TY - JOUR
T1 - Academic writing in the fashion studies
AU - Mora, Emanuela
AU - Rocamora, Agnes
AU - Volonte', Paolo Gaetano
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The theme of writing has particular importance in the context of fashion
studies. Roland Barthes noted already in the middle of the last century that
‘as soon as we observe Fashion, we discover that writing appears constitutive’
(1967: 15). He was referring to the paradoxical phenomenon whereby words
play a central role in constructing the meaning of fashion as it is produced
and experienced. His consideration can be applied a fortiori to social studies
on fashion.
Like all the other disciplines in the system of western academic knowledge,
fashion studies too makes claims to a theoretical and empirical rigour that
should be reflected in how knowledge is communicated through writing in
books and articles. Like other objects of study, fashion requires the capacity
to analyse and write about it in accordance with established criteria. This is a
principle that is beginning to spread in our sector as well. Particularly current,
for example, is the debate on fashion criticism, its forms, and the process of
legitimacy that it has undergone in recent decades (Granata 2013; McNeil and
Miller 2014).
The theme of writing acquires special importance when fashion is
addressed at academic level because the field of fashion studies is structurally
interdisciplinary and is effectively multicultural.
AB - The theme of writing has particular importance in the context of fashion
studies. Roland Barthes noted already in the middle of the last century that
‘as soon as we observe Fashion, we discover that writing appears constitutive’
(1967: 15). He was referring to the paradoxical phenomenon whereby words
play a central role in constructing the meaning of fashion as it is produced
and experienced. His consideration can be applied a fortiori to social studies
on fashion.
Like all the other disciplines in the system of western academic knowledge,
fashion studies too makes claims to a theoretical and empirical rigour that
should be reflected in how knowledge is communicated through writing in
books and articles. Like other objects of study, fashion requires the capacity
to analyse and write about it in accordance with established criteria. This is a
principle that is beginning to spread in our sector as well. Particularly current,
for example, is the debate on fashion criticism, its forms, and the process of
legitimacy that it has undergone in recent decades (Granata 2013; McNeil and
Miller 2014).
The theme of writing acquires special importance when fashion is
addressed at academic level because the field of fashion studies is structurally
interdisciplinary and is effectively multicultural.
KW - academic writing
KW - fashion studies
KW - internationalization
KW - academic writing
KW - fashion studies
KW - internationalization
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/101387
U2 - 10.1386/infs.2.2.159_2
DO - 10.1386/infs.2.2.159_2
M3 - Article
SN - 2051-7106
VL - 2
SP - 159
EP - 165
JO - International Journal of Fashion Studies
JF - International Journal of Fashion Studies
ER -