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The importance of studying the body as a site for the deployment of discourses is well-established in a number of disciplines. By contrast, the study of fashion has, until recently, suffered from a lack of critical analysis. Increasingly, however, scholars have recognized the cultural significance of self-fashioning, including not only clothing but also such body alterations as tattooing and piercing. Fashion 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.Editor-in-ChiefValerie Steele, Director, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, USAe-mail: valerie_steele@fitnyc.eduExhibitions Reviews EditorAlexandra Palmer, Royal Ontario Museum, Canadae-mail: alexp@rom.on.caBook Reviews EditorPeter McNeil, University of Technology Sydney, AustraliaEditorial BoardRebecca Arnold, Courtauld Institute of Art, UKChristopher Breward, University of Edinburgh, UKPatrizia Calefato, University of Bari, ItalyJoanne B. Eicher, University of Minnesota, USACaroline Evans, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, UKAkiko Fukai, Kyoto Costume Institute, JapanPamela Golbin, Musée de la Mode et du Textile, FranceSusan Kaiser, University of California at Davis, USAVicki Karaminas, Massey University, New ZealandYuniya Kawamura, Fashion Institute of Technology, USADorothy Ko, Barnard College, Columbia University, USAReina Lewis, London College of Fashion, UAL, UKJohn S. Major, The China Institute, USAPeter McNeil, University of Technology, Sydney, AustraliaPatricia Mears, The Fashion Institute of Technology, USAAlexandra Palmer, Royal Ontario Museum, CanadaNicole Pellegrin, Institut d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, CNRS, FrancePhilippe Perrot, École des Hautes Études, FranceRegina A. Root, The College of William and Mary, USASimona Segre Reinach, University of Bologna, ItalyUlinka C. Rublack, University of Cambridge, UKLou Taylor, University of Brighton, UKEfrat Tseëlon, University of Leeds, UKOlga Vainshtein, Russian State University for the Humanities, RussiaBarbara Vinken, Hamburg University, GermanyClaire Wilcox, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK, and London College of Fashion, UKElizabeth Wilson, London College of Fashion, UK&#160;&#160;