Modern fashion traditions : negotiating tradition and modernity through fashion / edited by M. Angela Jansen and Jennifer Craik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jansen, M. Angela, editor.

Craik, Jennifer, editor.

Series:

Dress and fashion research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing and dress--Asia.

Clothing and dress.

Fashion--Asia.

Fashion.

Fashion design--Asia.

Fashion design.

Fashion--Social aspects--Asia.

Fashion--Social aspects.

Asia.

Physical Description:

xii, 230 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc., 2016.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Neither East nor West : Japanese Fashion in Modernity / Toby Slade

"Fashion" in the Chinese Context / Christine Tsui

Being Fashionable in India in the Globalisation Era : Holy Writing on Garments / Janaki Turaga

Exotic Narratives in Fashion : The Impact of Motifs of Exotica on Fashion Design and Fashionable Identities / Jennifer Craik

Ottoman Costume in the Context of Modern Turkish Fashion Design / [no author listed]

Beldi Sells : The Commodification of Moroccan Fashion / M. Angela Jansen

History, Art, and Plastic Bags : Viewing South Africa through Fashion / Victoria Rovine

Constructing Fashionable Dress and Identity in Bhutan / Emma Dick

Afterword : Fashion's Fallacy / Sandra Niessen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474229494

1474229492

OCLC:

946076013