Book review: the international politics of fashion: being fab in a dangerous world by Andreas Behnke

The new collection The International Politics of Fashion: Being Fab in a Dangerous World, edited by Andreas Behnke, argues for the importance of fashion to understanding global politics, with a particular focus on its performative dimensions. In this review essay, Christopher May outlines and builds upon the book’s intervention to propose a international politics of fashion as a set of political economic practices with profound, global implications.