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Author Bhachu, Parminder

Title Dangerous Designs : Asian Women Fashion the Diaspora Economies
Published London : Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (208 pages)
Contents BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATIONS; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. CULTURAL NARRATIVES OF THE SUIT; 2. ETHNICIZED CONSUMPTION; 3. PIONEERING FASHION ENTREPRENEUR; 4. SECOND-GENERATION DESIGN GLOBALIZER; 5. SELLING THE NATION; 6. SELLING ART CLOTHES IN CLASSED MARKETS; 7. DAMINIS; 8. NETWORKING MARKETERS OF READYMADE SUITS; 9. DIASPORIC SINA-PRONA; 10. DESIGNING DIASPORAS THROUGH SKETCHES; GLOSSARY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary Dangerous Designs tells the story of Asian fashion in the West, and describes how Asian dress has become culturally charged and powerfully coded, defining contemporary cultural and economic borders
Notes Print version record
Subject Fashion -- Asian influences -- History -- 20th century
Costume design -- Asian influences -- History -- 20th century
Women fashion designers -- Asia -- History -- 20th century
Suits (Clothing)
Costume design -- Asian influences
Fashion -- Asian influences
Suits (Clothing)
Women fashion designers
Asia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203481493
0203481496