Fashioning Professionals: Identity and Representation at Work in the Creative Industries [Paperback]

From artist to curator, couturier to fashion blogger, 'creative' professional identities can be viewed as social practices, enacted, performed and negotiated through the media, the public, and industry.Fashioning Professionalsaddresses what it means to be a creative professional, historically and in the digital age, as new ways of working and doing business have given rise to new professional identities.

Bringing together critical reflections from international researchers, the book spans fashion, design, art, architecture, and advertising. It examines both traditional and emergent roles in creative industries, from advertising executives and surrealist artists to mannequin designers, pop stylists, bloggers, makers and design curators. The book reveals how professional identities are continually in a state offashioning, through style, taste, gender and cultural representation, highlighting moments of friction and flux in the creative labour of the global economy.
Interweaving critical perspectives from fashion and design history with sociology and cultural theory,Fashioning Professionalsaddresses a burgeoning area of research as we enter new terrain in fashion and the creative industries.

Felice McDowellis Associate Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Studies at the London College of Fashion, and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK.

Leah Armstrongis Senior Lecturer in Design History at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria.

An excellent resource for scholars who are interested in fashion, representation, and identity ... Provides insight into the fragile, and fluctuating nature of in the creative industries and as such, will be of interest to readers from a variety of fields. The Journal of Dress History

Pulling together far reaching ideas with the concept of fashioning, the authors open the analysis beyond the usual suspects of dress, the fashion sy