Forthcoming Fashion Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Lady Gaga and Popular Music

   Performing Gender, Fashion, and Culture

   Edited by Martin Iddon, Melanie Marshall

   Series: Routledge Studies in Popular Music

   This book is a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary examination of the music and figure of Lady Gaga, combining approaches from scholars in cultural studies, dance, fashion, and music. It represents one of the first scholarly volume devoted to Lady Gaga, who has become, over a few short years, central...

   To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Fashion Cultures Revisited

   Theories, Explorations and Analysis, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Stella Bruzzi, Pamela Church Gibson

   Following on from the ground-breaking collection Fashion Cultures, this second anthology, Fashion Cultures Revisited, contains 26 newly commissioned chapters exploring fashion culture from the start of the new millennium to the present day. The book is divided into six parts, each discussing...

   To Be Published November 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Women, Beauty, and Fashion

   Edited by Monika Pietrzak-Franger

   Series: History of Feminism

   SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE! (Valid until 3 months after publication) Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse, the History of Feminism series makes key archival source material readily available to scholars, researchers, and students of women’s and gender studies, women’s history, and women’s...

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Fashion Studies Book

   By Jennifer Craik, Sharon Peoples

   The Fashion Book is an exciting, readable and comprehensive, all-in-one resource for students of fashion across the English-speaking world. It is designed as an introduction to fashion studies that can be used in a range of fashion courses from fashion studies degrees to fashion modules, and majors...

   To Be Published January 29th 2014 by Routledge
5. Fashion Theory

   An Introduction

   By Malcolm Barnard

   Books that explain and analyse the nature, production and consumption of fashion are very fashionable at present. Fashion is explained in terms of the body, or fetish, or gender or culture. Slightly less fashionable, it seems, are introductory books on the theories of fashion. All explanations and...

   To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
6. Fashion and the Consumer Revolution in Contemporary Russia

   Institutions, Identities and Everyday Life

   By Olga Gurova

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   This book explores how clothing consumption has changed in Russia in the past twenty years as capitalism has emerged in a post-socialist state, bringing with it a "consumer revolution" or possibly, the author suggests, overconsumption. It shows how there has been and continues to be a massive...

   To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge
7. Fashion Journalism

   By Julie Bradford

   Fashion Journalism is an introduction to how fashion journalism operates and how to report on fashion. It encompasses skills for print and online media, and includes both written and visual reports (video, photography). Taking a strong real world approach, this textbook includes many case studies...

   To Be Published March 31st 2014 by Routledge