Surge Peruano, Surge! Towards a cartography of independent fashion design in Peru

Bibliographic Data

ID23029025
AuthorsLucia Cuba (Procesos Peruanos, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume3
Issue1
Pages51-62
Publication date2015-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFashion Style & Popular Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2050-0726 • E-ISSN: 2050-0734
PublisherIntellect (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1386/fspc.3.1.51_1
OpenAlexW4236089064
LanguageEN
Citations received3

This article explores notions of independent fashion design in Peru, addressing two actors within the local fashion design and textile systems that have played an important and relational role in its emergence: independent fashion designers and the Gamarra Commercial Emporium (or Gamarra) in Lima. Notions of independent fashion are explored in terms of their impact in contemporary fashion practices in Peru, aiming to go beyond a singular notion of independent fashion design. I will argue that a cartography of independent fashion design in Peru should account for the multiple voices and trajectories of the actors that shape it, considering independent fashion design as a movement of economic and affective dimensions. The article presents the story of Amapolay: Independent Manufacturers as a case study and one of many paths that shape the emerging fashion systems of independent design in Peru. It highlights the need to produce empirical research on emerging and independent design practices in the region, considering the experience of Peru as one of several national routes of independent design in Latin America that merit further study and theorization.

Clothing · Economic geography · Fashion design · Fashion industry · Geography · Latin Americans · Political science · Sociology · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Fashion and Cultural Textiles

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