Legitieme Modekritiek - Legitieme mode? Moderecensies in kwaliteitskranten

Fashion journalism is often viewed as unsuited to the role of legitimate cultural criticism. The present article sees two recurring motivations for this observation: the fashion press' strong dependence on fashion advertising income and a long-standing tradition that rejects the transient temporality of fashion in which journalistic accounts of fashion often take part. These observations are probed for the genre of high-quality daily newspapers, drawing on a case-study of fashion reviews published in The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune between 1949 and 2010. First, the arti... Mehr ...