Publisher's Synopsis
Special Issue: Vogue fashion magazineThis special issue traces the evolution of the classic fashion magazine Vogue. Conekin and de la Haye have assembled a wide range of articles, from Vogue's debut and the Bloomsbury years through Lee Miller and World War II, to contemporary issues in the US, Italy, France, Britain, Japan and Russia.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 MLA (Modern Language Association) Bibliography
