Fashioning Diasporas

doi:10.1017/9781108862349.015

33 - Fashioning Diasporas

Jewish and African Experiences, c. 1800–1950

from Part V - Fashion, Colonialism, and Post-Colonialism

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2023

Susan B. Kaiser and

Nina L. Cole

Edited by

Christopher Breward ,

Beverly Lemire and

Giorgio Riello

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Christopher Breward: Affiliation:
National Museums Scotland
Beverly Lemire: Affiliation:
University of Alberta
Giorgio Riello: Affiliation:
European University Institute, Florence

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The whole idea of ‘modern’ fashion cannot be understood without the interruptions, interventions, and innovations of diasporas. In this chapter, we focus on case studies of Jewish and African diasporas to illustrate the importance of bridging concepts of fashion and diaspora. Together, these concepts point to the interdependencies between changes in time and place. On the surface, fashion is more about changes over time, and diaspora is more about changes in place. Yet joint consideration reveals how migration, whether forced or voluntary, has fostered transformations in modern, global fashion history, based upon not only class and labour dynamics, but also cultural and aesthetic hybridization.

Type: Chapter
Information: The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
From the Nineteenth Century to the Present
, pp. 1155 - 1189

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108862349.015 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2023

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