This volume brings together academics from various disciplines – philosophy, sociology, medicine, anthropology, psychology and psychiatry – to examine fashion’s complex relationship with post-industrial societies. Herein the authors address, from the standpoint of their respective disciplines, what crucial functions fashion fulfils in the modern world, especially as it relates to the construction and deconstruction of the self.
Berg Publishers have republished the earlier volume Fashion and Identity: A Multidisciplinary Approach, fruit of the 2004 Fashion, Image and Identity Experts Meeting. This new book, in addition to the chapters in the original volume, includes a new preface by Joanne Finklestein of the University of Greenwich, and a chapter by Efrat Tseëlon (University of Leeds) entitled “How Successful is Communication via Clothing? Thoughts and Evidence on an Unexamined Paradigm.”
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