Ethnic Fashion

Ethnic Fashion

Author: Miguel Angel Gardetti

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9811007659

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This is the first book to introduce readers to the crux of ethnic fashion. Covering all aspects, it addresses the significance of sustainability (including culture) and ethnic fashion in the apparel industry. It also highlights concepts and case studies pertaining to ethnic fashion.


Ethnic Style

Ethnic Style

Author: Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter

Publisher: Editions Assouline

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 9782843232909

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Describes traditional and ceremonial clothing and jewelry from around the world.


Luxury and Fashion Marketing

Luxury and Fashion Marketing

Author: Satyendra Singh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-06

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1351269585

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The globalization of the world’s markets has forced luxury brands to, in turn, become global and accessible in many developing countries and emerging markets. As a result, the demand for these luxury products has increased globally, creating a need for an education in luxury that acknowledges the global perspective yet, at the same time, incorporates subtle regional nuances into luxury and fashion marketing. Keeping this global and regional perspective, Luxury and Fashion Marketing: The Global Perspective examines the elements of luxury marketing that contribute to superior luxury brand performance. Specifically, this volume focuses on mission statements, logos, airport retailing, franchising, challenges in luxury marketing, fashion relating to politics, environment, and beachwear, and case studies on luxury brands and emerging markets. Luxury and Fashion Marketing: The Global Perspective is unique in that it is written in a simple and engaging style to explain the theories and concepts of luxury in relation to the ordinary in the global context. Each chapter has to-do activities, making the book essential reading for students, trainers, and practitioners interested in luxury and fashion marketing and management.


Fashion Nation

Fashion Nation

Author: Sandra Tomc

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0472129015

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Fashion Nation argues that popular images of the United States as a place of glitter and lights, of gaudy costumes and dizzying visual surfaces—usually understood as features of technomodernity—were in fact brewed in the rich, strange world of early nineteenth-century British and European folk nationalism when nations were compelled to offer visual manifestations of their allegedly true ancestral form. Showing that folk and ethnic nationalism played a central role in writing and culture, the book draws on a rare and colorful visual archive of national costumes, cartoons, theatrical spectacles, and immersive entertainments to show how the United States sprung to life as a visual space for transatlantic audiences. Fashion Nation not only includes chapters on major U.S. travel writers like Nathaniel Parker Willis and James Fenimore Cooper, but it also presents explorations of the vogue for folk and ethnic costume, the role of Indigenous dress in Wild West spectacles, and the nationalistic décor on display at late nineteenth-century world’s fairs and amusement parks. Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated, Fashion Nation opens the door to a forgotten legacy of visual symbols that still inhabit ethnic and white nationalism in the United States today, showing how fantasies of glittery surfaces were designed to draw the eye away from a sordid history.


About Face

About Face

Author: Dorinne Kondo

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-03

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1136657916

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From the runways of Paris to the casting controversies over BMiss Saigon, from a local demonstration at the Claremont Colleges in California to the gender-blending of BM. Butterfly, BAbout Face examines representations of Asia and their reverberations in both Asia and Asian American lives. Japanese high fashion and Asian American theater become points of entry into the politics of pleasure, the performance of racial identities, and the possibility of political intervention in commodity capitalism. Based on Kondo's fieldwork, this interdisciplinary work brings together essays, interviews with designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons and playwright David Henry Hwang, and "personal" vignettes in its exploration of counter-Orientalisms.


Ethnic Dress

Ethnic Dress

Author: Frances Kennett

Publisher: Checkmark Books

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780816031368

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Arranged by region of the world, illustrates contemporary native folk costume, from the complex embroidery found on Scandinavian decorative dresses to the various styles of face veils worn by Middle Eastern women


Clothing Matters

Clothing Matters

Author: Emma Tarlo

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1996-09

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780226789767

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What do I wear today? The way we answer this question says much about how we manage and express our identities. This detailed study examines sartorial style in India from the late nineteenth century to the present, showing how trends in clothing are related to caste, level of education, urbanization, and a larger cultural debate about the nature of Indian identity. Clothes have been used to assert power, challenge authority, and instigate social change throughout Indian society. During the struggle for independence, members of the Indian elite incorporated elements of Western style into their clothes, while Gandhi's adoption of the loincloth symbolized the rejection of European power and the contrast between Indian poverty and British wealth. Similar tensions are played out today, with urban Indians adopting "ethnic" dress as villagers seek modern fashions. Illustrated with photographs, satirical drawings, and magazine advertisements, this book shows how individuals and groups play with history and culture as they decide what to wear.


Archiv 61-62

Archiv 61-62

Author: Weltmuseum Wien Friends

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published:

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 3643998376

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Innovation, Research and Development and Capital Evaluation

Innovation, Research and Development and Capital Evaluation

Author: Luigi Aldieri

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2022-06-08

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1803555041

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The role of innovation is becoming increasingly crucial in modern societies. In particular, investments in Research and Development represent an important tool for promoting innovation and for enhancing the capital invested in the market. By now, innovation is linked with different concepts, from entrepreneurship to sustainability, from economics to management. The analysis of the innovation process involves different skills to overcome the high degree of competitiveness and allow higher levels of profits. In the text, the interactions among innovation, entrepreneurship, and ecosystems are investigated. It is an attempt to prepare the theoretical bases to face in an appropriate way the transformations of modern economic and organizational systems and to suggest adequate support policies.


Sustainability Challenges in the Fashion Industry

Sustainability Challenges in the Fashion Industry

Author: Miguel Ángel Gardetti

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-06-10

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9819903491

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Fashion, and the growth of fashion, are presented as the manifestation of a process of civilization, within a capitalist culture (capital understood as material possessions) that has become global and imperialist, of which - in an economic sense - the industry (or the fashion system?) functions as one of its main instruments of exploitation. And with respect to design, Arturo Escobar said: "Can design detach itself from its roots in modernist practices of unsustainability and defuturization and reorient itself towards other commitments, practices, narratives and ontological enactions? Moreover, can design be part of the toolkit for the transition to the pluriverze (i.e. a world in which many worlds can fit)?" This book presents the importance of cultural sustainability in the textiles and fashion industry, decolonizing fashion system and promotes the design for transitions.