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[Fashion and Ethics] forces us to weigh the implications of being committed to something ideologically and the possibilities of realizing it pragmatically in our day to day lives, in a more large-scale effort to detach ethics from the idea of a commodity-- something we merely trade--and from ideology, something we merely think about. --Insights Magazine

'Ethically conscientious designers and consumers need more journals like Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, Volume 2, Issue 1-2. (This book is comprised of articles from the journal Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, Volume 2)' -- Fashion Theory, Anita Marosszeky 'The volume is instrumental in beginning to figure out what it means to cultivate an ethical response writ large when confronted with choices as consumers' -- Insights (Parsons the New School for Design), Amie Zimmer

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Efrat Tseëlon was appointed Professor of Fashion Theory at the University of Leeds, in 2007 and is the founder and Principal Editor of Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty since 2010. As a cultural theorist with marketing and organizational industry experience she has published widely. Since receiving her Ph.D. from Oxford in social psychology entitled ‘Communicating via Clothing’ (1989) she has been developing an innovative approach to fashion research which she calls Critical Fashion Studies that she applied to many topics from gender, fashion ethics and popular culture, to the school uniform and the traditional carpet. She pioneered the study of ‘inside view’ (the wearers) over the ‘outside view’ (designers, museums) which was prevalent in research on fashion before, and she developed the perspective of wardrobe research (focused on wearing everyday clothes) over the stereotype approach (which privileges occasion garments). Tseëlon has also pioneered a research approach which is rooted in historical and theoretical frameworks but draws on several fields to ground its claims with empirical work from a number of fields: a synthesis of qualitative and quantitative research, discursive approaches, the uncanny method, and techniques derived from problem-based learning.

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