Muslim Fashion

Contemporary Style Cultures

Reina Lewis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2015
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-5914-2 (ISBN)

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Reina Lewis analyzes Muslim modest clothing as fashion and shows how young Muslim women (with a focus on Britain, North America, and Turkey) are part of an emergent transnational youth subculture who use fashion to negotiate religion, identity, ethnicity, and mainstream consumer culture.

In the shops of London's Oxford Street, girls wear patterned scarves over their hair as they cluster around makeup counters. Alongside them, hip twenty-somethings style their head-wraps in high black topknots to match their black boot-cut trousers. Participating in the world of popular mainstream fashion—often thought to be the domain of the West—these young Muslim women are part of an emergent cross-faith transnational youth subculture of modest fashion. In treating hijab and other forms of modest clothing as fashion, Reina Lewis counters the overuse of images of veiled women as "evidence" in the prevalent suggestion that Muslims and Islam are incompatible with Western modernity. Muslim Fashion contextualizes modest wardrobe styling within Islamic and global consumer cultures, interviewing key players including designers, bloggers, shoppers, store clerks, and shop owners. Focusing on Britain, North America, and Turkey, Lewis provides insights into the ways young Muslim women use multiple fashion systems to negotiate religion, identity, and ethnicity.

Reina Lewis is Professor of Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, and the author of Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem.

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. Veils and Sales 1

1. From Multiculture to Multifaith: Consumer Culture and the Organization of Rights and Resources 35

2. The Commercialization of Islamic Dress: Selling and Marketing Tessettür in Turkey and Beyond 69

3. Muslim Lifestyle Magazines: A New Mediascape 109

4. Taste and Distinction: The Politics of Style 163

5. Hijabi Shop Workers in Britain: Muslim Style Knowledge as Fashion Capital? 199

6. Modesty Online: Commerce and Commentary on the Net 237

7. Commodification and Community 287

Conclusion 317

Notes 323

References 331

Index 365

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.9.2015
Zusatzinfo	87 photographs, incl. 17 in co
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	726 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schönheit / Kosmetik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8223-5914-6 / 0822359146
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-5914-2 / 9780822359142
Zustand	Neuware