Sociology of Fashion

"If designers create the form of fashion items, fashion magazines create their legend"

Arnold Hauser, 1982

"The reception of fashion is a product of social cooperation among those who form a 'community of faith', based on a collective belief - or misrecognition"

Pierre Bourdieu, 1993

The sociology of fashion assumes that there has to be a special institution that links the producer (fashion designer) to the consumer. This special institution is the fashion magazine.

Brian Moeran, 2006