Fashion and Intersectionality

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220131.143How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Intersectionality; Fashion Industry; Social Equity; Gender Equity

Abstract

This essay explores in depth the interconnection between the fashion industry and intersectionality - how one’s defining identities, including race, ethnicity, and gender, affect her performance in the industry - highlighting the history and progression of the industry, yet pinpointing the commercial incentives of such progression as well as remaining obstacles in the industry in the topic of diversity and exploring how the industry’s social norms and beauty standards are internalized by both models and consumers and exacerbate racial stereotypes and body image issues. Prejudice and exclusion have been a long-standing problem in the industry with few effective interventions, thus this passage is intended to give insights for both social advocates as well as fashion workers who are dedicated to working towards creating a less hostile, more embracing environment.

Copyright

© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

Open Access

This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Runjia Wei
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/02/01
TI  - Fashion and Intersectionality
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 787
EP  - 790
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220131.143
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220131.143
ID  - Wei2022
ER  -