Artful Decoloniality
The Politics of Fashion as Art in 20th and 21st Century Vietnam
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12588116 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martina Thucnhi Nguyen (corresponding author), Ann Marie Leshkowich |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 355-381 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-09 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Fashion Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-704X • E-ISSN: 1751-7419 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1362704x.2022.2109690 |
| OpenAlex | W4319841733 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
Drawing on two case studies of designers whose work centered on the Vietnamese aó dài, one from the 1930s and the other the 2010s–2020s, this article considers how desires to construe fashion as art and the designer as fine artist have been implicated in transnational circuits of symbolic and material value, as well as colonial and postcolonial power relations. While decolonial scholarship on fashion has called for attention to diverse dress practices that are external to modernity and coloniality, this article argues that artist-designers’ demands for recognition of Vietnamese dress within universalizing systems of fashion and art can also constitute a decolonial move because they highlight the plurality at the heart of fashion’s aesthetic and material regime. At the same time, the designers’ creative processes often grapple with internalized discourses of essentialized Vietnamese identities that have emerged within a patriarchal context and have tended to deploy the clothed bodies of women. In simultaneously positioning their fashion as art and asserting an essentialized national identity, Vietnamese designers in different temporal contexts have both constituted and challenged the ideological and material contours of the raced, gendered, and classed hierarchies of modernity, coloniality, and fashion
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Identity (music · Ideology · Linguistics · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Scholarship · Sociology · Vietnamese · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |