Insights on Fashion Journalism

This collection surveys the key debates and issues that currently face fashion journalism, going beyond traditional print media to consider its multiple contexts and iterations in an ever-evolving post-digital media environment.

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Dr Rosie Findlay is Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Kent and has published widely on digital and print fashion media, postfeminist consumer culture, and embodiment and dress. Her monograph Personal Style Blogs: Appearances that Fascinate was published in 2017.

Johannes Reponen is a Director of Post-Graduate Programmes; Academic Affairs; Research & Knowledge Exchange at Condé Nast College of Fashion and Design in London. His research centres on fashion journalism, criticism and media.

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Introduction

Rosie Findlay and Johannes Reponen

Section One: Make It Work

1. From Typewriter to Smartphone: How Changing Capture and Delivery Systems Have Influenced the Practice of Fashion Journalism

Josephine Collins

2. The Politics of Fashion Criticism: How Newspaper Journalists' Evaluative Criteria for Fashion Changed Between 1949 and 2010 Aurélie Van de Peer

3. KPI-Chasers, Content Farmers, and "Slashers": New Challenges to Hong Kong Fashion Journalists in the Digital Age

Tommy Tse and Gloria Lam

4. A Wealth of Feedback: Interview with Sarah Shannon, Editorial Director of Vogue Business

Johannes Reponen

5. Mode and Mode: Fashion Publishing in the Margins

Laura Gardner

Section Two: Fashion Speaks

6. Reporting Fashion: Fashioning Moving Images from Newsfilms to Webseries

Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén

7. Dazed Media: Making an Impact

Priya Matadeen

8. How the East Was Worn: Negotiating National Heritage in the First Issues of Vogue Ukraine and Vogue Russia

Jana Melkumova-Reynolds

9. Fashion for a Cause: Crafting an Image of Authenticity and Wellbeing in Indian Fashion Magazines

Arti Sandhu

Section Three: Matters of Style

10. What a Difference a Page Makes: Contextualising Suzy Menkes' Fashion Criticism Within and Across Media Outlets

Katie Baker Jones

11. Dapper Kid: Blogging Menswear

Syed Ahsan Abbas

12. Fashion as Mood, Style as Atmosphere: Literary Non-Fiction Fashion Writing on SSENSE and in London Review of Looks

Rosie Findlay

13. Talking Fashion

Jason Campbell and Henrietta Gallina; Lucy Clayton and Benjamin Linley Wild; and Marc Raco