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Editor in Chief, Fashion Theory
Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of ‘fashion’ as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. The importance of studying the body as a site for the deployment of discourses has been well established in a number of disciplines. Until Fashion Theory’s launch 11 years ago the dressed body had suffered from a lack of critical analysis. Increasingly scholars have recognized the cultural significance of self-fashioning, including not only clothing but also such body alterations as tattooing and piercing
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goth_cover_th.jpg Gothic: Dark Glamour
(Yale University Press, 2008)
Co-author with Jennifer Park.
 

The Black Dress
(HarperCollins, 2007)
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Ralph Rucci
(Yale University Press and FIT, 2007).
Co-author with Patricia Mears and Clare Sauro.
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Editor in Chief, The Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion 3 volumes
(New York: Scribners, 2004)
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Fashion, Italian Style
(New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003)
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The Fan: Fashion and Femininity
(New York: Rizzoli International, 2003)
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The Corset: A Cultural History
(London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001).
Chinese edition, Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House, 2004.
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The Red Dress
(New York: Rizzoli International, 2001)
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Handbags: A Lexicon of Style
(New York: Rizzoli International, 2000).
Co-author with Laird Borrelli.
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China Chic: East Meets West
(London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).
Co-editor with John S. Major.
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Shoes: A Lexicon of Style
(New York: Rizzoli International, 1999; London: Scriptum, 1999).
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50 Years of Fashion: New Look to Now
(London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997; revised edition, 2000).
French edition: Se vêtir au XXe siècle. De 1945 à nos jours
(Paris: Adam Biro, 1998).
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Fetish: Fashion, Sex and Power
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
German edition, Berlin Verlag, 1996;
Brazilian edition, Rocco, 1997:
French edition, Abbeville, 1997.
Italian edition, Meltemi editore, 2005.
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Women of Fashion: Twentieth-Century Designers
(New York: Rizzoli International, 1991)
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Men and Women: Dressing the Part.
(Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.) Co-editor with Claudia Kidwell. Author of three chapters.

Paris Fashion: A Cultural History
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1988; Revised edition, Oxford: Berg, 1998)
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Fashion and Eroticism: Ideals of Feminine Beauty from the Victorian Era to the Jazz Age
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1985).
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