Contemporary Indonesian Fashion

Through the Looking Glass

Dr Alessandra Lopez y Royo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-23795-7 (ISBN)

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Indonesian fashion has undergone a period of rapid growth over the last three decades. This book explores how through years of social, political, and cultural upheaval, the country’s fashion has moved away from “colonial fashion” and “national dress” to claim its own distinct identity as contemporary fashion in a global world.

With specific reference to women’s wear, Contemporary Indonesian Fashion explores the diversity and complexity of the country’s sartorial offerings, which weave together local textile traditions like batik and ikat-making with contemporary narratives. The book questions concepts of “tradition” and “modernity” in the developing world, taking stock of the elite consumption of luxury brands and the large-scale manufacturing of fast fashion, and introduces us to the rise of new trends such as busana muslim (or “modest wear”), creating a portrait of a vibrant and growing national and, increasingly, international, industry.

Exploring clothing in shopping malls, on the catwalk, in magazines, and online, the book examines how Indonesian fashion is made, presented, and consumed, combining research in Indonesia with analysis and personal reflection. Contemporary Indonesian Fashion ultimately questions the deeply entrenched eurocentrism of "global fashion", simultaneously interrogating current homogenizing beauty and body image discourses posited as universal, by pointing to absences, silences, and erasures as reflected by contemporary Indonesian fashion— hence the "looking glass" of the title. Aptly illustrated, the book offers a new perspective on a rapidly developing new fashion capital, Jakarta.

Alessandra Lopez y Royo (aka Alex Bruni) is an academic, a fashion activist and writer, a blogger, and a fashion model. A Londoner by choice, she is a member of the Grey Collective UK, which brings together multi-faceted talent and creatives over the age of thirty-five.

Acknowledgments
Note on Spelling
Prologue

I. Indonesian chic past and present
1. A brief history of fashion in Indonesia

II. Presenting Fashion
2. Performing fashion: fashion weeks, fashion events, fashion-as-art
3. ‘Made in Indonesia’ for the global stage

III. Mediating Fashion
4. Fashion in print and online: digitalising beauty and style

IV. Consuming Fashion
5. Visiting malls and buying online: shopping for style
6. Wearing clothes, styling the self: Indonesian women and fashion

Epilogue

List of Illustrations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.07.2021
Reihe/Serie	Dress and Fashion Research
Zusatzinfo	40 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 232 mm
Gewicht	380 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-350-23795-7 / 1350237957
ISBN-13	978-1-350-23795-7 / 9781350237957
Zustand	Neuware