The fabric of cultures : fashion, identity, globalization / by Eugenia Paulicelli [editor]
Contributor(s): Paulicelli, Eugenia
| Clark, HazelPublisher: London : Routledge, 2008Description: 219p. ill. [some b/w]; 24 cm001: 12440ISBN: 9780415775434; 0415775434Subject(s): Used clothing industry | Fashion industry | Design - India | Design- Italy | Design - Latin America | Design - China | Merchandising | Globalisation | Society | Fashion - HistoryDDC classification: 391.009 PAU
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Fashion is both public and private, material and symbolic, always caught within the lived experience and providing an incredible tool to study culture and history.
The Fabric of Cultures examines the impact of fashion as a manufacturing industry and as a culture industry that shapes the identities of nations and cities in a cross-cultural perspective, within a global framework.nbsp; The collected essays investigate local and global economies, cultures and identities and the book offers for the first time, a wide spectrum of case studies which focus on a diversity of geographical spaces and places, from global capitals of fashion such as New York, to countries less known or identifiable for fashion such as contemporary Greece and soviet Russia.
Highly illustrated and including essays from all over the world, The Fabric of Cultures provides a comprehensive survey of the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on fashion, identity and globalisation.
Includes index
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of figures (p. ix)
- Notes on contributors (p. xi)
- Acknowledgements (p. xv)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- 1 From potlatch to Wal-Mart: courtly and capitalist hierarchies through dress (p. 13)
- 2 Dressing the nation: Indian cinema costume and the making of a national fashion, 1947-1957 (p. 28)
- 3 Made in America: Paris, New York, and postwar fashion photography (p. 41)
- 4 Framing the Self, staging identity: clothing and Italian style in the films of Michelangelo Antonioni (1950-1964) (p. 53)
- 5 The art of dressing: body, gender, and discourse on fashion in Soviet Russia in the 1950s and 1960s (p. 73)
- 6 Fashioning appropriate youth in 1990s Vietnam (p. 92)
- 7 Youth, gender, and secondhand clothing in Lusaka, Zambia: local and global styles (p. 112)
- 8 Fashion design and technologies in a global context (p. 128)
- 9 Fabricating Greekness: from fustanella to the glossy page (p. 145)
- 10 Fashion Brazil: South American style, culture, and industry (p. 164)
- 11 Fashioning "China style" in the twenty-first century (p. 177)
- 12 From factories to fashion: an intern's experience of New York as a global fashion capital (p. 194)
- Index (p. 211)
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