Dreams of Small Nations in a Polycentric Fashion World

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ID21147367
AutoresLise Skov (Lise Skov is associate professor of creative industries at Copenhagen Business School. Educated as a sociologist in Denmark and Hong Kong, she has done extensive research on fashion industry and design in Japan, Hong Kong, and Europe. She is the editor of West Europe, Vol. 8 of Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (Berg, 2010)., autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume15
Fascículo2
Páginas137-156
Data de publicação2011-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFashion Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1362-704X • E-ISSN: 1751-7419
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2752/175174111x12954359478609
OpenAlexW2320343632
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas30
Referências citadas24

Fashion production has been split between a globalized clothing industry, which tends towards extreme centralization, and localized designer fashion sectors, acting as intermediaries between international suppliers and national events, media, and public. Under these conditions, designer fashion takes on national significance, in terms of staging events and displays, and engaging with cultural references outside the field of fashion. This article explores how such place-making abilities structure the polycentric world of fashion, taking the United Nations Security Council as a model for the interaction between first- and second-tier fashion cities. The article analyzes the rhetoric of new fashion centers as a traveling discourse that detaches fashion design from the concerns of textile and clothing industries and links it with those of cultural institutions and governments. It also examines how notions of cultural superiority have held European designers back from giving local flavor to their designs, but how there has recently been an approximation between fashion and folk culture

Aesthetics · Art · Economic geography · Geography · Visual arts · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Fashion and Cultural Textiles