Few phenomena embody the notion of time as well as fashion. Fast-moving and rooted in the ''now'', it-s constantly creating its own past through the process of rapid style change. Uniquely poised between the past and the future, fashion-s relationship with time is unorthodox. Rather than considering time in the conventional sense, this anthology explores three alternative ways to think about fashion and time: the first identifies the seasonal nature of fashion as an industry, and shows how this has impacted on workers and wearers alike. The second looks at fashion design as a ceaseless process of adaptation, reconstruction and recombination of motifs, in which nostalgia and revivals play their part. The third construes fashion-s ''imaginary'', with its capacity for fantasy and myth-making, as a form of alternate history that asks ''what if?''Within this framework, key classic texts are juxtaposed with lesser known ones, in an interdisciplinary approach that includes philosophy, history
