Rethinking Fashion Globalization

This timely, vital book showcases the plurality of fashion systems, cultures and industries, across time and space.

This timely, vital book showcases the plurality of fashion systems, cultures and industries, across time and space.

Leads the way in responding to the current surge of transdisciplinary interest across universities all over the world in key issues of decolonization, post-colonialism, national identity, social activism, global fashion narratives and diverse voices. Chapters are brimming with fresh, in-depth and meticulous research examining these issues through the vehicle of clothing, dress, fashion, textiles, and their media presence. The book’s many images enable the reader to make full sense of the texts.

Sarah Cheang is Acting Head of the History of Design programme at the Royal College of Art, UK. Her research interests centre on transnational fashion, material culture and the body and she is the co-editor of Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion (Berg, 2008).

Erica de Greef is Director and Co-Founder of the African Fashion Research Institute. She leads the Decolonial Fashion hub in Africa for the Research Collective for Decolonising Fashion, and has published in numerous journals and edited collections. She has also lectured widely in the field of fashion curation and fashion pedagogy in South Africa.

Yoko Takagi is Professor and Programme Director of MA Global Fashion Concentration at Bunka Gakuen University, Tokyo. Focusing on transboundary aspects of fashion and textile from the end of the 19th century to present day, she has contributed to publications and exhibition curation. She hosts the Transboundary Fashion Seminar.