Fashion, Style & Popular Culture

LOVE this product! One of the chapters in my latest branding book! Imagine where you can go! Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFI_-kJ95vc

To celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day and National Coming Out Day Drexel University is hosting a Two-Spirit Event! Please feel free to attend it's open to the public! Here are the Details. https://drexel.zoom.us//tJMucempqzMtGtY1Yte3GBNE5uwP_M8yC9

In 1973, this editor's mother exercised her right to vote and demonstrated to her son (who was picking his nose!) how important it was to vote! Go out and vote this November! Thanks mom..I love you!

As we all start school this Fall here's a little fun! Can I have some of this energy please! Thanks Raymond Mallari for sending me this! Love you!

I am so thrilled my colleague and friend Natalie Nixon is coming to speak at Drexel University via Zoom! Please join us! https://www.facebook.com/events/327074111706918/

The latest cover of our newest issue! Thank you Heather Akou at Indiana University for your article on prison uniforms and this wonderful image from the Library of Congress.

Issue 7.4 is complete. Here's what's inside! Introduction The year of change: It will never be the same JOSEPH H. HANCOCK... Articles Re-defining a decade: Marc Jacobs, Tony Viramontes and the vocabulary of 1980s fashion SCOTT WILLIAM SCHIAVONE Dressing up the author:Jonathan Franzen and David Foster Wallace branding their masculine authorial identities through fashion JUSTIN RUSSELL GREENE Fashionable effort: The tie in the age of informal dressing MARIA MACKINNEY-VALENTIN Collaborative economy and shared clothing: Sustainable clothing use of retired Korean men YOON KYUNG LEE AND MARILYN DELONG Prison uniforms on the outside: Intersections with US popular culture HEATHER AKOU Classic design: From cultural knowledge to individual experience MARY ALICE CASTO AND MARILYN DELONG Fashion consumption in digital media: Multiple practices and new identities VICTORIA NANNINI Sustainability is the new black: Exploring website communication practices of Indian sustainable fashion brands B. AMRITHA AND KALYANI SURESH Festival Reviews Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo Spring/Summer 2020, Tokyo, 14 October 201919 October 2019 ALI KHAN Book Reviews The Punk Reader: Research Transmissions from the Local to the Global, Russ Bestley, Mike Dines, Alastair ‘Gords’ Gordon and Paula Guerra (eds) (2019) JOSÉ BLANCO F. The Art of Disney Costuming: Heroes, Villains, and Spaces Between, Jeff Kurtti and the Staff of the Walt Disney Archives (2019) MARLEY HEALY The Fundamentals of Fashion Management, Susan Dillon (2018), 2nd ed. HENRY NAVARRO DELGADO Transorientalism in Art, Fashion, and Film, Adam Geczy (2019) MARY RUPPERT-STROESCU Work! A Queer History of Modeling, Elspeth H. Brown (2019) JOY SPERLING Thanks to all who contributed! You are wonderful!

A special thank you from me as editor to our Productions Manager Laura Christopher for all the hard work she has done! Thanks Laura!

Got to speak about Clueless to my students last night and I had Elisa "Amber" Donovan say "Hello!" I hope you enjoy! - Joe Hancock

A great woman has passed away. Felicia Campbell one of the first women of the field of Popular Culture Studies and a great influence in my career died on Monda...y because of complications with Coronavirus. The award I won from her hangs above my desk and I look at it each day thanking Felicia for her dynamic personality and for accepting me for who I am. I will miss her greatly. Take some time to visit her Facebook page she was a great lady! See more

Call for Papers for Critical Studies in Men's Fashion!

Another fashion star leaves this world...he will be missed!

One of the best actresses there ever was...RIP