Video: Watch the Editors in Conversation
April 21, 2011
Joanne B. Eicher, Editor of the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, and Phyllis Tortora, Editor of the North American volume, discuss the challenges of creating a 10-volume, 3.6-million-word major reference work on dress across cultures and throughout history. They also discuss how the study of fashion has changed over time and why fashion is anything but frivolous. Eicher and Tortora answer burning questions in the field, such as:
- Why should anyone study fashion?
- What's the difference between fashion and dress?
- What can we learn from how people dress?
