title: Fashion Theory Volume 12 Issue 2: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture
author: Alistair O'Neill
description: <DIV><DIV>&#8220;Fashion Theory is needed to help students and professionals understand that fashion has meaning as well as form.&#8221;--Vivienne Westwood<BR>&#8220;For those who dismiss fashion as frivolous, here's proof otherwise.&#8221;--Harper's Bazaar<BR>&#8220;A fine addition to academic institutions with cultural studies programs; essential for those with special collections in fashion and costume.&#8221;--Library Journal<BR>&#8220;Fashion Theory is both chic and serious - yes, and sexy, too. There is much here to interest students of art, history, design, cultural studies, sociology, art history and anthropology.&#8221;--Times Higher Education Supplement<BR>&#8220;Way deeper than your average issue of Vogue. Essential reading for students and fashion historians.&#8221;--The Guardian<BR>&#8220;Fascinating to serious fashion and anthropology students.&#8221;--Time Out<BR>&#8220;Fashion Theory makes an important and valuable contribution. Berg are to be congratulated on having found a gap in the market that much needed filling ... Handsomely produced on quality paper, with sharply-focused black and white illustrations ... A stylish and high-quality publication."--Costume<BR>&#8220;Finally fashion has managed to shed its aura of ephemerality and to push into respectable society. It is currently regarded as one of the hottest media.&#8221;--Die Zeit<BR>&#8220;Edited by the astute fashion historian Valerie Steele, the journal sets out to prove that fashion resonates in our culture.&#8221;--The Washington Post</DIV><DIV>"Fashion Theory has established itself as an international forum for analysing the significance of fashion."--Vogue Magazine</DIV></DIV>
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