Since the 1990s, young Asian Americans including Doo-Ri Chung, Derek Lam, Thakoon Panichgul, Alexander Wang, and Jason Wu have emerged as leading fashion designers. They have won prestigious awards, been chosen to head major clothing labels, and had their designs featured in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and other fashion magazines. At the same time that these designers were rising to prominence, the fashion world was embracing Asian chic. During the 1990s, Asian shapes, fabrics, iconography, and colors filled couture runways and mass-market clothing racks. In The Beautiful Generation, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu explores the role of Asian American designers in New York's fashion industry, paying particular attention to how they relate to the garment workers who produce their goods and to Asianness as a fashionable commodity. She draws on conversations with design students, fashion curators, and fashion publicists; interviews with nearly thirty Asian American designers who have their own labels; and time spent with those designers in their shops and studios, on their factory visits, and at their fashion shows. The Beautiful Generation links the rise of Asian American designers to historical patterns of immigration, racial formation, and globalized labor, and to familial and family-like connections between designers and garment workers.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-13
9780822349136
eBay Product ID (ePID)
106487308
Product Key Features
Author
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
Publication Name
The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Social Sciences, History
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
241mm
Item Width
162mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
Topic
Crafts
Genre
Fashion
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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