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Canadian Critical Luxury Studies : Decentring Luxury.
The first study of Canada's historical, economic and cultural relationship to luxury. From the fur trade to Indigenous resurgence, Eaton's Made-in-Canada campaign to Toronto Fashion Week, Vancouver public artworks to Montréal's fashiontech sector, this collection explains what makes...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Intellect Books Ltd,
2022.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Canadian Critical Luxury Studies: Decentring Luxury
- Copyright Page
- Table of contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Critical luxury studies: An overview
- Aporetic luxury
- Luxury as community capital
- Canadian critical luxury studies
- Notes
- Part 1 Resurgence and Revision
- 1 Luxury and Indigenous Resurgence
- Front matter
- Situating ourselves
- What is Indigenous luxury?
- Luxury and Indigenous resurgence
- Indigenous luxury, critical luxury studies and capitalism
- Indigenous methodologies
- The future of Indigenous luxury
- 2 Putting Canada on the Map: A Brief History of Nation and Luxury
- The early modern fur trade
- Nineteenth-century wilderness tourism
- Twentieth-century garment production
- Conclusions
- Notes
- 3 From Unvalued to Surplus Value: 'Made-in-Canada' Luxury at Eaton's in the 1920s
- Creating 'Canadian-made' surplus value
- What is the value of Canadian luxury?
- What is democratized luxury?
- Refinement and the civic luxury
- Cataloguing the luxury of modernity
- Made-in-Canada cultural capital
- Building Canadian luxury
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Part 2 Space and Place
- 4 Runway off the Mink Mile: Toronto Fashion Week and the Glamour and Luxury of Yorkville
- Laying down the runway: Toronto Fashion Week's beginnings
- Tracing the geographies of luxury and glamour in 1960s Yorkville
- Yorkville's performance of glamour and luxury
- Toronto Fashion Week in Yorkville
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 5 Vancouver's Monuments to Capital: Public Art, Spatial Capital and Luxury
- Public art, place-making and Vancouver
- Celebratory and critical: Public monuments and place in Vancouver
- Cultural capital, 'spatial luxury' and public art
- Vancouver and the 2010 Olympic Games
- Merchandise and the commodification of place
- Notes
- Part 3 Future of Canadian Lixury
- 6 Beyond the Catwalk: What Happens When Luxury Meets Digital?
- When digital meets with tradition
- Emerging forms of digital luxe
- The digital luxe experience
- Notes
- 7 Contemporary Case Studies of Performative Wearables
- The Wearable Performs
- Anouk Wipprecht: 'Spider Dress' (2014)
- Context
- Background
- Laboratory culture
- Technology
- Fashion-tech
- Collaboration
- Bodies/interaction
- Diffus Studio: 'Climate Dress' (2009)
- Context
- Background
- Laboratory culture
- Technology
- Fashion
- Body/interaction
- 3lectromode: Strokes&Dots (2013)
- Context
- Background
- Laboratory culture
- Technology
- Fashion
- Body/interaction
- XS Labs: Captain Electric and Battery Boy (2010)
- Context
- Background
- Laboratory culture
- Technology
- Body/interaction
- Conclusion: Wearables as performative
- Notes
- Epilogue
- Notes
- References
- Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover