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> <p>List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction <em>Eugenia Paulicelli and Hazel Clark</em> 1. From Potlach to Wal-Mart: Courtly and Capitalist Hierarchies through Dress <em>Jane Schneider</em> 2. Dressing the Nation: Indian Cinema Costume and the Making of a National Fashion, 1947-1957 <em>Rachel Morris</em> 3. Made in America: Paris, New York, and Postwar Fashion Photography <em>Helena Cunha Ribeiro</em> 4. Framing the Self, Staging Identity: Clothing and Italian Style in the Films of Michelangelo Antonioni (1950-1964) <em>Eugenia Paulicelli</em> 5. The Art of Dressing. Body, Gender and Discourse on fashion in Soviet Russia in the 1950s and 1960s <em>Olga Gurova</em> 6. Making Modernity Appropriate and Tradition Fashionable: Debates about Dress, Identity, and Gender in Ho Chi Minh City <em>Ann Marie Leshkowich</em> 7. Youth, Gender, and Secondhand Clothing in Lusaka, Zambia: Local and Global Styles <em>Karen Tranberg Hansen</em> 8. Fashion Design and Technologies in a Global Context <em>Michiel Scheffer</em> 9. Fabricating Greekness: from Fustanella to the Glossy Page <em>Michael Skafidas</em> 10. Fashion Brazil: South American Style, Culture and Industry <em>Valéria Brandini</em> 11. Fashioning "China Style" in the Twenty First Century <em>Hazel Clark</em> 12. From Factories to Fashion: An Intern’s Experience of a Global Fashion Capital <em>Christina H. Moon</em> Index</p>