Fashion and Appropriation

Green, Denise Nicole; Kaiser, Susan B.

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“…Luxury brands, in particular, have to take cultural appropriation seriously because symbolic values, as well as arts and culture, are seen and displayed as a part of a brand's DNA (Lojacono & Pan, 2021). CA in luxury has become a contemporary topic in both literature and pop culture, and mass media (Green & Kaiser, 2017). An exponentially increased sensitivity towards this issue is evident as luxury goods are more a means of self‐expression than a signifier of status (Geczy & Karaminas, 2018; Pozzo, 2020).…”

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The fine line between localization and cultural appropriation in personal luxury goods: An exploratory study

Lojacono

2022

Strategic Change

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Luxury companies have often been exposed to criticism stemming from the use of local cultural codes. This paper investigates the meaning and risks of Cultural Appropriation (CA) in Personal Luxury Goods (PLG). Findings from the case study analysis reveal that respect, giving credit, and research based on local collaborations can help companies continue to be inspired by other cultures without running the risk of appropriation.

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The fine line between localization and cultural appropriation in personal luxury goods: An exploratory study

Lojacono

2022

Strategic Change

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“…I was invited to contribute and write two reading lists, one for fashion design and another for art and design. At first, I was unsure of how to do this, and this led me to undertake a deeper critical examination of how power operates in fashion globally to create cultural hierarchies and divisions which allows the Western fashion system to maintain a West/Rest distinction to produce racism and sexism; such as, through designs that culturally appropriate different cultures 21 ; the exclusion of non-white bodies in the fashion media and catwalk shows 22 ; and, the global dominance of European and western Anglo-America led fashion design 23 .…”

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Towards a decolonial feminist fashion design reading list

Ahmed¹

2022

Art libr. j.

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Although reading lists are an important part of curricula and play an essential role in decolonizing education, the work to diversify them can often neglect intersectional approaches that consider both racialized and gendered dimensions of knowledge construction. The consequence can be an additive approach in which black authors and authors of colour are included to diversify reading lists, reproducing racist and sexist biases. This paper examines how reading lists are constructed in curricula and presents an alternative decolonial feminist approach to creating a reading list in fashion design. The value of decolonial feminism lies in addressing the gaps in thinking by using a racialized and gendered framework. The Decolonizing the Curriculum Toolkit project at Westminster University, UK is introduced to which the author contributed a Decolonising Fashion Design Reading List, as an example of counter-hegemonic curricula which aimed to reveal the unequal power dynamics that support colonial logics in fashion design education. Exposing hegemonic distinctions in fashion that represent Western fashion as modern and non-Western fashion as traditional can then allow marginalized and excluded fashion narratives to become centred. Such an approach can then provide a key tool towards building a more pluralised and de-hierarchised set of fashion design resources.

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“…It emerged in the mid-2010s and remains influential at present (Monroy, 2018). Although the concept of “cultural appropriation” was not entirely newly coined, the contemporary public imbues it with critical social significance and propels it to popularity (Green & Kaiser, 2017). Since 2016, academics are driven by the vigorous public debate on “cultural appropriation” to theorize the concept (Pham, 2017).…”

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“…My analysis will be relevant to interpreting a well-known incident of cultural appropriation in the US. The appropriation of ethnic fashion has drawn a large share of the public attention on cultural appropriation (Green & Kaiser, 2017). In 2018, the 18-year-old Keziah Daum, a high school senior-year student in Utah, wore a cheongsam to the prom and posted her prom-night pictures on Twitter.…”

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The Instrumental Consumption of Ethnic Culture: Assessing Two Economically Driven Ways of Consuming the Cheongsam in China

Chew

2022

SAGE Open

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Under the contemporary circumstances of symbolic consumption, multiculturalism, and accelerated globalization, ethnic cultures have become more available and more attractive to consumers. A consequence is that the instrumental consumption of ethnic culture becomes much more common. This study’s first objective is to clarify it by analyzing the instrumental consumption of the cheongsam, a Chinese traditional dress. This study’s second objective is to illustrate that the normative implications of instrumental consumption of ethnic culture are more complex and open-ended than currently understood. I substantiate this argument by contrasting two economically driven ways of consuming the cheongsam: non-wealthy women wearing cheongsams for their affordability and fashion businesses using the cheongsam style to generate profits. I show that the former case is relatively benign while the latter is not. They show that even when instrumental consumption is driven by purposes irrelevant to ethnicity, some instances of it can yield ethnicity-relevant outcomes. Among these ethnicity-relevant outcomes, some of them empower ethnic cultures. This study’s data include formal and informal interviews, participant observation in several Chinese cities, and a variety of documentary sources.

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Fashion and Appropriation

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Cited by 18 publications

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The fine line between localization and cultural appropriation in personal luxury goods: An exploratory study

The fine line between localization and cultural appropriation in personal luxury goods: An exploratory study

Towards a decolonial feminist fashion design reading list

The Instrumental Consumption of Ethnic Culture: Assessing Two Economically Driven Ways of Consuming the Cheongsam in China

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