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Fashion and Materiality Cultural Practices in Global Contexts

Call no.: : 391 FAS
Author: : Edited by Heiki Jenss and Viola Hofmann
Contributor: : Nur Farhan Bin Aini
Summary: Fashion is personally attached to the material world. With an attention on assorted social practices, this book offers new experiences into the powerful connections between style, bodies, and material culture. In a progression of unique contextual investigations, both authentic and contemporary, the assortment investigates what style and attire mean for verbalisations of body and self, encounters of general setting, and the shaping of social and local /global connections. Fashion and Materiality takes the reader from the study of clothes and biography, to an early modern "foreign dress" collection, to Chinoiserie apparel in 18th-century Europe, and fast fashion production in today`s China, with chapters written by top worldwide researchers. The book also looks at the role of fashion in nation-building and the intersections of fashion and migration, such as garment contributions for Syrian refugees in Germany and the transmission of "refugee chic" on international fashion runways. The book examines the complex relationships between fashion, clothes, materiality, and humanity, demonstrating how the material interacts with the personal and political in powerful ways.