Fabric of Cultures

<p>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. </p><p><em>The Fabric of Cultures</em> examines 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. </p><p>Highly illustrated and including essays from all over the world <em>The Fabric of Cultures</em> provides a comprehensive survey of the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on fashion identity and globalisation. </p>