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.
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Usage
180K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.7 (2023) Impact Factor
0.9 (2023) 5 year IF
2.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.355 (2023) SNIP
0.417 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
77 days avg. from submission to first
decision
133 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
18 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
16% acceptance rate
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Editors-in-Chief Valerie Steele, Director, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, USA e-mail: [email protected] Peter McNeil, University of Technology Sydney, Australia e-mail: [email protected]
Exhibitions Reviews Editor Hazel Clark, Parsons School of Design, USA e-mail: [email protected]
Book Reviews Editor Peter McNeil, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Editorial Advisory Board Liudmila Aliabieva, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia Christopher Breward, University of Edinburgh, UK Patrizia Calefato, University of Bari, Italy Hazel Clark, Parsons: The New School, USA Judith Clark, London College of Fashion, UK Kaat Debo, MoMu Fashion Museum Antwerp, Belgium Joanne B. Eicher, University of Minnesota, USA Caroline Evans, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, UK Francesca Granata, Parsons The New School, USA Amy de la Haye, Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Dress History & Curatorship, London College of Fashion and Joint Director (with Professor Judith Clark) of the University of the Arts Research Centre for Fashion Curation, UK Vicki Karaminas, Massey University, New Zealand Yuniya Kawamura, Fashion Institute of Technology, USA Nathalie Khan, Central Saint Martins, UK Dorothy Ko, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA Reina Lewis, London College of Fashion, UAL, UK Wessie Ling, London Metropolitan University, UK John S. Major, The China Institute, USA Peter McNeil , University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Patricia Mears , The Fashion Institute of Technology, USA Alistair O’Neill, Central Saint Martins, UK Alexandra Palmer, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada Marco Pecorari, Parsons Paris, France Nicole Pellegrin, Institut d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, CNRS, France Regina A. Root, The College of William and Mary, USA Simona Segre Reinach, University of Bologna, Italy Ulinka C. Rublack, University of Cambridge, UK Jonathan Michael Square, Parsons: The New School, USA Sonnet Stanfill, Victoria & Albert Museum, UK Emma Tarlo, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Lou Taylor, University of Brighton, UK Olga Vainshtein, Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia Barbara Vinken, University of Munich, Germany Claire Wilcox, Victoria & Albert Museum,UK, and London College of Fashion, UK Elizabeth Wilson, London College of Fashion, UK
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