Insights on Fashion Journalism
Routledge, 2022 | ISBN 9780367476540
Edited by Rosie Findlay and Johannes Reponen, this collection brings together academics and media professionals to survey the key debates and issues that face contemporary fashion journalism, going beyond traditional print media to consider its multiple contexts and iterations in an ever-evolving media environment.
The book maps fashion journalism’s established and emerging practices and explores 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.
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Table of Contents
Introduction, Rosie Findlay and Johannes Reponen
Section One: Make It Work
From Typewriter to Smartphone: How Changing Capture and Delivery Systems Have Influenced the Practice of Fashion Journalism, Josephine Collins
The Politics of Fashion Criticism: How Newspaper Journalists’ Evaluative Criteria for Fashion Changed Between 1949-2010, Aurelie Van de Peer
KPI-Chasers, Content Farmers, and "Slashers": New Challenges to Hong Kong Fashion Journalists in the Digital Age, Tommy Tse and Gloria Lam
A Wealth of Feedback: Interview with Sarah Shannon, Editorial Director of Vogue Business, Johannes Reponen
Mode and Mode: Fashion Publishing in the Margins, Laura Gardner
Section Two: Fashion Speaks
Reporting Fashion: Fashioning Moving Images from Newsfilms to Webseries, Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén
Dazed Media: Making an Impact, Priya Matadeen
How the East Was Worn: Negotiating National Heritage in the First Issues of Vogue Ukraine and Vogue Russia, Jana Melkumova-Reynolds
Fashion for a Cause: Crafting an Image of Authenticity and Wellbeing in Indian Fashion Magazines, Arti Sandhu
Section Three: Matters of Style
What a Difference a Page Makes: Contextualising Suzy Menkes’ Fashion Criticism Within and Across Media Outlets, Katie Baker Jones
Dapper Kid: Blogging Menswear, Syed Ahsan Abbas
Fashion as Mood, Style as Atmosphere: Literary Non-Fiction Fashion Writing on SSENSE and in London Review of Looks, Rosie Findlay
Talking Fashion:
i. ‘The Conversations’, Jason Campbell and Henrietta Gallina
ii. ‘Dress Fancy’, Lucy Clayton and Benjamin Linley Wild
iii. ‘Fashion Is Your Business’, Marc Raco
Index