'Styling Shanghai' is dedicated to exploring the city's fashion cultures, examining its growing status as one of the world's foremost fashion cities. From its origins as an international treaty port in the nineteenth century, Shanghai has emerged as a global leader in the production, mediation and consumption of fashion. This book reveals how the material and imaginative context of this thriving urban center has produced vivid interpretations of fashion as object, image, and idea. Bringing together contributions by a range of leading international fashion historians and theorists, and drawing on extensive original research, contributors offer an interdisciplinary analysis of the mega-city's shifting position as a fashion capital.
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