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Fashion, Style & Popular Culture 8.1 is out now
Friday, March 19, 2021

Fashion, Style & Popular Culture 8.1 is out now

Intellect is pleased to announce that Fashion, Style & Popular Culture 8.1 is out now! 

 

Special Issue: ‘Black Lives Matter: Fashion, Style & Aesthetics’ 

 

All content from this issue is Open Access and available for free download. 

 

For more information about the special issue and journal, click here >> https://www.intellectbooks.com/fashion-style-popular-culture

 

Aims & Scopes

 

Fashion, Style & Popular Culture is a peer-reviewed journal specifically dedicated to the area of fashion scholarship's interfacings with popular culture. It was established to provide an interdisciplinary environment for fashion academics and practitioners to publish innovative scholarship in all aspects of fashion and popular culture relating to design, textiles, production, promotion, consumption and appearance-related products and services.

 

Issue 8.1

 

Introduction

 

Why differences matter to me

JOSEPH H. HANCOCK, II 

 

Editorial

 

Expanding the narrative: ‘Fashion, Style, Aesthetics, and #BlackLivesMatter’ 

TRAVIS D. BOYCE, LISA D. LENOIR AND WINSOME M. CHUNNU 

 

Articles

 

‘A mirror to the room’: Pyer Moss, specular strategy and Black Lives Matter 

MOLLY DESJARDINS

 

How beauty product use links to Black Lives Matter: Examining the influence of beliefs of health threats on behaviour

MELODIE DAVIS-BUNDRAGE, KATALIN MEDVEDEV AND JORI N. HALL

 

The social lens of choice of hairstyle among Ghanaian female youth 

FANNY ADAMS QUAGRAINIE, AFIA DENTAA DANKWA AND ALAN ANIS MIRHAGE KABALAN

 

#BlackRepresentationsMatter: Viewing digital activism through symbology

ALAUNDRA SHEALEY

 

Using autopoiesis to discover the birth of fashion 

VAN DYK LEWIS

 

Design Concepts

 

Designed for diabetic health!: Exploratory sneaker changing the direction in footwear for the Black community

LAPORCHIA DAVIS 

 

Interviews

 

Sneakers, corporate attitudes, and the Black Lives Matter movement: An interview with sneaker expert Sean Williams

TRAVIS D. BOYCE

 

‘We, too, share their heritage and culture’: An interview with Corin Lindsay, co-founder of Corin DeMarco 

TRAVIS D. BOYCE

 

Equality starts with conversation: An interview with designer Elijah Justice

WINSOME M. CHUNNU

 

Book Review

 

Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl’s Love Letter to the Power of Fashion, Tanisha C. Ford (2019)

LISA D. LENOIR