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Call for Papers: Feminism, Fashion and Flair: Confronting Hegemony with Style (8/15/08)

We are soliciting academic papers for an anthology on feminism and fashion. Fashion is a powerful way we express our politics, personalities, and preferences for who and how we love. Yet fashion can also repress freedom and sexual expression. Fashion encourages profound creativity, rebellion, and defiant self-definition while simultaneously controlling and disciplining the body. Fashion signals resistance to sexual morés and it can also promote a problematic consumer culture. Fashion creates collective identity, but also constrains individual voice. In other words, fashion contains the paradoxical potential for pleasure and subjugation, expression and conformity.

This book explores the productive tensions generated by fashion and style. We are interested in essays that take up questions of gender with special attention to race, class, sexuality, age, and ethnicity. This collection blends theory and pop culture analysis in exciting ways, focusing on contemporary trends and controversies.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

Theories of agency, style, and the presentation of self
Performing identity: race, class, gender and sexuality through style
Consumerist pleasure and anxiety
Fashion production in the context of global capital and trade
Bois, grrls, trannies and styles of queerness
Hardcore, metro, punk, and khakis: constructing masculinities through fashion
Body art and ethnic appropriations
Debates in plastic surgery and re-fashioning the body
Class identity and decorating domestic space
Feminist fashion: debates over style and politics
The ethics of green production and marketing
Everyday pornography and fashion fetish
Virtual style and online identities
Material culture and craft in a postmodern world
Slumming and radical chic: tensions of authenticity and irony
Vintage and thrift fashion: nostalgia and class signifiers
DIY Style: fashion off the corporate grid

Deadline for abstracts is August 15, 2008.

Format for abstracts: Word document, double-spaced, between 300 and 500 words. Include contact information and short bio.

Send to: FashionBook1@yahoo.com

Shira Tarrant
Assistant Professor
Women’s Studies Department
California State University, Long Beach,

and

Marjorie Jolles
Assistant Professor
Women’s & Gender Studies Program
Roosevelt University

Shira Tarrant
Women's Studies Department
California State University, Long Beach

and

Marjorie Jolles
Women's & Gender Studies Program
Roosevelt University
Email: fashionbook1@yahoo.com

and I woke up sweaty and frantic, clasping at consciousness with relief as I realised that the Awful Thing had only happened in my sleep.

I dreamt that somebody stole my shoes.

In the dream, I went to my wardrobe and found that the shoe shelves (there's another beneath the one in the picture) were bare. I headed outside and found myself following a woman who was wearing my red peep-toe sandals (front row, far right, made by Bally, bought for £2.50 in a charity shop). I yearned impotently for my shoes but had no way to recover them. My shoeless agonies became unbearable and I woke up.

I'm willing to concede that there's probably something wrong with me if my psyche's go-to image for an anxiety dream is the shoe collection. But I was still pretty happy to find them all nestled in their right place.

Avevo promesso che questo blog sarebbe stato più personale...e allora torno a postare la mia faccia ed il mio armadio nello stesso tempo!!
Vi ricordate questo look?
Ecco quello che me lo ha ispirato direttamente dal mio armadio!

I've promised that this blog would have been more personal...and so I'm back posting my face and my wardrobe all together and at the same time!
Do you remember this look?
This is what inspired me directly from my wardrobe!

Gonna usata come maglia-vestito / Skirt used as a top-dress :
comprata in un mercato a Varsavia almeno 4 anni fa / bought in a market in Warsaw 4 years ago
Cintura / Belt :
Avanzo di tessuto da un cotume di danza di mia sorella /
Pantaloncini in jeans / Jeans shorts:
comprati in un negozio cinese non lontano da casa (in realtà fanno parte di una salopette) / bought in a chinese shop not far from my house (in reality they're part of a combo-short)
Infradito / Flip flops : regalo di mia mamma / gift from my mum
Borsa / Bag : H&M
Braccialetti / Braclets : non mi ricordo(ops) / can't remember(oops)
Collana / Necklace : Fatta da me! / Made by me! 

Questa è la collana: / This is the necklace:

This is the friday outfit which I was talking about.

The blouse is from Tofu in Covent Garden, the skirt is from Warehouse, the shoes are vintage YSL and the new face is courtesy of Julie Verhoeven.

Yesterday, Dutch fashion designer Daryl van Wouw finally opened his first store in Amsterdam! You can find some pics of the opening here. Mmh, love the Dutch-style Daryl van Wouw tiles ;)

View full look book teasr on the site.

2007 Breast Cancer Survivor Logo T-Shirt
Customizable
by Marquita Lenear®

Don't forget to replace "Your Name" (without the brackets) with your actual name or the person's name who you are purchasing this t-shirt for. ; )

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Andrea Brueckner has quickly made a name for herself in the fashion world. This of course, is no surprise to those of you who are already familiar with Brueckner’s stunning and impeccably designed handbag collections. With Hollywood A-listers such as Beyonce, Lindsay Lohan and Jessica Alba toting her designs, Brueckner quickly had the rest of us lusting after her bags as well. For this Holiday season, it’s not much different — Brueckner does what she does best — creates incredibly beautiful handbags that are bound to make us go gaga all over again.

 

Brueckner’s designs, as always depict incredible detailing and construction, something that is reminiscent from her days of working with menswear tailor Craig Robinson.  Brueckner also uses the tailoring, form and pattern making skills she garnered at the Fashion Institute of Technology most extensively to date, in this particular collection.  The Aspen Lock Laser Cut Black and Gold Day to Evening bags are not just swoon worthy but also highlight her incredible talent and versatility as a designer.

 

  

The Aspen Lock Attache Embossed Croc Clutch in red and black are my other favorites in this line. Trendy yet classic, they are ideal clutches to accompany us on a night out. With the practical individual in mind, Brueckner also includes the popular Cardiff Satchel, this time in python to the Holiday collection.  Whether you are going to the gym or away on vacation, the Cardiff Satchel makes a convenient and stylish choice for an everyday bag. Brueckner is such an exciting designer — she always has a surprise or two up her sleeve and every season manages to incorporate her innovating vision to suit the style of every bagista in town. To get additional information on the Holiday 2008 collection and to shop Brueckner’s Summer and Fall lines please visit her website.

 

Heard this song from a friends myspace page ( thx matt), its been on my rotation every sinece.