Insights on Fashion Journalism - Paperback

by Rosie Findlay (Editor), Johannes Reponen (Editor)

This collection surveys the key debates and issues that currently face fashion journalism, going beyond traditional print media to consider its multiple contexts and iterations in an ever-evolving post-digital media environment.

Bringing together a diverse range of contributors, Insights on Fashion Journalism explores the characteristics, complexities, shifts and specificities of the field. The book is organized into three sections, mapping fashion journalism's established and emerging practices and exploring its parameters from mainstream to marginal. Section One focuses on the complex relationships between those who practice fashion journalism, the fashion industry and the media context in which they operate; Section Two considers the ways in which fashion journalism responds to the socio-political and cultural contexts in which it is created, as well as the impact these contexts have on tone, content and style; and Section Three investigates how language is employed in different media.

Approaching fashion journalism through a critically diverse lens, this collection is an asset for academics and students in the fields of fashion studies, journalism, communication, cultural studies and digital media.

Author Biography

Dr Rosie Findlay is Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Kent and has published widely on digital and print fashion media, postfeminist consumer culture, and embodiment and dress. Her monograph Personal Style Blogs: Appearances that Fascinate was published in 2017.

Johannes Reponen is a Director of Post-Graduate Programmes; Academic Affairs; Research & Knowledge Exchange at Condé Nast College of Fashion and Design in London. His research centres on fashion journalism, criticism and media.