The importance of studying the body as a site for the deployment of discourses is well-established. By contrast, the study of dress has traditionally suffered f

Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of 'fashion' as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. It provides an international and int

Until Fashion Theory's launch in 1997 the dressed body had suffered from a lack of critical analysis. Increasingly scholars have recognized the cultural signifi

The importance of studying the body as a site for the deployment of discourses is well-established. By contrast, the study of dress has traditionally suffered f