Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty and Style

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Interdisciplinary Press Global Interdisciplinary Research Studies series

Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty, and Style, part of the Global Interdisciplinary Research Studies series, Oxford, UK, is a triple blind peer reviewed inter- and trans-disciplinary academic journal, published twice a year that emphasizes theoretical and methodological analyses of fashion, beauty, style. Lavishly illustrated in color and black/white with high production values, Catwalk publishes articles focused on the historical, social, cultural, psychological, political, business, media, technology, performance, representational, and artistic dimensions of fashion, beauty, and style. Our starting point is that these lie at the very heart of persons, their sense of identity and individual expressiveness, and influence the communities and world in which they live. Core themes explored by the journal include: the history of fashion-beauty-style; fashion and art; fashion and literature; the politics of fashion; the dressed and undressed body; performance and self-fashioning; adulated, marginal, and deviant bodies; fashion designers; street fashion and style trends; popular culture; the social construction of glamour, celebrity and icons; the influence of race, ethnicity, nation, class, age, gender, and sexuality on identity and discourses about and representations of fashion-beauty-style; the history of fashion and beauty; fashion photography, museum curatorship and exhibition making focused on fashion-beauty; fashion communication and technology; the fashion industrial consumer complex; business of fashion; fashion cities and regions; and developments in fashionable wearables and sustainable fashion.