Pamela Church Gibson is Reader in Film & Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, Vice-Chair of the European Popular Culture Association, and Principal Editor of the refereed journal Film, Fashion & Consumption. She has published extensively on film, fashion, gender, and heritage over the last 25 years. Her books include Dirty Looks: Women, Power, Pornography (BFI, 1993), The Oxford Guide to Film Studies (1998, with John Hill), Fashion Cultures (2001, with Stella Bruzzi), More Dirty Looks: Gender, Power, Pornography (BFI, 2004), Fashion and Celebrity Culture (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Fashion Cultures Revisited: Theories, Explorations, Analysis (2013).

The interrelationship between fashion and celebrity is now a salient and pervasive feature of the media world. This accessible text presents the first in-depth study of the phenomenon, assessing the degree to which celebrity culture has reshaped the fashion system.



Fashion and Celebrity Culture critically examines the history of this relationship from its growth in the 19th century to its mutation during the twentieth century to the dramatic changes that have befallen it in the last two decades. It addresses the fashion-celebrity nexus as it plays itself out across mainstream cinema, television and music and in the celebrity status of a range of designers, models and artists. It explores the strategies that have enabled visual culture to recast itself in the new climate of celebrity obsession, popular culture and the art world to respond adaptively to its insistent pressures.
With its engaging analysis and case studies from Lillian Gish to Louis Vuitton to Lady Gaga, Fashion and Celebrity Culture is of major interest to students of fashion, media studies, film, television studies and popular culture, and anyone with an interest in this global phenomenon.

1 Introduction
2 Fashion and Celebrity Culture, Past and Present
PART I: FASHION & FILM
3 Film Stars as Fashion Icons
4 Hollywood Celebrity Cover Girls
5 'Fashion Films': from Prêt-a-porter to A Single Man
6 Sex and The City: From Small Screen to Big Screen
PART II: FASHION MEDIA & CULTURE
8 Fashion on Television: So Many Celebrities, So Little Fashion?
7 The Changing Face(s) of the Fashion Magazine and the New Media Landscape
9 Fashion, Music and Celebrity
11 Artists, Celebrity and Fashion: From Wilde and Warhol to Taylor-Wood
PART III: FASHION GONE GLOBAL
10 Designers and Models become Brands
12 Other Continents, Other Celebrities, Other Fashions
13 Conclusion: The Future of Celebrity-Driven Fashion
Notes
References
Index