Jessica Wolfendale & Jeanette Kennett 
Fashion – Philosophy for Everyone [PDF ebook] 
Thinking with Style

Foreword ix
Jennifer Baumgardner
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Jessica Wolfendale and Jeanette Kennett
Part 1 Being Fashionable and Being Cool 13
1 What Makes Something Fashionable? 15
Anya Farennikova and Jesse Prinz
2 Fashion, Illusion, and Alienation 31
Nick Zangwill
3 Tryhards, Fashion Victims, and Effortless Cool 37
Luke Russell
Part 2 Fashion, Style, and Design 51
4 The Aesthetics of Design 53
Andy Hamilton
5 Share the Fantasy: Perfume Advertising, Fashion, and Desire 70
Cynthia A. Freeland
6 Computational Couture: From Cyborgs to Supermodels 88
Ada Brunstein
Part 3 Fashion, Identity, and Freedom 103
7 Wearing Your Values on Your Sleeve 105
Daniel Yim
8 Fashion and Sexual Identity, or Why Recognition Matters 120
Samantha Brennan
9 Slaves to Fashion? 135
Lauren Ashwell and Rae Langton
10 Fashion Dolls and Feminism: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Barbie? 151
Louise Collins
Part 4 Can We Be Ethical and Fashionable? 167
11 Sweatshops and Cynicism 169
Matthew F. Pierlott
12 Women Shopping and Women Sweatshopping: Individual Responsibility for Consumerism 18
Lisa Cassidy
13 A Taste for Fashion 199
Marguerite La Caze
Notes on Contributors 215

Editors
Jessica Wolfendale is Assistant Professor of Philosophy
at West Virginia University, and perhaps a little too fond of
vintage clothing. She is the author of Torture and the Military
Profession (2007) and has published extensively on the ethics
of torture, military ethics, and applied ethics.
Jeanette Kennett is Professor of Moral Psychology at
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She is the author of
Agency and Responsibility (2001) and has published widely on
topics including empathy, addiction, self-control, , advertising,
and love and friendship.
Series Editor
Fritz Allhoff is an Associate Professor in the
Philosophy Department at Western Michigan University, as well as a
Senior Research Fellow at The Australian National University’s
Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In addition to
editing the Philosophy for Everyone series, Allhoff is also
the volume editor or co-editor for several titles, including
Wine & Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Whiskey
& Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley, 2009), and
Food & Philosophy (with Dave Monroe, Wiley-Blackwell,
2007). His academic research interests engage various facets of
applied ethics, ethical theory, and the history and philosophy of
science.