The main focus of this book is on fashionable dress, but the importance of transient fashions in arts, politics and philosophy is also discussed. An important concern for the authors is a clarification of how fashion, modernity and human identity are related. Fashion is a combination of conformity and individual choices. The development of fashion as a historical phenomenon demonstrates a main feature of modernity, namely the break with tradition. The shorter and shorter cycles of fashion indicate a more complicated notion of an increasingly transitory Self. Everyone interested in fashion, art, history, aesthetics and philosophy will find Fashion a fascinating book