Fashion and materiality : cultural practices in global contexts / edited by Heike Jenss and Viola Hofmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jenss, Heike, editor.

Hofmann, Viola, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fashion--Social aspects.

Fashion.

Material culture--Social aspects.

Material culture.

Clothing and dress--Social aspects.

Clothing and dress.

Clothing trade--Social aspects.

Clothing trade.

Physical Description:

297 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

Contents:

Introduction. Fashion and Materiality / Heike Jenss and Viola Hofmann

Section 1. Fashion and clothing - Materials in time and place. 1. Material Subjects. Making Place, Making Time through Fashion / Susan Kaiser. 2. Dressed Lives. Biography, Emotion, and Materiality / Christel Köhle-Hezinger. 3. The Discovery of Materiality. On Archaeological Clothing Finds, Representation and Knowledge Formation / Daniel Devoucoux. 4. Appropriating the World through Clothing. Christoph Kress' Foreign Dress Collection / Jutta Zander-Seidel

Section 2. Materiality in motion - Global circuits of fashion. 5. Chinoiserie in Fashion. Material Images Circulating Between China and Europe / Daniel Purdy. 6. Tradition in Fashion. Golden Embroidery and the Crafting of Heritage in Bukhara / Lola Shamukhitdinova. 7. “Our Dress”. Chitenge as Zambia's National Fabric / Karen Tranberg Hansen. 8. “Made in China”. Material Meanderings of Fast-Fashion Cities / Christina H. Moon

Section 3. Materiality and embodiment. 9. Sensorial Cosmologies. Fashion Design and the Embodied Practices of the Wearer / Leyla Belkaid-Neri. 10. “The Left-Hand Pose”. Alchemic Realism and the Intra-Action of Music, Body, and Dress in Metal Yoga / Otto von Busch. 11. “Feeling Premium”. Athleisure and the Material Transformation of Sporting Wear / Jennifer Craik

Section 4. Material exchanges - Fashion and migration. 12. International Fashion Shows. Creating Transcultural Relationships through Clothing / Andrea Hauser. 13. Entangled Histories. Fashion and the Politics of Migration / Elke Gaugele.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781350057814

1350057819

OCLC:

1108696037

Publisher Number:

99982502166