Volume 1, Issue 1

Letter from the
Co-Editors

BY BEN BARRY AND ALISON MATTHEWS DAVID

Two years ago, we decided to stop lamenting the problems with the system of journal publishing in fashion and change it.

Detail of laser etching used in artwork entitled Internal. Ketzia Sherman, Internal and External, laser-etched wood.

Making Research: An Analysis of Arts-Based Practices in the Academic Process, A Case Study of Methods of Inscription

By Ketzia Sherman

Badly damaged cotton corset from the collection of Lois Davidson at the University of Brighton Dress History Teaching Collection.

The Several Lives of a Collection of Rag Dump Clothing from Normandy (1900–55): From Farm, to Dump, to Poverty Chic

By Lou Taylor

Audrey Hepburn.

Fashion/Photo/Film: The Intertextual Discourse of Funny Face (1956)

BY PAUL JOBLING

Eldridge Cleaver standing with mannequins, wearing pants designed to emphasize his genitals.

Re-Dressing Race and Gender: The Performance and Politics of Eldridge Cleaver’s Pants

BY ART BLAKE

Installation of two plaster hands suspended by wire, created by ensæmble.

A Fashion Exhibit Without Fashion

BY JENNIFER AYRES

Street style photograph of Mari Malek, fifteenth street in New York.

Post No Bill: The Transience of New York City Street Style

By Brent Luvaas

Wheel-chair user on the runway, as part of "Refashioning Masculinity", a collaborative fashion show directed by Dr. Ben Barry.

Enclothed Knowledge: The Fashion Show as a Method of Dissemination in Arts-Informed Research

By Ben Barry

Madeleine Vionnet seated using a small mannequin to create a dress.

Body Doubles: The Origins of the Fashion Mannequin

By Alison Matthews David

Contact sheet from a Toni Frissell photoshoot in Bermuda.

Behind the Scenes with Louise Dahl-Wolfe and Toni Frissell: Alternative Views of Fashion Photography in Mid-Century America

BY REBECCA ARNOLD

Illustration by Mike Thompson of two figures, one wearing a pussyhat and the other a Black Lives Matter jacket.

An Interview with The Fashion Studies Journal

BY JACLYN MARCUS

Engraved fashion plate from Journal des Dames et des Modes.

Ogling, Quizzing, and Spying: The Eyeglass

By Susan Vincent

Wardrobe of co-author Julia Yates.

Flourishing Fashion: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of the Experience of Wearing a Happy Outfit

BY REBECCA SMITH AND JULIA YATES

Fashion illustration from Gazette du bon ton.

Figurative Mobility: Veiling, Orientalism, and Unknowing Women in US Vogue, 1917–25

BY ILYA PARKINS

Petra E. Lewis dons her natural hair in the workplace

Let My Hair Be Me: An Investigation of Employee Authenticity and Organizational Appearance Policies Through the Lens of Black Women’s Hair

BY TINA OPIE

Volume 1, Issue 2

Grey suede heel with metal studs by Christian Louboutin, Fall two-thousand-seven.

Status, Votive Luxury, and Labour: The Female Rapper’s Delight

BY NIGEL LEZAMA

Kimberly Jenkins delivering her lecture "Unleash the Power of Fashion to Challenge Racism" at Diversity Now! in 2018.

Review: Diversity NOW! Fashion & Race with Kimberly Jenkins

BY JACLYN MARCUS

Installation of mannequins wearing a variety of modest fashions as part of the exhibition Contemporary Muslim Fashions.

Contemporizing Modesty

BY ROMANA B. MIRZA

Diagram of The Apparel Body Construct by Marilyn Revell DeLong.

Clothing Fit Issues for Trans People

BY ANDREW REILLY, JORY M. CATALPA, AND JENIFER K. MCGUIRE