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Call for Papers: Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion

Special Issue: 'Beau Brummell'

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/critical-studies-in-mens-fashion#call-for-papers

Contributions are welcome from any discipline, including but not limited to fashion studies, anthropology, art, art history, business, consumer studies, cultural studies, economics, gender studies, history, humanities, literature, marketing, psychology, queer studies, religion, sociology and textiles. Diverse viewpoints, methods and interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged.

This special issue invites contributions which reflect and extend the discussions held at the two-day conference Beau Brummell & New Masculinities convened by the Association of Dress Historians and University of the Arts London: Central Saint Martins, 4-5 April 2024. The conference positioned Beau Brummell as a figure of discursive departure in considering how contemporary and historic masculinities have been conceptualised and reworked. This issue invites article submissions that explore reworkings in men’s fashion from Beau Brummell to the present day, considering sartorial expression and both resistant and hegemonic masculinities.

The journal will accept articles that are theoretical or empirical, from any discipline or theoretical foundation. In addition, the journal will accept related exhibition or media reviews.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

• Beau Brummell and his textual legacies

• Black dandies

• Body image

• Contemporary men’s fashion and the legacy of dandyism

• Dandyism in the age of revolution

• Dress and celebrity

• Men’s sartorial expression as cultural, social and/or political resistance

• Queer, fluid and trans masculinities

• Masculinities, fame and heroism

• Masculinities, hegemony and modernity

• Saville Row tailoring

• Menswear and migration

• Cosmetics and grooming practices

• Cultural aesthetics of masculinity

Articles will be selected on their content, scholarship, and technical quality. The content must be in line with the journals vision of advancing scholarship on men and appearance.

Journal contributors will receive a free PDF copy of their final work upon publication. Print copies of the journal may also be purchased by contributors at half price.

To submit please use the journal submissions portal and formatting guidance.

Submission deadline: 31 March 2026

This issue is guest edited by Melanie Gale Davies (m.g.davies@csm.arts.ac.uk) and Dr Emily Taylor (E.Taylor@nms.ac.uk).