Gissing in Vogue

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, 2010

Book Review This year's model. Fashion, media and the making of glamour, E.A. Wissinger. NWY Press (2015). 353 pages, ISBN: 978-1-4798-6477-5, 2019

A review of This Year’s Model. Fashion, Media and the Making of Glamour (2015), by Elizabeth A. Wissinger. Published for WSIF Journal.

Fashion Theory

2014

Until recently, beauty, fashion, and femininity have, for the most part, been overlooked by academia in spite of their sociocultural and political meaning, implications concerning power, role as instruments of modernity, and status as technologies of neoliberalism. Instead of recognizing the critical potential of these subjects, scholars have long disregarded them as irrelevant and frivolous.

Article 1 – Designers Contributing to Androgynous Fashion Firstly, beginning with the concept of gender fluidity or androgynous fashion, this term is not a new one. Mostly everyone in the fashion world is aware of the concept of gender fluidity, as we progress in the 21 st century people all around the world are getting in terms to gender fluidity. Androgyny is the combination of masculine and feminine characteristics. Androgyny among humans' physical, psychological, and cultural is attested to from earliest history and across world cultures. The ancient Greek myth of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, two divinities who fused into a single immortal provided a frame of reference used in Western culture for centuries. Western Esotericism's embrace of androgyny continued into the modern period 1550 anthology of Alchemical thought De Alchemia included the influential Rosary of the Philosophers, which depicts the sacred marriage of the masculine principle (Sol) with the feminine principle (Luna) producing the " Divine Androgyne, " a representation of Alchemical Hermetic beliefs in dualism, transformation, and the transcendental perfection of the union of opposites. Male/female design is a style that expects to stay

2015

Average looking really pretty model people: New ways of thinking about the fashion model for new times