The fabric of cultures : fashion, identity, and globalization / edited by Eugenia Paulicelli and Hazel Clark.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Eugenia Paulicelli and Hazel Clark -- From potlatch to Wal-Mart: courtly and capitalist hierarchies through dress / Jane Schneider -- Dressing the nation: Indian cinema costume and the making of a national fashion, 1947-1957 / Rachel Tu -- Made in America: Paris, New York, and postwar fashion photography / Helena C. Ribeiro -- Framing the self, staging identity: clothing and Italian style in the films of Michelangelo Antonioni (1950-1964) / Eugenia Paulicelli -- The art of dressing: body, gender, and discourse on fashion in Soviet Russia in the 1950s and 1960s / Olga Gurova -- Fashioning appropriate youth in 1990s Vietnam / Ann Marie Leshkowich -- Youth, gender, and secondhand clothing in Lusaka, Zambia: local and global styles / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Fashion design and technologies in a global context / Michiel Scheffer -- Fabricating Greekness: from fustanella to the glossy page / Michael Skafidas -- Fashion Brazil: South American style, culture, and industry / Valéria Brandini -- Fashioning "China style" in the twenty-first century / Hazel Clark -- From factories to fashion: an intern's experience of New York as a global fashion capital / Christina H. Moon.

The Fabric of Cultures examines the impact of fashion as a manufacturing industry and as a culture industry that shapes identities of nations and cities in a cross-cultural perspective and within a global framework.

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