Fashion and cultural studies This book addresses the growing interaction between the two fields. Bridging theory and practice it draws on cultural diversity in fashion dress and style in the context of globalization and its varied cultural historical underpinnings. While the book is organized around specific subjects such as ethnicity class gender and nation the overall goal is to highlight the ways in which these interact and overlap. A wide range of cross cultural case studies analyze fashion as a multi ethnic transnational and multiply gendered classed and sexualized phenomenon