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Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty 13.1 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty 13.1 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘Curatorial Reflections’

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Aims & Scope

Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty (CSFB) engages analytically, critically and creatively with fashion and/or beauty. At times lumped together conceptually into ‘the fashion-beauty complex’, this journal acknowledges the problems associated with collapsing these terms, such as: (a) the conflation of fashion and beauty, concepts which encompass varying degrees and types of agency, change and dynamism; (b) the implicit reinforcement of white hegemonic femininity (and hence, the exclusion of masculinities, people of colour, older adults, differentially abled individuals, and queer and transgender subjectivities); and (c) the blurring of distinct industries. At the same time, the body is the centrepiece of fashion and beauty alike – in cultural representation as well as in everyday life. CSFB seeks to foster more diverse and inclusive ways of understanding the embodiment of aesthetics and politics. It does so by dismantling hegemonic assumptions and propelling fresh theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of fashion and/or beauty.

Issue 13.1

Editorial Foreword

Editorial foreword to the Special Issue on ‘Curatorial Reflections’

SUSAN B. KAISER AND ANNEKE SMELIK

Introduction

Curatorial reflections in North American university fashion collections: Challenging the canon

DENISE NICOLE GREEN AND KELLY L. REDDY-BEST

Articles

Curating costumes from many lands: Addressing the colonial gaze in two university dress collections through digital curation

LYNDA MAY XEPOLEAS AND EMILY HAYFLICK

Curating Dior to Disco: Extrapolating complex narratives from existing objects

JEAN E. MCELVAIN AND CAREN S. OBERG