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Canadian Fashion Economies

A Select History of Fashion Culture, Commerce, and Colonization
Buch | Hardcover
208 Seiten
2025
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-35736-5 (ISBN)
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A vital re-examination of Canadian cultural and commercial history told through key fashion objects from First Nations, colonial settlers, and contemporary Canadian culture.

Traditional narratives of fashion tend to ignore sophisticated pre-colonial networks, First Nation innovations and techniques, and their contributions to colonial dress. From exquisite Chilkat weavings to the iconic Hudson’s Bay Company blanket coat, by way of ribbon skirts, quilts, and a beaver-fur top hat, this rich study uses Canadian fashion objects as a research tool to illuminate neglected areas in North American fashion history.

Using vivid object-based research, O’Connell maps out pre-colonial economic networks spanning the entire continent, global colonial textile and fur trades, and the material culture of French and English migrant populations in the ‘New World’, and equips readers with a framework for more nuanced and inclusive histories of Canadian culture and commerce.

Unexpected, overlooked stories emerge as central to Canada’s fashion history, from hybrid fashion cultures to re-used textiles in settler communities, and O’Connell highlights contemporary Canadian artists and designers who point to new possibilities to reclaim and preserve this cultural heritage.

Mark Joseph O’Connell PhD is Professor of Fashion Studies at Seneca College, Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Lilac Time at the Rodeo (2021). His essays have been published in Fashion Theory; Textile the Journal of Cloth and Culture; Fashion, Style & Popular Culture and Fashion Studies. He has lectured on fashion, material culture and craft-based social justice movements in the U.S., Mexico and Canada (in English and Spanish). Prior to teaching, Mark worked as a designer both in-house at M.A.C Cosmetics and for his own clothing line, Modular Menswear.

Foreword

Introduction

1. Canadian Couture? Tsimshian & Tlingit Weaving

2. The Beaver Hat: Driver of Colonial Expansion

3. The HBC Blanket Coat: New Material for New Worlds

4. Fugitive Pieces: Quilted Memories and Ribbon Skirts

5. New Industry for a New World: Canadian Colonial Fashion Ephemera

Conclusion: Modern Chilkats

Bibliography
Notes
Glossary
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 17.4.2025
Zusatzinfo 16 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Wirtschaft
ISBN-10 1-350-35736-7 / 1350357367
ISBN-13 978-1-350-35736-5 / 9781350357365
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