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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsContents: 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.
