Book Description
Beatrix Bastl: Clothing the Living and the Dead: Memory, Social Identity and Aristocratic Habit in the Early Modern Habsburg Empire

Penny Edwards: Restyling Colonial Cambodia (1860-1954): French Dressing, Indigenous Custom and National Costume

Ragnar Johnson: The Anthropological Study of Body Decoration as Art: Collective Representations and the Somatization of Affect

Efrat Tseelon: Fashion Research and Its Discontents

Eugenia Paulicelli: Book Review: Reconstructing Italian Fashion: America and the Development of the Italian Fashion Industry by Nicola White

Andrew Hill: Book Review: Cool Rules: Anatomy of an Attitude by Dick Pountain and David Robins

Nell Irvin Painter: Book Review: Stylin’: African American Expressive Culture from Its Beginnings by Shane White and Graham White

Cathy Taylor: Exhibition Review: Fashion Lives. The Goldstein: A Museum of Design, University of Minnesota

Call for Papers: Uniforms for Civilans: On the History of Uniforms as Symbolic Communication


About the Author
Valerie Steele is Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Fashion Theory is heavily illustrated and will include book and exhibition reviews. Features for Volume 5, Issues 3 and 4 will include: —The Enchanted Spectacle

Caroline Evans —Off the Wall

The Development of Robert Kushner's Fashion and Performance Art, 1970-1976

Catherine Morris and Dara Meyers-Kingsley —The Greatest Show on Earth

The Contemporary Fashion Show and Its Relationship to Performance Art

Ginger Gregg Duggan —Very Good Dress

Bruce Hainley