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The article discusses the challenges in creating a multi-methodological approach to doctoral theses that take the study of fashion as their subject. Using my doctoral thesis on the Bakhtinian grotesque in fashion at the turn of the twenty-first century as a case study, the article highlights the need for the inclusion of theories and methods from a wide variety of disciplines and fields of studies. It also sets up a comparison between fashion studies and other emerging or newly emerged disciplines and fields of studies, chiefly film and performance studies. It suggests a parallel between the relation of fashion studies to costume studies and the relation of performance studies to theater studies. Finally, the article opens up the question of whether it is desirable for fashion studies to become a self-standing discipline and/or remain an interdisciplinary field, as it is described within the introductory pages of this journal.
Francesca Granata (Fri,) studied this question.