The fashion media is in the midst of deep social and technological change. Including a broad range of case studies from fashion plates to fashion films and from fashion magazines to fashion blogs this ground-breaking book provides an up-to-date examination of the role and significance of this field.<br/><br/>Winner of the PCA/ACA Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection <i>Fashion Media</i> includes chapters written by international scholars covering topics from historic magazine cultures and contemporary digital innovations to art and film exploring themes such as gender ethnicity design taste and authorship.<br/><br/>Highlighting the complexity of processes that bind design design technology society and identity together <i>Fashion Media</i> will be of be essential reading for students of fashion studies cultural studies visual culture studies design history communications and art and design practice and theory.