Donna MacDonald reviews the latest text by Rebecca C. Tuite, outlining Vogue magazine’s year under the leadership of former editor Jessica Daves.
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Book Review: Teaching Fashion Studies
Between a global pandemic and surge in conversations around racial equality, the need to reassess how we teach fashion feels more urgent than ever.
Book Review: Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy: From Sprezzatura to Satire
Ludovica Mucci reviews Eugenia Paulichelli’s Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy: From Sprezzatura to Satire. The text is one of the first comprehensive studies of sixteenth and seventeenth century Italian fashion, exploring the way fashion shaped the social, political, and cultural landscape in Italy.
Book Review: Work! A Queer History of Modeling
In this thoroughly researched and accessibly written book, Elspeth H. Brown artfully weaves several narratives together to present a unique history of twentieth-century American culture and capitalism. Fundamentally, she argues that capitalist heteronormativity has been shaped largely by queer sensibilities.
Book Review: Legendary Artists and the Clothes They Wore
Eanna Morrison Barrs reviews Terry Newman’s Legendary Artists and the Clothes They Wore, a text exploring the complex relationships notable visual artists in the twentieth century had with their clothes.
Book Review: The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good
Emilia J. Boulton reviews Elizabeth L. Cline’s latest book, The Conscious Closet, a guide to exploring ethical fashion.
Book Review: ISSUES: A History of Photography in Fashion Magazines
Marley Healy reviews Issues: A History of Photography in Fashion Magazines, Vince Aletti’s latest tome, exploring the 100 best fashion photographs seen in magazines.
Book Review: When Études Become Form
An extension of the way Études muses on the significance of banal objects and cultural phenomena when they are taken out of context, When Études Become Form is a phenomenological study of Études itself, incorporating interviews with collaborative artists and process-intensive works which expound on the nature of close study.
Book Review: Managing Costume Collections: An Essential Primer
By Louise Coffey-Webb
Book Review: Reigning Men: Fashion In Menswear
By Sharon Sadako Takeda et. al
Book Review: Empire of Cotton: A Global History
By Sven Beckert
Book Review: The Suit: Form, Function and Style
By Christopher Breward
Book Review: Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress
By Anne Hollander
Book Review: A Life in Fashion: The Wardrobe of Cecil Beaton
By Benjamin Wild
Book Review: Philosophical Perspectives on Fashion
Edited by Giovanni Matteucci, Stefano Marino
Book Review: Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body
By Francesca Granata
Book Review: 19th-Century Fashion in Detail
By Lucy Johnston with Marion Kite and Helen Persson
Book Review: Seven Sisters Style
By Rebecca C. Tuite
Book Review: How to Read a Dress
By Lydia Edwards