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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Heike Jenss; Viola Hofmann |
ISBN: | 1350057827 9781350057838 1350057835 9781350057821 |
OCLC Number: | 1124425065 |
Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
Contents: | List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Introduction: Fashion and MaterialityHeike Jenss and Viola HofmannSECTION 1: FASHION AND CLOTHING -- MATERIALS IN TIME AND PLACEIntroduction1. Material Subjects: Making Place, Making Time through FashionSusan Kaiser2. Dressed Lives: Biography, Emotion, and MaterialityChristel Köhle-Hezinger3. The Discovery of Materiality: On Archaeological Clothing Finds, Representation and Knowledge Formation Daniel Devoucoux4. Appropriating the World through Clothing: Christoph Kress' Foreign Dress CollectionJutta Zander-SeidelSECTION 2: MATERIALITY IN MOTION -- TRANSNATIONAL CIRCUITS OF FASHION Introduction5. Chinoiserie in Fashion: Material Images Circulating Between China and EuropeDaniel Purdy6. Tradition in Fashion: Golden Embroidery and the Crafting of Heritage in BukharaLola Shamukhitdinova7. 'Our Dress': Chitenge as Zambia's National FabricKaren Tranberg Hansen8. 'Made in China': Material Meanderings of Fast-Fashion CitiesChristina H. MoonSECTION 3: MATERIALITY AND EMBODIMENTIntroduction9. Sensorial Cosmologies: Fashion Design and the Embodied Practices of the Wearer Leyla Belkaid-Neri10. 'The Left-Hand Pose': Alchemic Realism and the Intra-Action of Music, Body, and Dress in Metal YogaOtto von Busch11. 'Feeling Premium': Athleisure and the Material Transformation of Sporting Wear Jennifer CraikSECTION 4: MATERIAL EXCHANGES -- FASHION AND MIGRATIONIntroduction12. International Fashion Shows: Creating Transcultural Relationships through ClothingAndrea Hauser13. Entangled Histories: Fashion and the Politics of Migration Elke GaugeleNotes on ContributorsIndex. |
Responsibility: | edited by Heike Jenss, Viola Hofmann. |
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Publisher Synopsis
Far from being "mere clothing," fashion here is shown to reflect the personal, the social, the economic, and the political. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. * CHOICE * [A] welcome and important addition to the literature that furthers current debates in fashion studies and other disciplines. * Eugenia Paulicelli, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA * With a rich historical and geographical span, and through highly engaging case studies, this wonderful collection brings materiality into focus in the field of fashion studies. * Agnes Rocamora, London College of Fashion, UK * Read more...

