Fashion is a global entity and force. Changing fashions move textiles and garments, styles, and concepts around the world, and have done so for centuries, if not millennia, as an integral part of society. But fashion globalism—which addresses and interprets the whole world through fashion—means more than trading networks that criss-cross the globe, producing cultural transformations beyond our imagination. Understanding fashion within a worldwide frame also means cultivating a sense of global citizenship that comes with rights, responsibilities, and a history.
The pages of have always sought to engage with a worldwide audience, and its centenary gives us occasion to reflect on the fashion industry’s interest in creative engagements with a diverse range of cultures and ethnicities. In both of these senses, the role that fashion magazines have, this could even be termed French Globalism.
