Overview

The focus of «Fusion Fashion» is on Orientalism as a sartorial practice, which has to be differentiated from the common knowledge of Orientalism by means of its organization, constitution and reception. The book offers historic as well as systematic perspectives. On the one hand, it compares orientalizing practices in fashion since the Tang Period in China and European Renaissance. On the other hand, it highlights current tendencies of so called «orientalism», «self-orientalism», «occidentalism» in a globalized world. The book covers two time periods: Orientalized fashion practices from the 16th to the beginning of the 20th century, with an emphasis on European «Oriental» practices, and the period beginning in the 1990s up to the present day, with an emphasis on non-Western sartorial practices.

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Author:   Gertrud Lehnert ,  Gabriele Mentges
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.230kg
ISBN:  

9783631609750

ISBN 10:   3631609752
Pages:   164
Publication Date:   27 June 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Gertrud Lehnert/Gabriele Mentges: Fusion Fashion. Culture beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism – Buyun Chen: Toward a definition of «fashion» in Tang China (618-907 CE) – Gabriele Mentges: Drawing Borders: Perceptions of the Cultural Other in Renaissance Costume Books – Gertrud Lehnert: Orientalism in the 18th and 19th Century Fashion Magazines – Mona Abaza: The Motahajiba in Cairo, Inter-Arab Islamic chic, Adaptation, Hybridity and Globalization – Pravina Shukla: Fashion in the East: Dress in Modern India – Yuniya Kawamura: The Globalization of Japanese Lolita Fashion – Oly Firsching-Tovar: Reviving Kimono: Fashion as Memory at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century – Daniel Devoucoux : Bollywood, ou la réinvention de l´orientalisme et de l´occidentalisme dans le cinéma indien actuel.

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Gertrud Lehnert is Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Potsdam. Her research focuses on the theory and history of fashion and on gender history. Gabriele Mentges is Professor of Cultural Anthropology of Material Culture at the department Art and Material Culture, Technical University of Dortmund, research and teaching focus on fashion history, museology, design history, body and gender history.

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