Fashion (including cosmetics): Academic Journals and Articles
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Use the academic journals listed below to find articles including the latest information on your subject.
Many academic journals are considered more reliable sources because they go through a peer review process.
Academic journals are usually peer-reviewed
Peer review involves experts in the field assessing the strength of a piece of work, usually an article or book, prior to publication. It is generally considered a mark of relevance, originality and credibility.
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Academic Journals
Here are some of the key journals in your subject area, titles in the list below are all peer reviewed.
You can find more journals and articles via Library Search on the library website. You can also filter your search to show peer reviewed resources.
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Clothing and textiles research journalThe official publication of the International Textile & Apparel Association, Inc.,
Includes research in textile science and technology; design; consumer behaviour; social psychology; history and culture; merchandising and retailing; textile and apparel industry; education and pedagogy.
CostumeJournal of The Costume Society.
Includes research into historic and contemporary dress, from a broad chronological period and with a worldwide remit.
Critical studies in fashion and beautyDedicated to the critical examination of fashion and/or beauty systems.
The journal seeks to foster more diverse and inclusive ways of understanding the field and to propel fresh theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of fashion.
DressJournal of the Costume Society of America.
Includes examinations of dress in art, social history, anthropology, and material culture.
Fashion and textiles
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Includes textile science and technology; clothing science and technology; economics of clothing and textiles; fashion business; fashion design and cultural studies on fashion.
Fashion, style & popular cultureCovers all aspects of fashion and popular culture relating to design, textiles, production, promotion, consumption and appearance-related products and services.
Fashion theoryFashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of “fashion” as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. It provides an interdisciplinary forum for the rigorous analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from footbinding to fashion advertising.
International journal of clothing science and technologyCovers all aspects of research regarding clothing science. Aimed at those involved with clothing; whether in fabric, design, production, machinery, management or retailing.
International journal of fashion design, technology and educationResearch in fashion design, pattern cutting, apparel production, manufacturing technology and fashion education. Aims to share newly developed technology, theory and techniques in the fashion and textile industries, and promote the development of education practice.
Journal of fashion marketing and managementCovers research in clothing marketing and management, including global marketing and management issues; reviews of trade, production, consumption and employment trends and promotion of best practice.
Studies in costume and performanceCritical discourse on costume and the relationship between costume and performance. It considers costume as a symbiotic articulation of the body of the performer which is visual, material, temporal and performative.
