'This text chronicles a period when interest in fashion studies skyrockets in both the academy and the general public, and aims to supply scholarly evidence that highlights fashion as a cultural practice worthy of critical attention. In doing this, it also provides a teaching supplement for fashion scholarship in all its attendant fields, from design and critical practice to writing, curation, conservation, as well as its intersections with art, performance and digital media... A worthy publication recalling the old adage that lacking comment there is no fashion only clothes. Ah, but clothes with such stories to tell!' -- Linda Florence Matheson, Fashion, Style & Popular Culture
