Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture

Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of 'fashion' as
the cultural construction of the embodied identity. The importance of
studying the body as a site for the deployment of discourses has been
well established in a number of disciplines. Until Fashion Theory's
launch 12 years ago the dressed body had suffered from a lack of
critical analysis. Increasingly scholars have recognized the cultural
significance of self-fashioning, including not only clothing but also
such body alterations as tattooing and piercing.
Fashion Theory provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for
the rigorous analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot-binding to
fashion advertising.

Special Issue: Exhibitionism

Edited by Valerie Steele and Alexandra Palmer

Volume 12 Issue 1

March 2008

Contents

Letter from the Editor
Valerie Steele and Alexandra Palmer

Museum Quality: The Rise of the Fashion Exhibition
Valerie Steele

Untouchable: Creating Desire and Knowledge in Museum Costume
and Textile Exhibitions
Alexandra Palmer

"We're Not in the Fashion Business": Fashion in the Museum and
the Academy
Peter McNeil

Between the Museum and the Academy: Fashion Research and its
Constituencies
Christopher Breward

Exhibiting Asia: The Global Impact of Japanese Fashion in
Museums and Galleries
Patricia Mears

Reviewing Fashion Exhibitions
Alexandra Palmer

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