'Fashion Theory is needed to help students and professionals understand that fashion has meaning as well as form.' Vivienne Westwood 'For those who dismiss fashion as frivolous, here's proof otherwise.' Harper's Bazaar 'A fine addition to academic institutions with cultural studies programs; essential for those with special collections in fashion and costume.' Library Journal 'Fashion Theory is both chic and serious - yes, and sexy, too. There is much here to interest students of art, history, design, cultural studies, sociology, art history and anthropology.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'Way deeper than your average issue of Vogue. Essential reading for students and fashion historians.' The Guardian 'Fascinating to serious fashion and anthropology students.' Time Out 'Fashion Theory makes an important and valuable contribution. Berg are to be congratulated on having found a gap in the market that much needed filling ... Handsomely produced on quality paper, with sharply-focused black and white illustrations ... A stylish and high-quality publication.' Costume 'Finally fashion has managed to shed its aura of ephemerality and to push into respectable society. It is currently regarded as one of the hottest media.' Die Zeit 'Edited by the astute fashion historian Valerie Steele, the journal sets out to prove that fashion resonates in our culture.' The Washington Post 'Fashion Theory has established itself as an international forum for analysing the significance of fashion.' Vogue Magazine

"Fashion Theory" takes as its starting point a definition of 'fashion' as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. It provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising. All articles have solid theoretical underpinnings and are based on original research. It is indexed by the IBSS (International Bibliography of Social Sciences); the DAAI (Design and Applied Arts Index); ART bibliographies Modern; Abstracts in Anthropology; the Anthropological Index Online (AIO) of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; Sociological abstracts; ISI Web of Science/Arts & Humanities Citation Index and ISI Current Contents Connect/Arts & Humanities (THOMSON); K G Saur Verlag's IBR (International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature and Social Sciences) and K G Verlag's IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on Humanities and Social Sciences).

"Fashion Theory" takes as its starting point a definition of 'fashion' as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. It provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising. All articles have solid theoretical underpinnings and are based on original research. It is indexed by the IBSS (International Bibliography of Social Sciences); the DAAI (Design and Applied Arts Index); ART bibliographies Modern; Abstracts in Anthropology; the Anthropological Index Online (AIO) of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; Sociological abstracts; ISI Web of Science/Arts & Humanities Citation Index and ISI Current Contents Connect/Arts & Humanities (THOMSON); K G Saur Verlag's IBR (International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature and Social Sciences) and K G Verlag's IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on Humanities and Social Sciences).

Valerie Steele is Director, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.