| Description |
1 online resource (260 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Half Title -- Canadian Critical Luxury Studies: Decentring Luxury -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Critical luxury studies: An overview -- Aporetic luxury -- Luxury as community capital -- Canadian critical luxury studies -- Notes -- Part 1 Resurgence and Revision -- 1 Luxury and Indigenous Resurgence -- Front matter -- Situating ourselves -- What is Indigenous luxury? -- Luxury and Indigenous resurgence -- Indigenous luxury, critical luxury studies and capitalism -- Indigenous methodologies |
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The future of Indigenous luxury -- 2 Putting Canada on the Map: A Brief History of Nation and Luxury -- The early modern fur trade -- Nineteenth-century wilderness tourism -- Twentieth-century garment production -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 3 From Unvalued to Surplus Value: 'Made-in-Canada' Luxury at Eaton's in the 1920s -- Creating 'Canadian-made' surplus value -- What is the value of Canadian luxury? -- What is democratized luxury? -- Refinement and the civic luxury -- Cataloguing the luxury of modernity -- Made-in-Canada cultural capital -- Building Canadian luxury -- Conclusion -- Notes |
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Part 2 Space and Place -- 4 Runway off the Mink Mile: Toronto Fashion Week and the Glamour and Luxury of Yorkville -- Laying down the runway: Toronto Fashion Week's beginnings -- Tracing the geographies of luxury and glamour in 1960s Yorkville -- Yorkville's performance of glamour and luxury -- Toronto Fashion Week in Yorkville -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Vancouver's Monuments to Capital: Public Art, Spatial Capital and Luxury -- Public art, place-making and Vancouver -- Celebratory and critical: Public monuments and place in Vancouver -- Cultural capital, 'spatial luxury' and public art |
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Vancouver and the 2010 Olympic Games -- Merchandise and the commodification of place -- Notes -- Part 3 Future of Canadian Lixury -- 6 Beyond the Catwalk: What Happens When Luxury Meets Digital? -- When digital meets with tradition -- Emerging forms of digital luxe -- The digital luxe experience -- Notes -- 7 Contemporary Case Studies of Performative Wearables -- The Wearable Performs -- Anouk Wipprecht: 'Spider Dress' (2014) -- Context -- Background -- Laboratory culture -- Technology -- Fashion-tech -- Collaboration -- Bodies/interaction -- Diffus Studio: 'Climate Dress' (2009) -- Context |
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Background -- Laboratory culture -- Technology -- Fashion -- Body/interaction -- 3lectromode: Strokes&Dots (2013) -- Context -- Background -- Laboratory culture -- Technology -- Fashion -- Body/interaction -- XS Labs: Captain Electric and Battery Boy (2010) -- Context -- Background -- Laboratory culture -- Technology -- Body/interaction -- Conclusion: Wearables as performative -- Notes -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
The first study of Canada's historical, economic and cultural relationship to luxury. From the fur trade to Indigenous resurgence, Eaton's Made-in-Canada campaign to Toronto Fashion Week, Vancouver public artworks to Montréal's fashiontech sector, this collection explains what makes Canadian luxury. 19 b/w illus |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Subject |
Luxury -- Social aspects -- Canada -- History
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Luxuries -- China -- History
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The arts.
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Cultural studies.
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Media studies.
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Canada.
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Fashion design & theory.
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DESIGN / Fashion
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Luxuries
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Canada
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China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lezama, Nigel
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| ISBN |
9781789385168 |
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1789385164 |
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9781789385175 |
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1789385172 |
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