Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of 'fashion' as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. It provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising. All articles have solid theoretical underpinnings and are based on original research.

Indexed by the IBSS (International Bibliography of Social Sciences); the DAAI (Design and Applied Arts Index); ARTbibliographies Modern; H.W. Wilson Art Index and H.W. Wilson Omnifile Index; the Anthropological Index Online (AIO) of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; Sociological abstracts; ISI Web of Science/Arts & Humanities Citation Index and ISI Current Contents Connect/Arts & Humanities (THOMSON); and the Textile Technology Index with Fulltext

About the author

Valerie Steele is Director, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Contents

* Interview with Zowie Broach and Brian Kirkby of Boudicca
Marketa Uhlirova

* Chanel, Stravinsky, and Musical Chic
Mary Davis

* Fabricating identities: survival and the imagination in Jamaican dancehall culture
Bibi Bakare-Yusuf

* Index
Hazel Clark