1st Edition
Fashion’s Transnational Inequalities Socio-Political, Economic, and Environmental
This book explores the evolving relationship between fashion and transnational capitalism. It examines the inequalities and injustices that this relationship embodies and engenders within the interconnected domains of production, consumption, labour, and environmental ethics. It also considers national and transnational ways of evading, resisting, and dismantling those inequalities and injustices.
An accessible and compelling read, Fashion’s Transnational Inequalities will appeal to students and scholars of fashion, sociology, politics, cultural studies, and all those interested in deconstructing the inequalities that exist in the fashion industry globally.
1. Introduction: Fashion and Transnational Inequalities – What, Where, and Why?
Anna-Mari Almila and Serkan Delice
2. Ethno-Racial Capitalism within Contemporary Fashion: Forced Labour and the Uyghur Crisis
Flavia Loscialpo
3. Where is Living Labour in Fashion and Cultural Appropriation Debates?
Serkan Delice
4. The Sociality of Decolonisation: Making Fashion, Heritage, and Cultural Sustainability in Vietnam
Rimi Khan
5. New Fashion Ethics: Who Has Justice and Value in Fashion?
Kirsi Niinimäki
6. From Stylistic Capital to Stylistic Inequalities: What Style Brings to Individuals, and What It Can Take from Them
Frédéric Godart
7. The Myth of Trickle-Down: How Fashions Do (Not) Spread in European Fashion Magazines, and What This Tells Us about Power and Status in the Global Fashion System
Giselinde Kuipers, Luuc Brans, and Luca Carbone
8. From Paca to Vintage Clothing: Inequality and Border Among Resellers in Monterrey, México
Efrén Sandoval
9. Pandemic Fashions or the Historical Inequality of It All
Anna-Mari Almila
Biography
Anna-Mari Almila is Senior Researcher in Cultural Sociology at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Serkan Delice is Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK.
'This volume makes a timely and much-needed contribution to understanding the fashion system's constraints and potential in responding to pressing issues such as decolonization and the climate crisis by bringing together a remarkable representation of the various ways inequalities manifest themselves in the global fashion arena.'
Simona Serge-Reinach, Associate Professor in Fashion Studies, University of Bologna
