Fashion Criticism: An Anthology, edited by Francesca Granata Available to Purchase

Fashion Criticism: An Anthology is a book, edited by Francesca Granata, that gathers various writings to provide a thorough understanding of the development of fashion criticism in contemporary times so as to elucidate its establishment. Granata collects and juxtaposes writings from fashion journalists, cultural critics, theorists, and writers with the aim of filling gaps in this field of cultural criticism. In the introduction, the editor immediately highlights the reasons why fashion writing has encountered many obstacles to being recognized as a subject worthy of academic interest. Among the various factors causing this delay, one hypothesis put forward is the association with the feminine gender, which plays a fundamental role in the consideration of this area of criticism as superficial. Indeed, even after its legitimation within cultural criticism, fashion criticism has still been labeled as trivial and superfluous and, therefore, feminine. Considered a marginalized sector of critical theory, media coverage of...