Fashion Theory

期刊简介：The importance of studying the body as a site for the deployment of discourses is well-established in a number of disciplines. By contrast, the study of fashion has, until recently, suffered from a lack of critical analysis. Increasingly, however, scholars have recognized the cultural significance of self-fashioning, including not only clothing but also such body alterations as tattooing and piercing. Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of “fashion” as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. It provides an interdisciplinary forum for the rigorous analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from footbinding to fashion advertising.

【译文】研究身体作为话语部署场所的重要性在许多学科中都得到了充分证实。相比之下，直到最近，时尚研究一直缺乏批判性分析。然而，越来越多的学者认识到自我塑造的文化意义，不仅包括服装，还包括纹身和穿孔等身体改变。时尚理论将“时尚”定义为体现身份的文化建构作为其出发点。它为严格分析从缠足到时尚广告等文化现象提供了一个跨学科论坛。