The demand for goods like seasonal fashion apparel is uncertain but the lead time needed for production is long, and so …

contents -- Introduction: The Politics of Fashion Knowledge between Practice and Theory -- TALKSHOW: The site of the practice … -- 2 Theory as Practice: Notes on the Sociology of a Practice-Based Fashion Theory -- The social production of practice …-based design research -- Fashion research in the academic field -- What about theory? -- Conclusion: Questions of format …

-- Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- PART ONE Fashion and fashion theories -- Introduction -- 1 Explaining it Away … -- 2 The Empire of Fashion: Introduction -- 3 Adorned in Zeitgeist -- 4 Haute Couture and Haute Culture -- PART TWO What … fashion is and is not -- Introduction -- 5 Fashion -- 6 Art -- 7 Antifashion: The Vicissitudes of Negation -- 8 Fashion -- 9 …

Cover -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Figuring out the geographies of fashion -- 2 Fashioning … the global city: architecture and the building of fashion space -- 3 Fast fashion, global spaces, and bio …-commodification -- 4 Slow fashion and investment consumption -- 5 Luxury: flagships, singularity, and the art of value creation -- 6 …