Muslim fashion
Subtitle: contemporary style cultures
By: Reina Lewis
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780822359142; 9780822359340
Subjects: Fashion; Clothing; Muslim women
Description: "In the shops of London's Oxford Street, girls wear patterned scarves over their hair as they cluster around makeup counters. Alongside them, hip twenty-somethings style their head-wraps in high black topknots to match their black boot-cut trousers. Participating in the world of popular mainstream fashion--often thought to be the domain of the West--these young Muslim women are part of an emergent cross-faith transnational youth subculture of modest fashion. In treating hijab and other forms of modest clothing as fashion, Reina Lewis counters the overuse of images of veiled women as "evidence" in the prevalent suggestion that Muslims and Islam are incompatible with Western modernity. Muslim Fashion contextualizes modest wardrobe styling within Islamic and global consumer cultures, interviewing key players including designers, bloggers, shoppers, store clerks, and shop owners. Focusing on Britain, North America, and Turkey, Lewis provides insights into the ways young Muslim women use multiple fashion systems to negotiate religion, identity, and ethnicity."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-363) and index.
Table of contents: title: From multiculture to multifaith : consumer culture and the organization of rights and resources; title: The commercialization of Islamic dress : selling and marketing tesettür in Turkey and beyond; title: Muslim lifestyle magazines : a new mediascape; title: Taste and distinction : the politics of style; title: Hijabi shop workers in Britain : Muslim style knowledge as fashion capital?; title: Modesty online : commerce and commentary on the net; title: Commodification and community.