Fashion and Celebrity Culture

Pamela Church Gibson is Reader in Film & Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, Vice-Chair of the European Popular Culture Association, and Principal Editor of the refereed journal Film, Fashion & Consumption. She has published extensively on film, fashion, gender, and heritage over the last 25 years. Her books include Dirty Looks: Women, Power, Pornography (BFI, 1993), The Oxford Guide to Film Studies (1998, with John Hill), Fashion Cultures (2001, with Stella Bruzzi), More Dirty Looks: Gender, Power, Pornography (BFI, 2004), Fashion and Celebrity Culture (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Fashion Cultures Revisited: Theories, Explorations, Analysis (2013).

• 1 Introduction 2 Fashion and Celebrity Culture, Past and PresentPART I: FASHION & FILM3 Film Stars as Fashion Icons 4 Hollywood Celebrity Cover Girls5 ‘Fashion Films': from Prêt-a-porter to A Single Man6 Sex and The City: From Small Screen to Big ScreenPART II: FASHION MEDIA & CULTURE8 Fashion on Television: So Many Celebrities, So Little Fashion?7 The Changing Face(s) of the Fashion Magazine and the New Media Landscape9 Fashion, Music and Celebrity 11 Artists, Celebrity and Fashion: From Wilde and Warhol to Taylor-WoodPART III: FASHION GONE GLOBAL10 Designers and Models become Brands12 Other Continents, Other Celebrities, Other Fashions 13 Conclusion: The Future of Celebrity-Driven FashionNotesReferencesIndex

Fashion and Celebrity Culture explores the relationship between fashion and style that underpins contemporary celebrity culture. By tracing particular contemporary stylistic shifts as they have intersected with media technologies - photography, cinema, magazines and music - Pamela Church Gibson engages with broad social and cultural transformations in the field of popular culture. Focusing on fashion and its representation, Church Gibson offers a useful point of entry for understanding the processes and meanings that characterize celebrity culture today.