Thinking Through Fashion

Agnès Rocamora is a Professor in Social and Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK. She has published widely in the field of fashion.Anneke Smelik is Professor Emerita of Visual Culture at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, Netherlands. She is co-editor of Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty.

• Preface to the Second Edition1. Introduction to Thinking Through Fashion, Agnès Rocamora, University of the Arts London, UK and Anneke Smelik, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands2. Karl Marx: Fashion and Capitalism, Anthony Sullivan, University of the Arts London, UK3. Sigmund Freud: More than a Fetish: Fashion and Psychoanalysis, Janice Miller, Kingston University, UK4. Georg Simmel: The ‘Philosophical Monet’, Peter McNeil, University of Technology Sydney, Australia5. W.E.B. Du Bois: Fashion through the Veil, Luciana Scrutchen, Parsons School of Design, USA6. Walter Benjamin: Fashion, Modernity and the City Street, Adam Geczy, University of Sydney, Australia and Vicki Karaminas, Massey University, New Zealand7. Mikhail Bakhtin: Fashioning the Grotesque Body, Francesca Granata, Parsons School of Design, USA8. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Corporeal Experience of Fashion, Llewellyn Negrin, University of Tasmania, Australia9. Roland Barthes: Semiology and the Rhetorical Codes of Fashion (Paul Jobling, Parsons Pairs, France)10. Erving Goffmann: Social Science as an Art of Cultural Observation, Efrat Tseëlon, University of Leeds, UK)11. Frantz Fanon: Fashion and Decolonisation on a Planetary Scale, Serkan Delice, University of the Arts London, UK12. Gilles Deleuze: Bodies-without-Organs in the Folds of Fashion, Anneke Smelik, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands13. Michel Foucault: Fashioning Power and Resistance, Jane Tynan, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands14. Jean Baudrillard: Postmodern Fashion as the End of Meaning, Efrat Tseëlon, University of Leeds, UK15. Pierre Bourdieu: The Field of Fashion, Agnès Rocamora, University of the Arts London, UK16. Jacques Derrida: Fashion under Erasure, Alison Gill, Western Sydney University, Australia17. Edward Said: Orientalism, Fashion, and the Cultures of Imperialism, Reina Lewis, London College of Fashion, UK18. Bruno Latour: Actor-Network-Theory and Fashion, Joanne Entwistle, King’s College London, UK19. bell hooks: Cultural Differences and Racial Justice in Fashion, Tanveer Ahmed, University of the Arts London, UK20. Judith Butler: Fashion and Performativity, Elizabeth Wissinger, City University of New York, USAAbout the authorsIndex

Rocamora and Smelik have done an outstanding job in compiling an enlightening and insightful book that covers a wide range of important thinkers and explores their theoretical and conceptual relevance in fashion research. The second edition includes scholars, such W.E.B. Du Bois, Edward Said, and bell hooks, whose works have been key to theories of race and postcolonialism, and their analytical frameworks on diversity, inclusion, and social justice, help us deconstruct the Eurocentric viewpoints of fashion. This book is an important resource and essential reading for professors, researchers, and students who are interested in ‘thinking through fashion’ critically and theoretically.