Fashion and Materiality
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Fashion and Materiality

Cultural Practices in Global Contexts

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Fashion and Materiality

Cultural Practices in Global Contexts

About this book

Fashion is intimately tied to the material world. With a focus on diverse cultural practices, this book offers new insights into the dynamic relationships between fashion, bodies, and material culture. In a series of original case studies, both historical and contemporary, the collection explores how fashion and clothing affect articulations of body and self, experiences of time and place, and the shaping of social and local/global relationships. With chapters from leading international scholars, Fashion and Materiality takes the reader from the study of clothing and biography, and an early modern "foreign dress" collection, to Chinoiserie clothing in 18th-century Europe and fast fashion production in today's China. The book also examines fashion's role in nation building, and entanglements between fashion and migration across clothing donations for Syrian refugees in Germany and the circulation of "refugee chic" on international fashion runways. Scrutinizing the dense connections between fashion, clothing, materiality, and humanity, the book shows how the material interacts forcefully with the personal and political.

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Edition
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Topic
Design

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyrights
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: Fashion and materiality Heike Jenss and Viola Hofmann
  10. Section One Fashion and clothing: Materials in time and place
  11. Section Two Materiality in motion: Global circuits of fashion
  12. Section Three Materiality and embodiment
  13. Section Four Material exchanges: Fashion and migration
  14. Notes on contributors
  15. Index