In occasion of the beginning of the course ‘Introduction to Fashion Studies’, Dr. Agnès Rocamora will present her last co-edited book Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015). This is the first book designed to accompany readers through the process of thinking through fashion. It aims to help them grasp both the relevance of social and cultural theory to fashion, dress, and material culture and, conversely, the relevance of those fields to social and cultural theory. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and is devoted to a key thinker, capturing the significance of their thought to the understanding of the field of fashion, while also assessing the importance of this field for a critical engagement with these thinkers’ ideas. This is a guide and reference for students and scholars in the fields of fashion, dress and material culture, the creative industries, sociology, cultural history, design and cultural studies.
Biography:
Dr. Agnès Rocamora is a Reader in Social and Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. She is the author of Fashioning the City: Paris, Fashion and the Media. Her writing on the field of fashion and on the fashion media has appeared in various journals, including Fashion Theory, Journalism Practice, Sociology, Sociétés, and the Journal of Consumer Culture. She is a co-editor of Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists, of The Handbook of Fashion Studies, and of Fashion Media: Past and Present. She is also a founder and co-editor of the International Journal of Fashion Studies and is on the editorial board of Cultural Sociology and of dObra[s]. She is currently developing her work on fashion and digital media.
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This event is organised in collaboration with fashion historian Farid Chenoune (Institut Français de la Mode – IFM) Dr. Maude Bass-Krueger (Zvi Yavetz Schol of Historical Studies), Dr. Sophie Kurkdjian (Institut d’histoire du temps present – IHTP-CNRS).
