Re-Imagining African Diasporic Fashion
Fashion is watching divine spirits dressed in serene testimonials. Backstage is where these...
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Indigenous Resistance in Latin American Fashion
The development of the global fashion system as we know it is directly linked with colonialism and...
Refashioning Traditional Wear
This week’s roundup features contemporary narratives of traditional wear around the world....
De-centering Luxury
The word “luxury” is often mentioned in relation to fashion. But, what, exactly, is...
The Body Politics of Fashion and Gender
This week’s roundup explores the complex relationship between fashion, race, the body, and gender...
Globalizing Muslim Fashion
This week’s reading list takes a global perspective on approaching Muslim fashion. From the...
Indigenous Resistance in Latin American Fashion
The development of the global fashion system as we know it is directly linked with colonialism and...
Global Fashion Cities
Hegemonic narratives of fashion established four traditional ‘fashion capitals’ in the...
Decolonizing Sustainable Fashion
The necessity to create a more sustainable fashion industry has become increasingly eminent in the past decade or so.
Globalizing Muslim Fashion
This week’s reading list takes a global perspective on approaching Muslim fashion. From the...
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Fashioning African Textiles
This week’s reading list highlights five sources from our Library that explore the complex relationship between textiles and the cultures of the African diaspora.
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Fashioning Black Resistance
Fashion and self-fashioning have remained important and highly visible aspects of organizing and movements of resistance.
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Podcast Episodes Highlighting Black Fashion History
This list features dynamic conversations about Black fashion history, including interviews with Black artists, academics, and cultural commentators.
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Decolonizing Fashion
The fashion industry was — and still is — built on a colonial model of extraction and exploitation, often at the expense of the environment and human rights.
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Fashioning Black Masculinity
While gender and fashion are distinct from one another, their abilities to signify, reflect, and shape each other are significant and often important sites of cultural meaning and definition.
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Fashioning Black Femininity
While gender and fashion are distinct from one another, their abilities to signify, reflect, and shape each other are significant and often important sites of cultural meaning and definition.
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Contemporary Latin American Fashion
The word “fashion” is often thought of as a “misnomer” in Latin America. Paradoxically, Latin American fashion has become more and more desirable around the world.
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Representing Race in Colonial Latin America
Constructs of race are the result of colonial enterprises and thought. Since the Spanish and Portuguese invasion of what we now call ‘Latin America,’ class, social economy, and cultural habits became important factors to categorize social groups into different ‘races.’
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Fashion and the Body
The relationship between fashion and the body is integral to our understanding of our social and material lives.
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Fashion in China Through the Centuries
China has developed a unique fashion system since at least a millennium. In Tang dynasty China (618–907), for example, changes in dress and shifts in the perceptions of dress reveal the emergence of a fashion system.
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Black Fashion Exhibitions
The museum is an essential space within historiographical discourses because it facilitates, in part, the ways we collectively remember our pasts and the ways in which we create and curate our own histories.
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Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Dress
Dress was a marker of identity to the peoples of Mesoamerica before the Spanish invasion. To the Aztecs, the wearing of appropriate clothing was strictly controlled by both custom and law.
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