Episode 8: Is Paris Fashion Week Truly a Meritocracy?
Paris Fashion Week as a Site of Struggle
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Episode 7: Can Cultural Identity Be Fixed?
Non-essentialist perspective of cultural identity
Episode 6: Discomfort with the Label “Japanese Designer"
Resistance to National Labels and the Assertion of Individual Creativity
Episode 5: Constructing “Japaneseness” in Fashion Media
How Western media in the 1980s framed Japanese designers as exotic others.
Episode 4: The Representation of Kimono by Western Designers
A critical examination of how kimono motifs were appropriated and reinterpreted in Western fashion.
Episode 3: Foucault and the Imperial Gaze
Visual politics and the reception of “Japan as spectacle” within the world of high fashion.
Episode 2: Japonisme and the Allure of Japan
Exploring how fashion was influenced by Japonisme from the late nineteenth century onward.
Episode 1: Who Were the Japanese Designers Who Challenged Paris?
Examining strategic challenges and dynamics of acceptance through case studies and cultural theory.
Introduction
Another way of reading fashion. An introduction to the critical perspective of this series.
Upcoming Episodes
- Episode 8: Is Paris Fashion Week Truly a Meritocracy? (Published)
- Episode 7: Cultural Identity: Can It Be Fixed? (Published)