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Fashion India - Spectacular Capitalism (Paperback)
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This anthology written by an international group of anthropologists
with hands-on experience from India and its multi-faceted fashion
industry explores the underlying dynamics of spectacular
capitalism. The authors present a range of intriguing case studies
that open up the potential for critique of the local as much as
global system that reproduces hierarchies and inequalities, while
providing us a window into contemporary urban India. The opulent,
delicate and handcrafted Indian fashion pieces resemble the white
lotus, Indias national flower. The lotus too, with its beauty,
grows out of the mud, mud that remains invisible and hidden. What
have the contemporary Indian spectacular fashion shows in common
with the Western nineteenth century department store fantasy
palaces, the royal durbars, the elaborate museum displays of the
colonial era and the lives of erstwhile Indian royals? What can the
Delhi International Airport reveal about the current obsession of
Indians with Indianness, the local and the refashioning of India
for the global audience? How does the 'royal chic' -- the current
trend in luxury Indian haute couture that recreates the splendour
of the aristocratic lifestyles of the bygone era -- depend on
poverty for its visual and material existence? Why does the Indian
government invest in the Northeast Indian fashion scene and into
the production of ethnic glamour and tribal chic? How do the
glamour seeking Kerala Muslim women appropriate the sexy Bollywood
fashions while still retaining their codes of modesty? How do the
world of Delhi and its fashion designers look from the perspective
of the village craftswomen that work for them, mock them and laugh
at them and their hectic life? What is the science and artisanship
behind the production of traditional Kolhapuri sandals, turned into
luxury items for the international consumer? Finally, how do
Bollywood cinema and the changing male fashion and body ideals
reflect the transforming India? This anthology, written by an
international group of anthropologists with hands-on experience
from India and its multi-faceted fashion industry, explores the
underlying dynamics of spectacular capitalism. The authors present
a range of intriguing case studies that open up the potential for
critique of the local as much as global system that reproduces
hierarchies and inequalities, while providing us a window into
contemporary urban India.
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