Adam (University of Sydney, Australia) Geczy & Vicki (Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand) Karaminas 
Fashion and Art [PDF ebook] 

For at least two centuries, fashion and art have maintained a competitive love-hate relationship. Both fashion and art construct imaginary worlds, and use a language of style to invigorate beliefs, perceptions and ideas.
Until now the crossovers of fashion and art have received only scattered treatment and suffered from a dearth of theorization. As an attempt to theorize the area, this collection of new and updated essays is the most well-rounded and authoritative to date. Some of the world»s foremost scholars in the field are assembled here to explore the art-fashion nexus in numerous ways: from aesthetics and performance to masquerade and media.
Original and inspiring, this book will not only secure »art-fashion» as a discrete area of study, but also suggest new critical pathways for exploring their continuing cross-pollination.
Fashion and Art is essential reading for students and scholars of fashion, art history and theory, cultural studies and related fields.