This 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 how language is employed in different media.
Approaching fashion journalism through a critically diverse lens, this collection is an asset for academics and students in the fields of fashion studies, journalism, communication, cultural studies and digital media.
Author(s): Rosie Findlay and Johannes Reponen
Series: Journalism Insights
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 202
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction
SECTION I: Make It Work
1 From Typewriter to Smartphone: How Changing Capture and Delivery Systems Have Influenced the Practice of Fashion Journalism
2 The Politics of Fashion Criticism: How Newspaper Journalists’ Evaluative Criteria for Fashion Changed Between 1949 and 2010
3 KPI-Chasers, Content Farmers and “Slashers”: New Challenges to Hong Kong Fashion Journalists in the Digital Age
4 A Wealth of Feedback: Interview with Sarah Shannon, Editorial Director of Vogue Business
5 Mode and Mode: Fashion Publishing in the Margins
SECTION II: Fashion Speaks
6 Reporting Fashion: Fashioning Moving Images from Newsreels to Web Series
7 Dazed Media: Making an Impact
8 How The East Was Worn: Negotiating National Heritage in the First Issues of Vogue Ukraine and Vogue Russia
9 Fashion for a Cause: Crafting an Image of Authenticity and Well-being in Indian Fashion Magazines
SECTION III: Matters of Style
10 What a Difference a Page Makes: Contextualising Suzy Menkes’ Fashion Criticism Within and Across Media Outlets
11 Dapper Kid: Blogging Menswear
12 Fashion as Mood, Style as Atmosphere: Literary Non-Fiction Fashion Writing on SSENSE and in London Review of Looks
13 Talking Fashion
Index
