Modern fashion traditions : negotiating tradition and modernity through fashion / edited by M. Angela Jansen and Jennifer Craik.
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TextSeries: Dress and fashion researchPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018Description: xii, 230 pages : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781474229517 (ebook)Subject(s): Fashion -- Asia | Clothing and dress -- Asia | Fashion design -- Asia | Fashion -- Africa | Clothing and dress -- Africa | Fashion design -- Africa | Beauty and Fashion | Cultural studies: customs & traditions | Fashion & textiles | Fashion & textiles | Cultural studies: fashion & societyGenre/Form: Online access: Click here to access online Also available in printed form ISBN 9781350058491Summary: 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.
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Originally published: 2016.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Also available in printed form ISBN 9781350058491
Electronic reproduction. Askews and Holts. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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