Books like The face of fashion by Jennifer Craik

Explores how clothing signals identity, culture, and social status, charting the rise and fall of fashion trends and the industry’s response to changing cultural forces.

A concise, critical survey of clothing’s social, historical, and cultural trajectories, from seventeenth‑century innovations to modern trends, with detailed anecdotes and contextual analysis.

Fashion Cultures Revisited offers 26 fresh chapters that trace how fashion culture has evolved from 2000 to today, examining shopping, media, production, icons, and gender dynamics within global contexts.

An in‑depth examination of how the human body is central to contemporary social theory, drawing on naturalistic, constructivist and feminist perspectives and highlighting the work of Bourdieu and Elias.

"This text reprints classic fashion writings of which have had a profound if perhaps untrumpted impact on our understanding and approach to modern day dress - from the psychology of clothes through to collective fashion trends."--BOOK JACKET.

"How has the fashion industry responded to turn-of-the-millennium non-binary identities? Do they have a supportive or exploitative relationship with queer, trans and ageing subjects? Fashion, Identity, Image unpacks these questions and many more in relation to clothing and representation, identity and body politics in British, European and American culture between 1990 and 2020. Jobling, Nesbitt and Wong explore issues of intersectionality and inclusivity through groundbreaking shows, including Maria Grazia Chiuri's 'We Should All Be Feminists' catwalk show for Dior (Spring-Summer 2017), Alexander McQueen's 'The Widows of Culloden' collection (Fall-Winter 2006), and the role of transgender models such as Oslo Grace since 2015. Looking to the future of our relationship with fashion, there's also an investigation of the android as a redemptive figure in Alessandro Michele's cross-cultural cyborg collection for Gucci (Autumn-Winter 2018/2019) and the impact of the ageing population with analysis of age and memory in work such as Magali Nougarède's Crossing the Line (2002), and pleasure and morality in fashion publicity since the 1990s for the likes of Calvin Klein, D&G and American Apparel."--