Contributed by design, fashion studies, and anthropology scholars from Europe and the US, the 10 case studies in this volume explore aspects of fashion and its research. They examine fashion as
material culture in everyday lives in New York and London in the 20th century and people’s relationships with their clothing; researching fashion practices through ethnography, including the
New York fashion industry, street style blogs and photography in Philadelphia, model casting agencies, and fashion design education and the learning of creativity; and mixed methods research on
the experimental fashion design of Martin Margiela in the 1990s, the fashioning of masculinities in the US, fashion contradictions, and the development and editing of The Encyclopedia of World
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