The Fabric of Cultures: Fashion, Identity, and Globalization

by Paulicelli, Eugenia; Clark, Hazel

• ISBN13: 9780203869024
• ISBN10: 0203869028
• Copyright: 2008-09-26
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

The Fabric of Cultures examines the impact of fashion as a manufacturing industry and as a culture industry that shapes identities of nations and cities in a cross-cultural perspective and within a global framework.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

From Potlach to Wal-Mart: Courtly and Capitalist Hierarchies through Dress

Dressing the Nation: Indian Cinema Costume and the Making of a National Fashion, 1947-1957

Made in America: Paris, New York, and Postwar Fashion Photography

Framing the Self, Staging Identity: Clothing and Italian Style in the Films of Michelangelo Antonioni (1950-1964)

The Art of Dressing Body, Gender and Discourse on fashion in Soviet Russia in the 1950s and 1960s

Making Modernity Appropriate and Tradition Fashionable: Debates about Dress, Identity, and Gender in Ho Chi Minh City

Youth, Gender, and Secondhand Clothing in Lusaka, Zambia: Local and Global Styles

Fashion Design and Technologies in a Global Context

Fabricating Greekness: from Fustanella to the Glossy Page

Fashion Brazil: South American Style, Culture and Industry

Fashioning "China Style" in the Twenty First Century

From Factories to Fashion: An Intern's Experience of a Global Fashion Capital

Index

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