Research Catalog

Title

Contemporary Indonesian fashion : through the looking glass / Alessandra Lopez y Royo.

Author

Lopez y Royo, Alessandra

Publication

• London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Description

xxxiii, 216 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.

Summary

Indonesian fashion has undergone a period of rapid growth over the last three decades. This book explores how through years of social, political, and cultural upheaval, the country's fashion has moved away from "colonial fashion" and "national dress" to claim its own distinct identity as contemporary fashion in a global world. With specific reference to women's wear, Contemporary Indonesian Fashion explores the diversity and complexity of the country's sartorial offerings, which weave together local textile traditions like batik and ikat-making with contemporary narratives. The book questions concepts of "tradition" and "modernity" in the developing world, taking stock of the elite consumption of luxury brands and the large-scale manufacturing of fast fashion, and introduces us to the rise of new trends such as busana muslim (or "modest wear"), creating a portrait of a vibrant and growing national and, increasingly, international, industry. Exploring clothing in shopping malls, on the catwalk, in magazines, and online, the book examines how Indonesian fashion is made, presented, and consumed, combining research in Indonesia with analysis and personal reflection. Contemporary Indonesian Fashion ultimately questions the deeply entrenched eurocentrism of "global fashion", simultaneously interrogating current homogenizing beauty and body image discourses posited as universal, by pointing to absences, silences, and erasures as reflected by contemporary Indonesian fashion- hence the "looking glass" of the title. Aptly illustrated, the book offers a new perspective on a rapidly developing new fashion capital, Jakarta.

Series Statement

Dress and fashion research

Uniform Title

Dress and fashion research.

Subjects

• Indonesia
• Fashion design > Indonesia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-203) and index.

Contents

1. A brief history of fashion in Indonesia -- 2. Performing fashion: fashion weeks, fashion events, fashion-as-art -- 3. "Made in Indonesia" for the global stage -- 4. Fashion in print and online: digitalizing beauty and style -- 5. Visiting malls and buying online: shopping for style -- 6. Wearing clothes, styling the self: Indonesian women and fashion.

Call Number

JFE 20-3012

ISBN

• 9781350061309
• 1350061301

OCLC

1083288385

Author

Lopez y Royo, Alessandra, author.

Title

Contemporary Indonesian fashion : through the looking glass / Alessandra Lopez y Royo.

Publisher

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Dress and fashion research

Dress and fashion research.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-203) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-3012