Rethinking Fashion Globalization

Foreword / Angela Jansen (Chair of the Research Collective for Decolonizing Fashion) -- 1. Introduction: Decolonial critiques of fashion globalization and de-globalization / (co-authored by the editors) -- Section I. Disruptions in time and space. Introduction / Sarah Cheang (Royal College of Art, UK) ; 2. Kimono migrating across borders: a preliminary study into the discovery of Waso culture outside of Japan / Yoko Takagi (Bunka Gakuen University, Japan) & Saskia Thoelen (Bunka Gakuen University, Japan) ; 3. East Asian global connections and fashion histories / Sarah Cheang (Royal College of Art, UK) and Elizabeth Kramer (University of Northumbria, UK) ; 4. Surinamese Kotomisi: multiple identities of fashion / Daan van Dartel (National Museum of World Cultures, the Netherlands) ; 5. Coats and trousers: redrawing the map to rescript the narrative / Abby Lillethun (Montclair State University, USA) and Linda Welters (University of Rhode Island, USA) -- Section II. Nationalism and transnationalism. Introduction / Erica de Greef (independent fashion curator, Cape Town, South Africa). 6. #OWNYOURCULTURE -- decolonising fashion through traditional jewelry / Chepkemboi J Mang'ira (OwnYourCulture, Nairobi) ; 7. Kawaii fashion discourse in the 21st century: transnationalising actors / Kyoko Koma (Meiji University, Japan) ; 8. Melancholia at the margins: place and history in the fashion of Aotearoa New Zealand / Harriette Richards (Western Sydney University, Australia) ; 9. Negotiating identities: the fashion of Nyonyas in early twentieth century Singapore / Courtney R -- . Fu (National University of Singapore) -- Section III. Global design practices. Introduction / Yoko Takagi (Bunka Gakuen University, Japan). 10. Dress fashion posters in consumer fashion choices and preferences in Ghana / Osuanyi Quaicoo Essel (University of Education Winneba, Ghana) & Malika Kraamer (University of Leicester, UK) ; 11. State of fashion: searching for the new luxury. Imagination, sustainability, embodied practice, craft revival, new narratives / Jose Teunissen (University of the Arts London, UK) ; 12. Making the ordinary fashionable: new Sartorial languages from Russia and China / Hazel Clark (Parsons School of Design, USA) and Alla Eizenberg (Parsons School of Design, USA) ; 13. Body mapping: cross cultural influences in the studio / Jenny Hughes (University of the Creative Arts Rochester, UK).