Publication

2019 - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Language

English

Word Count

78,000 words, Guess

Page Count

312 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781350057814
  • ISBN-101350057819
  • Better World Books9781350057814
  • Open LibraryOL29364258M

Classifications

  • LCCGT511

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"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Fashion and MaterialityBloomsbury Publishing Plc2019

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