Fashion and Materiality
Subtitle: Cultural Practices in Global Contexts
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781350057838
Subjects: Costume design
Description: "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"--