Fashion and Materiality - Cultural Practices in Global Contexts (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2019
Editors:	Heike Jenss • Viola Hofmann
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	312
ISBN-13:	978-1-350-05781-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Fashion design Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Costume, clothes & fashion Promotions
LSN:	1-350-05781-9
Barcode:	9781350057814

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