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Zusatztext With a rich historical and geographical span, and through highly engaging case studies, this wonderful collection brings materiality into focus in the field of fashion studies. Informationen zum Autor Heike Jenss is Associate Professor of Fashion Studies, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, USA. Klappentext Fashion is intimately tied to the material world. With a focus on diverse cultural practices, this book offers new insights into the dynamic relationships between fashion, bodies, and material culture. In a series of original case studies, both historical and contemporary, the collection explores how fashion and clothing affect articulations of body and self, experiences of time and place, and the shaping of social and local/global relationships.With chapters from leading international scholars, Fashion and Materiality takes the reader from the study of clothing and biography, and an early modern "foreign dress" collection, to Chinoiserie clothing in 18th-century Europe and fast fashion production in today's China. The book also examines fashion's role in nation building, and entanglements between fashion and migration across clothing donations for Syrian refugees in Germany and the circulation of "refugee chic" on international fashion runways. Scrutinizing the dense connections between fashion, clothing, materiality, and humanity, the book shows how the material interacts forcefully with the personal and political. Vorwort A new book focusing on the relationship between fashion, bodies and material culture, using a range of original historical and contemporary case studies. Zusammenfassung Fashion is intimately tied to the material world. With a focus on diverse cultural practices, this book offers new insights into the dynamic relationships between fashion, bodies, and material culture. In a series of original case studies, both historical and contemporary, the collection explores how fashion and clothing affect articulations of body and self, experiences of time and place, and the shaping of social and local/global relationships.With chapters from leading international scholars, Fashion and Materiality takes the reader from the study of clothing and biography, and an early modern “foreign dress” collection, to Chinoiserie clothing in 18th-century Europe and fast fashion production in today’s China. The book also examines fashion’s role in nation building, and entanglements between fashion and migration across clothing donations for Syrian refugees in Germany and the circulation of “refugee chic” on international fashion runways. Scrutinizing the dense connections between fashion, clothing, materiality, and humanity, the book shows how the material interacts forcefully with the personal and political. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Fashion and Materiality Heike Jenss and Viola HofmannSECTION 1: FASHION AND CLOTHING – MATERIALS IN TIME AND PLACEIntroduction 1. Material Subjects: Making Place, Making Time through Fashion Susan Kaiser 2. Dressed Lives: Biography, Emotion, and Materiality Christel Köhle-Hezinger 3. The Discovery of Materiality: On Archaeological Clothing Finds, Representation and Knowledge Formation Daniel Devoucoux 4. Appropriating the World through Clothing: Christoph Kress’ Foreign Dress Collection Jutta Zander-SeidelSECTION 2: MATERIALITY IN MOTION – TRANSNATIONAL CIRCUITS OF FASHION Introduction 5. Chinoiserie in Fashion: Material Images Circulating Between China and Europe Daniel Purdy 6. Tradition in Fashion: Golden Embroidery and the Crafting of Heritage in Bukhara Lola Shamukhitdinova 7. “Our Dress”: Chitenge as Zambia’s National Fabric Karen Tranberg Hansen 8. “Made in China”: Material Meanderings of Fast-Fashion Ci...
