Modern Fashion Traditions - Negotiating Tradition and Modernity through Fashion (Hardcover)

Modern Fashion Traditions questions the dynamics of fashion systems and spaces of consumption outside the West. Too often, these fashion systems are studied as a mere and recent result of globalization and Western fashion influences, but this book draws on a wide range of non-Western case studies and analyses their similarities and differences as legitimate fashion systems, contesting Eurocentric notions of tradition and modernity, continuity versus change, and 'the West versus the Rest'. Preconceptions about non-Western fashion are challenged through diverse case studies from international scholars, including street-style identity in Bhutan, the influence of Ottoman cultural heritage on contemporary Turkish fashion design, and an investigation into the origins of the word 'fashion' in Chinese. Negotiating tradition, foreign influences and the contemporary global dominance of Western fashion cities, Modern Fashion Traditions will give readers a clearer understanding of non-Western fashion identities in the present. Accessibly written, this ground-breaking text makes an essential contribution to the study of non-Western fashion and will be an important resource for students of fashion history and theory, anthropology, and cultural studies.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Dress and Fashion Research
Release date:	July 2016
Editors:	M. Angela Jansen • Jennifer Craik
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-4742-2949-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Fashion design Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Costume, clothes & fashion
LSN:	1-4742-2949-2
Barcode:	9781474229494

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