Fashion, Consumption and Celebrity Culture

Pamela Church Gibson and Alexandre Zamboni deliver a wide-ranging and up-to-date analysis of the complex intersection of fashion and celebrity in contemporary consumer culture. Their book is also both intelligent and witty – in short, a delight to read. * Nick Rees-Roberts, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France *
Sharp and revealing, Church Gibson and Zamboni take the reader on a roller coaster ride through celebrity culture to explain its triumph in our increasingly networked world. Brilliant. * Vicki Karaminas, Professor of Fashion, Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand *
From start to finish, this profoundly updated book offers much-needed critical and feminist analyses of a celebrity culture gone utterly astray. Together, authors Church Gibson and Zamboni cover a richly varied topography, moving from the past to the present, and offering in-depth case studies that are compelling and highly insightful. A must for anyone interested in celebrity culture, ‘celebritization’, celebrity glamour, popular culture and fashion, and in their relentless capitalising, exploitations and excesses. * Louise Wallenberg, Professor of Fashion Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden *
A welcome update to this popular fashion studies text now tracing the impact of social media technologies on fashion and celebrity culture. * Alistair O’Neill, Professor of Fashion History and Theory, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK *
An indispensable sequel to Church Gibson’s influential Fashion and Celebrity Culture (2013), accounting for how social media has consolidated and complicated the relationship. Essential reading for anyone interested in either fashion or celebrity—or the abiding intersection between both. * Suzanne Ferriss, author of The Cinema of Sofia Coppola: Fashion, Culture, Celebrity and Greta Gerwig: Filmmaker *