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Book SynopsisThis 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
Table of Contents
Introduction
Rosie Findlay and Johannes Reponen
Section One: Make It Work
1. From Typewriter to Smartphone: How Changing Capture and Delivery Systems Have Influenced the Practice of Fashion Journalism
Josephine Collins
2. The Politics of Fashion Criticism: How Newspaper Journalists’ Evaluative Criteria for Fashion Changed Between 1949 and 2010 Aurélie Van de Peer
3. KPI-Chasers, Content Farmers, and "Slashers": New Challenges to Hong Kong Fashion Journalists in the Digital Age
Tommy Tse and Gloria Lam
4. A Wealth of Feedback: Interview with Sarah Shannon, Editorial Director of Vogue Business
Johannes Reponen
5. Mode and Mode: Fashion Publishing in the Margins
Laura Gardner
Section Two: Fashion Speaks
6. Reporting Fashion: Fashioning Moving Images from Newsfilms to Webseries
Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén
7. Dazed Media: Making an Impact
Priya Matadeen
8. How the East Was Worn: Negotiating National Heritage in the First Issues of Vogue Ukraine and Vogue Russia
Jana Melkumova-Reynolds
9. Fashion for a Cause: Crafting an Image of Authenticity and Wellbeing in Indian Fashion Magazines
Arti Sandhu
Section Three: Matters of Style
10. What a Difference a Page Makes: Contextualising Suzy Menkes’ Fashion Criticism Within and Across Media Outlets
Katie Baker Jones
11. Dapper Kid: Blogging Menswear
Syed Ahsan Abbas
12. Fashion as Mood, Style as Atmosphere: Literary Non-Fiction Fashion Writing on SSENSE and in London Review of Looks
Rosie Findlay
13. Talking Fashion
Jason Campbell and Henrietta Gallina; Lucy Clayton and Benjamin Linley Wild; and Marc Raco
