Episode 14: The Limits of Japanese Designers’ Challenge
Paris Was Shocked, but It Did Not Change
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Episode 13: 'Feminine' Positioning
How Can Marginality Become a Weapon?
Episode 12: 'Japanese' Positioning
Strategically Incorporating Cultural Difference
Episode 11: Anti-Couture as a Position (Part Ⅱ)
Black Garments that Disrupted the Aesthetic Order of Paris
Episode 10: Anti-Couture as a Position (Part I)
Power Relations in the Field of Fashion
Episode 9: The Structure of the French Fashion World
From Bourdieu’s Theory of the Field
Episode 8: Is Paris Fashion Week Truly a Meritocracy?
Paris Fashion Week as a Site of Struggle
Episode 7: Can Cultural Identity Be Fixed?
Learning from Stuart Hall: A Non-Essentialist Perspective
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 examination of the impact of late 19th-century Japonisme on Western fashion.
Episode 3: What Does “Japan as Seen” Mean?
A Foucauldian Perspective on the Politics of the Gaze
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?
There was a time when people said, “Japanese clothing would not be accepted.”
Introduction
Another way of reading fashion. An introduction to the critical perspective of this series.
Upcoming Episodes
- Episode 12: 'Japanese' Positioning (Published)
- Episode 13: 'Feminine' Positioning (Published)