Berg Publishers is an academic publishing company based in Oxford, England that was started in the early 1980s. Berg publishes monographs, textbooks and reference books as well as journals. Particular concentrations are fashion, design, and cultural studies broadly speaking. Berg is particularly known as the publisher of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, edited by Dr. Valerie Steele, Director of the Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology. This journal pioneered the concept of ‘fashion theory,’ thereby legitimising the study of dress as an academic specialization.
Berg currently has in development The Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress & Fashion, a major reference work consisting of 3.6 million words and 3000 images that will publish in print and online in 2010. Berg is distributed in the US by Palgrave Macmillan.
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