In Louise Crewe's extraordinary new book, fashion becomes the privileged lens through which to explore how we inhabit, interpret and understand the modern world's geography. The Geographies of Fashion opens up a broader unexplored spatial landscape to question and investigate notions of habitation, intimacy, memory and identity.
Francesca Murialdo, Middlesex University, UK. A much-needed analysis from a highly respected ... Read moreauthor, which explores the spatial dimension of fashion through carefully chosen case studies and examples. Both clear and insightful, it will be key reading for students interested in fashion, consumption, and cultural geography.
Joanne Entwistle, Kings College London, UK. A vital intervention in fashion scholarship from a cultural geographer whose writing here - as always - both ranges across and carefully brings together scholarship from different disciplines.
Pamela Church Gibson, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK. Combining contemporary theoretical approaches with a cutting-edge analysis of international fashion brands and institutions including Maison Martin Margiela, Zara, Louis Vuitton, ASOS and Savile Row,The Geographies of Fashion is essential reading for students of fashion, geography and related disciplines including sociology, architecture and design.
ADDRESS: Journal for Fashion Criticism
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