Tag Archives: consumption
Flashback: Superman fights Fashion Pirates (1943)
I spent all day yesterday researching the Design Piracy Prohibition Act, a bill that would extend copyright protection to fashion design and levy significant penalties against those found in violation. (The 2006 proposal never made it out of committee but … Continue reading
Filed under COUNTERFEIT GOODS
LINKAGE: Hidden Costs of Fashion Blogging
IFB recently republished a post titled, “Finance & the Fashion Blogger: Ignore-ance” that dovetails nicely with the amazing discussions about labor, new media, and capitalism that are happening in the comments sections of Threadbared. (See here and here. If you … Continue reading
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Textiles in a Time of War, and After
On one of the many episodes on Threadbanger, Corrine and Rob mentioned visiting the exhibition called Weavings of War: Fabrics of Memory. A collection of contemporary textiles by textile artists, mostly women, featuring images of war and strife, Weavings of … Continue reading
Filed under LINKAGE, THEORY TO THINK WITH
TEACHING: Video Killed the Lecture
Just a quick update to bookmark a couple videos here for possible inclusion in my fall course on the transnational politics of clothing and fashion. First up, a 2001 undergraduate student documentary (by Anmol Chaddha, Naomi Iwasaki, Sonya Zehra Mehta, … Continue reading
Filed under HIJAB POLITICS, IN THE CLASSROOM
