Mark Joseph O'Connell

Canadian Fashion Economies

A Select History of Fashion Culture, Commerce, and Colonization

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A rich and vital re-examination of Canadian cultural and commercial history, told through key fashion objects from First Nations, colonial settlers, and contemporary Canadian culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9781350357365
• ISBN-10: 1350357367
• Artikelnr.: 70452802

Autorenporträt

Mark Joseph O'Connell PhD is Professor of Fashion Studies at Seneca College, Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Lilac Time at the Rodeo (2021). His essays have been published in Fashion Theory; Textile the Journal of Cloth and Culture; Fashion, Style & Popular Culture and Fashion Studies. He has lectured on fashion, material culture and craft-based social justice movements in the U.S., Mexico and Canada (in English and Spanish). Prior to teaching, Mark worked as a designer both in-house at M.A.C Cosmetics and for his own clothing line, Modular Menswear.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction
1. Canadian Couture? Tsimshian & Tlingit Weaving
2. The Beaver Hat: Driver of Colonial Expansion
3. The HBC Blanket Coat: New Material for New Worlds
4. Fugitive Pieces: Quilted Memories and Ribbon Skirts
5. New Industry for a New World: Canadian Colonial Fashion Ephemera
Conclusion: Modern Chilkats
Bibliography
Notes
Glossary
Index