

5.Walter Benjamin: Fashion, Modernity and the City Street Adam Geczy
and Vicki Karaminas

6.Mikhail Bakhtin: Fashioning the Grotesque Body
Francesca Granata

7.Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Corporeal Experience of Fashion
Llewellyn Negrin

8.Roland Barthes: Semiology and the Rhetorical Codes of Fashion
Paul Jobling

9.Erving Goffmann: Social Science as an Art of Cultural Observation
Efrat Tseëlon

10.Gilles Deleuze: Bodies-without-Organs in the Folds of Fashion
Anneke Smelik

11.Michel Foucault: Fashioning the Body Politic
Jane Tynan

12.Niklas Luhmann: Fashion between the Fashionable and Old-fashioned
Aurélie van de Peer

13.Jean Baudrillard: Postmodern Fashion as the End of Meaning
Efrat Tseëlon

14.Pierre Bourdieu: The Field of Fashion
Agnès Rocamora

15.Jacques Derrida: Fashion under Erasure
Alison Gill

16.Bruno Latour: Actor-Network-Theory and Fashion
Joanne Entwistle

17.Judith Butler: Fashion and Performativity
Elizabeth Wissinger


Notes on Contributors

Index