Synopses & Reviews
Special issue on methodology
Christopher Breward: Cultures, Identities, Histories
Aileen Ribeiro: Re-Fashioning Art: Some Visual Approaches to the Study of History of Dress
Valerie Steele: A Museum of Fashion is More Than a Clothes-Bag
Lou Taylor: Doing the Laundry?: A Reassessment of Object-based Dress History
Carol Tulloch: "Out of Many, One People": The Relativity of Dress, Race and Ethnicity to Jamaica, 1880-1907
John Styles: Dress in History: Reflections on a Contested Terrain
Synopsis
Highlights in issue 3 include Rodmania, an essay on Dennis Rodman, by James C. Hall, University of Illinois at Chicago, and an article on abjection and identity in contemporary fashion photography by Paul Jobley, Kingston University, UK. Issue 4 is a special issue on Dress and Methodology in which contributors from a range of disciplines, including art history, dress history, cultural studies, and race and ethnic studies, will discuss how their disciplinary methodology enriches the study of dress and fashion.
About the Author
Valerie Steele is Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.