Offers the first edited collection with an explicit documentary focus on fashion icons events cultures and industriesInvestigates the bearings of the documentary image and its visual politics in relation to fashionPushes forward new understandings of how different media and platforms such as documentary feature films television factual programmes online videos fashion exhibitions edutainment and industrial films interrogate the real in relation to fashionConsiders a wide range of both contemporary and historical case studies including analysis of fashion documentaries fashion series on television and online videos including Queer Eye 2018 Follow Me 2017 Bill Cunningham New York 2010 and McQueen 2018 Includes two expanding interviews one with Alexandra Palmer senior fashion curator at Royal Ontario Museum Toronto and one with Lorna Tucker director of Westwood Punk Icon Activists 2018 Feuds within fashion houses megalomaniacs and photoshoot nightmares fashion and drama have been a perfect match for decades Over the past ten years we have witnessed a boom of documentaries about fashion magazine editors fashion and media politics and the history of fashion houses How and why did fashion documentaries and non fiction media become so popular Documenting Fashion explores and reassesses the role of documentary media by tracing its history in shaping our understanding of fashion across multiple platforms and different national contexts including industrial films newsreels TV shows documentary films digital media and photography The essays in this collection underpin and profile a scholarly space in which a dialogue between fashion and documentary studies can evolve by drawing from different methodologies and approaches such as media and cultural studies ethnography archival and museum studies gender studies marketing and public relations

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