The Fabric of Cultures

<P>Fashion is both public and private, material and symbolic, always caught within the lived experience and providing an incredible tool to study culture and history. </P> <P><EM>The Fabric of Cultures</EM> examines the impact of fashion as a manufacturing industry and as a culture industry that shapes the identities of nations and cities in a cross-cultural perspective, within a global framework.  The collected essays investigate local and global economies, cultures and identities and the book offers for the first time, a wide spectrum of case studies which focus on a diversity of geographical spaces and places, from global capitals of fashion such as New York, to countries less known or identifiable for fashion such as contemporary Greece and soviet Russia. </P> <P>Highly illustrated and including essays from all over the world, <EM>The Fabric of Cultures</EM> provides a comprehensive survey of the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on fashion, identity and globalisation. </P>