Provides a clear, very accessible summary of the existing literature on fashion. Offers an original approach to the study of fashion in modern society using a combined historical and sociological perspective.[...]

Fashion is bound up with promoting the 'new', concerned with constantly changing aesthetics. The favoured styles or looks of a season arise out of the work of a vast range of different actors who collectively produce, select, distribute and promote the new ideals, before moving on to next season. Ho[...]