2006/07/19 by Joanne Entwistle, Agnès Rocamora · 5 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Fashion and Cultural Textiles #Cultural Industries and Urban Development #Visual Culture and Art Theory
paper · doi:10.1177/0038038506065158
This article, based on two studies of the fashion industry examines one of its key institutions, London Fashion Week (LFW). Drawing on the work of Bourdieu, we argue that this event is a materialization of the field of fashion.We examine how LFW renders visible the boundaries, relational positions, capital and habitus at play in the field, reproducing critical divisions within it.As well as making visible the field, LFW is a ceremony of consecration within it that contributes to its reproduction. The central aim of this article is to develop an empirically grounded sense of field, reconciling this macro-structural concept with embodied and situated reality.