The Japanese revolution in Paris fashion : Dress, body, culture 1st ed.

Author

• Kawamura, Yuniya

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Oxford: Berg, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9781847888907

Series

Dress, body, culture

Subject(s)

• FASHION DESIGNERS
• FASHION--ASIAN INFLUENCES
• JAPAN

Notes

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Abstract

Despite recent challenges from New York, London and Milan, Paris is renowned as the greatest fashion capital in the world. Its distinctive categorization of haute couture, demi-couture, and prt--porter reflects a highly structured and tightly controlled system that non-western designers have had difficulty penetrating. Yet a number of the most influential Japanese designers have broken into this scene and made a major impact. How?

Paris couturiers and designers operate a gate-keeping system that is not only exclusive and rigorous but highly demanding. But, Kawamura asks, does the system facilitate or inhibit new forms of creativity? She shows how traditional French fashion has been both disturbed and strengthened by the addition of outside forces such as Kenzo Takada, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo and Hanae Mori. At the same time she considers many other key questions the contemporary fashion industry should be asking itself. Has it, for example, become primarily preoccupied with the commercial projection of product images rather than with the clothing itself? And what direction will French fashion take without Saint Laurent, Miyake and Kenzo?

This insightful book provides the first in-depth study of the Japanese revolution in Paris fashion and raises provocative questions for the future of the industry.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (x, 194 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

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Out of women's hands: notes on Venetian glass beads, female labour and international trades / Francesca Trivellato --
Gender in African beadwork: an overview / Margret Carey --
Beaded and bedecked Kalabari of Nigeria / Joanne B. Eicher --
Lantana beads: gender issues in their production and use / Ann O'Hear --
A short history of rosaries in the Andes / Penny Dransart --
Why do they like red? Beads, ethnicity and gender in Ecuador / Lynn A. Meisch --
African American jewellery before the Civil War / Helen Bradley Foster --
Beads and breasts: the negotiation of gender roles and power at New Orleans Mardi Gras / Laurie A. Wilkie --
Beads, prestige and life among the Kelabit of Sarawak, East Malaysia / Monica Janowski --
Greek beads of the Mycenaean period (ca 1650-1100 BC): the age of the heroines of Greek tradition and mythology / Helen Hughes-Brock --
An archaeological investigation into ancient Chinese beads / Cecilia Braghin --
What beads mean to craft producers supported by Oxfam / Carol Wills --
Don't get your neckless in a twist! Often-used specialist bead terms and their definitions for researchers and collectors / Stefany Tomalin.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00015/22	746.92092 Kaw J	Online !	Available