Understanding Fashion Scandals: Social Media, Identity, and Globalization

All publicity is good publicity? Perhaps not. In recent years, multiple local and global fashion brands have been called out for cultural appropriation, racism, misogyny, and even flirting with fascism.

Understanding Fashion Scandals is the first book to explore this changing landscape of contemporary fashion through case studies showing how 'shock value' lost its currency. The book focuses on the changes since the late—1970s and early 1980s, when brands like Calvin Klein and Benetton first ...