The Fabric of Cultures Fashion, Identity, and Globalization [Paperback]

Fashion is both public and private, material and symbolic, always caught within the lived experience and providing an incredible tool to study culture and history.

The Fabric of Culturesexamines the impact of fashion as a manufacturing industry and as a culture industry that shapes the identities of nations and cities in a cross-cultural perspective, within a global framework.  The collected essays investigate local and global economies, cultures and identities and the book offers for the first time, a wide spectrum of case studies which focus on a diversity of geographical spaces and places, from global capitals of fashion such as New York, to countries less known or identifiable for fashion such as contemporary Greece and soviet Russia.

Highly illustrated and including essays from all over the world, The Fabric of Culturesprovides a comprehensive survey of the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on fashion, identity and globalisation.

List of Figures  Notes on Contributors  Acknowledgements  Introduction Eugenia Paulicelli and Hazel Clark  1. From Potlach to Wal-Mart: Courtly and Capitalist Hierarchies through Dress Jane Schneider  2. Dressing the Nation: Indian Cinema Costume and the Making of a National Fashion, 1947-1957 Rachel Morris  3. Made in America: Paris, New York, and Postwar Fashion Photography Helena Cunha Ribeiro  4. Framing the Self, Staging Identity: Clothing and Italian Style in the Films of Michelangelo Antonioni (1950-1964) Eugenia Paulicelli  5. The Art of Dressing. Body, Gender and Discourse on fashion in Soviet Russia in the 1950s and 1960s Olga Gurova  6. Making Modernity Appropriate and Tradition Fashionable: Debates about Dress, Identity, and Gender in Ho Chi Minh City Annlƒn