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Personal Fashion Blogs: Screens and Mirrors in Digital Self-portraits

Agnès Rocamora Agnès Rocamora is a Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Studies at the University of the Arts London. She is the author of Fashioning the City: Paris, Fashion and the Media (2009), and has published widely on the fields of fashion and the fashion media. [email protected]
Pages 407-424 | Published online: 21 Apr 2015

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