1. 2015 Special Collection on "Innovations in Teaching and Industry Practices"

The Korean Society for Clothing and Textiles is planning a special article collection of the journal, Fashion and Textiles, out of the papers presented in the 2014 KSCT-ITAA joint symposium on "Innovations in Teaching and Industry Practices."  As a way of encouraging further collaboration among scholars and facilitating research in this area, any presenters participated in the joint symposium are welcome to submit their papers to the special collection. Full papers are due March 1, 2015. The papers submitted to the special collection will undergo a double-blind review process with a special privilege of two reviews (regularly 3 reviews) and expedited processing. The target publication date for this special collection is September 30, 2015.  

If you have further questions concerning the special collection, please contact the guest editor, Dr. Yoon-Jung Lee (yleehe@korea.ac.kr) or EIC of the journal, Dr. Kyung Wha Oh (kwhaoh@cau.ac.kr).

2. 2016 Special Collection on "Fashion and Gender"

Fashion and Textiles invites you to submit to a special article collection on the topic of fashion and gender to be co-edited by Sharron J. Lennon and Jennifer Yurchisin. This special article collection will focus on all instances where gender issues are relevant during the different phases of fashion creation from design to production and consumption, and finally disposal. Gender can affect who is the real “designer” and who gets credit for the design ideas, and it can also influence color choices as some are reserved for men and others for women. There are gender issues in production (e.g., who does the sewing); in how clothing is sold (e.g., division of stores into men’s and women’s areas); in advertising (e.g., objectification of people, use of gay/lesbian imagery in advertising) as well as in consumption (e.g., shopping is women’s work). Within this topic there is the potential for historical inquiry, hard-science and social-science approaches and cultural study. Full papers are due June 1, 2015. For more information, visit the journal website. Accepted papers will be published in late 2015 or early 2016. If you have questions concerning your submission, please contact Dr. Sharron Lennon (sjlennon@indiana.edu)  or Dr. Jennifer Yurchisin(jlyurchi@uncg.edu).

3. 2014 FATE Table of Contents