Dr Agnes Rocamora
Title
Professor in Research
College
London College of Fashion
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Researcher Research
Biography
Dr. Agnès Rocamora is a Reader in Social and Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. She is the author of Fashioning the City: Paris, Fashion and the Media. Her writing on the field of fashion and on the fashion media has appeared in various journals, including Fashion Theory, Journalism Practice, Sociology, Sociétés, and the Journal of Consumer Culture. She is a co-editor of Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists, of The Handbook of Fashion Studies, and of Fashion Media: Past and Present, and a contributor to Fashion as Photograph, Critical Luxury Studies, and Fashioning Professionals. She is also a co-founder and co-editor of the International Journal of Fashion Studies and is on the editorial board of Cultural Sociology, dObras, and Fashion Studies. She is currently developing her work on digital fashion media.I am currently conducting some research on fashion blogging (including interviews with fashion bloggers) as part of my wider work and interest in digital fashion media.
Research Outputs
Article
- Rocamora A. Mediatization and Digital Media in the Field of Fashion (2016)
- Mora E, Rocamora A, Volonté P. The internationalization of fashion studies: rethinking the peer-reviewing process (2014)
- Rocamora A. Hypertextuality and remediation in the fashion media: the case of fashion blogs (2012)
- Rocamora A. Personal fashion blogs: screens and mirrors in digital self-portraits (2011)
- Rocamora A. Personal Fashion blogs: Identity, Reality and Sociability in the Culture of Appearances (Blogs personnels de mode: identité et sociabilité dans la culture des apparences) (2011)
- Rocamora A, Bartlett D. Blogs de mode: les nouveaux espaces du discours de mode (2009)
- Rocamora A. La Femme des Foules: La Passante, la Mode et la Ville (2007)
- Rocamora A, Entwistle J. The Field of Fashion Materialized: A Study of London Fashion Week (2006)
- Rocamora A. Over to You: Writing Readers in the French Vogue (2006)
- Rocamora A. Le Monde's discours de mode: creating the créateurs (2002)
Book
- Bartlett D, Cole S, Rocamora A. Fashion Media: Past and Present (2013)
- Black S, Rocamora A, Thomas H, Entwistle J, de la Haye A, Root R. The Handbook of Fashion Studies (2013)
- Rocamora A. Fashioning the City: Paris, Fashion and the Media (2009)
Book Section
- Rocamora A. The Luxury Malling of Shanghai: Successes and Dissonances in the Chinese City (2020)
- Rocamora A. Mediatization and Digital Retail (2018)
- Rocamora A. The Labour of Fashion Blogging (2018)
- Rocamora A. Online Luxury: Geographies of Production and Consumption and the Louis Vuitton Website (2016)
- Rocamora A. Pierre Bourdieu: The Field of Fashion (2016)
- Rocamora A. Thinking Through Fashion: An Introduction (2016)
- Rocamora A, Smelik A. Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists (2015)
- Rocamora A. New Fashion Times: Fashion and Digital Media (2013)
- Rocamora A. Paris Capitale de la Mode: Representing Fashion in the Media (2006)
Conference, Symposium or Workshop item
- Findlay R, Jana R, Rocamora A. Strangers in Style: Digital Intimacy and the Self Becoming on the Style Blogosphere (2017)
- Rocamora A. Street fashion Budapest (2011)
- Rocamora A. La Parisienne (2011)
- Rocamora A. Storytellers of fashion (2011)
- Rocamora A. Les nouveaux médias de mode: le phénomène de la blogosphère (2011)
Teaching
Current research students
- Nazli Alimen, Observant Muslims in Turkey: Creating Islamic Fashions and Constructing Islamic Identities.
- Katherine Appleford, "Classifying fashion, fashioning class. " (Lead supervisor)
- Eldina Begic, How to wear utopia: a dress manual for the socialist future. (Lead supervisor)
- Sally Bolton, The fashion image: collaborative practice and convergence from 1990-2016. (Joint supervisor)
- Chitra Buckley, An investigation into the range, sources and implications of in-season fashion trend information on decision making for own-brand retailers operating in the UK. (Lead supervisor)
- Kelly Dearsley, A comparative study of print and digital fashion media: reading practices and reception. (Lead supervisor)
- Anna Camilla Flodin Dansk, The fashion GIF: A Study of a Developing Form of Digital Fahion Media Online (Lead supervisor)
- Elizabeth Lezley George, Deconstructing Fashion Identities: dress codes, modesty and fashion practices in the UAE. (Lead supervisor)
- Ane Lynge Jorlen, Reading Niche Fashion Magazines: Production, Text and Audience. (Lead supervisor)
- Morna Laing, The 'Woman-child' in Fashion Photography 1990 - 2015: Childlike Femininities, Performativity and Reception Studies. (Lead supervisor)
- Rachel Lifter, Contemporary India and the Construction of Identity. (Lead supervisor)
- Tolulope Omoyele, Africa Fashion Week London: An Exploration of Contemporary Cultural Identities 2011- 2015.
- Kevin Quinn, The music critic as tastemaker at the New Musical Express between 1974 and 1984 (Joint supervisor)
- Babette Radclyffe-Thomas, A decade of Vogue China: Constructing Modern Fashion Identities in a Chinese Fashion Magazine.
- Johannes Reponen, Fashion Criticism and its Changing Contexts: A Practice-led Exploration into Writing for Print and online (Lead supervisor)
- Mario Roman, Styling Blokes and Bros; Representations of Fashion, Masculinities and the Nation in Contemporary Photo-spreads of American and British GQ Magazines (Lead supervisor)
- Renate Stauss, (Un)dressing the self: working with dress on concepts of self in therapeutic settings. (Lead supervisor)
Past research students
- Jennifer Rossi-Camus, Curating the Fashion Victim: Establishing Strategies for Exhibition-Making towards the Presentation of Fashion and Humour in Museums and Galleries. (Lead supervisor)
Subjects
Fashion communication