Table of Contents

Preface
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction: Status Ambivalence and Fashion Flows
Chapter 2: Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Fashion and Time
Chapter 3: Perfectly Wrong
Chapter 4: Copy Chic and the Ambivalent Original
Chapter 5: Sartorial Shrugs and Other Fashion Understatements
Chapter 6: Not So Fast Fashion: The New Perseverance
Chapter 7: The Devil's Playground: Fashioning Subcultural Identity
Chapter 8: Trans-Global Narratives
Chapter 9: Fashioning Zeitgeist

Afterword
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

Revaluates the concept of sartorial displays of identity in the 21st century fashion system, exploring the ways in which the globalised, digital world of fast fashion has created an era of 'status ambivalence' for the way we dress

About the Author

Maria Mackinney-Valentin is an Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design, Denmark.

Reviews

Fashioning Identity provides fresh and compelling insights into fashion as a form of identity, both individually and collectively, across cultures from Copenhagen to Kenya. Offering insightful analysis and grounded case studies of contemporary fashion trends, from normcore and counterfeit fashion to the ubiquity of leopard print and soccer shirts, the book illustrates the universal symbolic construction of identity through fashion. This is a must-read and valuable companion for students and scholars of fashion alike.
*Anne Peirson-Smith, City University of Hong Kong*

Fashioning Identity provides a highly accessible, straightforward and original account of the central issues surrounding identity in fashion, from heavy metal bands to globalized soccer uniforms. This book will be of interest and use to all students of the subject.
*Malcolm Barnard, Loughborough University*