Aronowsky Cronberg, Anja (2020) 'There will never be a Chinese Fashion' – Staking a claim for Shanghai as a Fashion City. In: Styling Shanghai. Bloomsbury, Great Britain, pp. 287-308. ISBN 978-1-3500-5114-0
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Type of Research: | Book Section |
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Creators: | Aronowsky Cronberg, Anja |
Description: | I first thought of ‘Chinese fashion’ as a concept a few years ago when I interviewed a portentous gentleman who at the time held a very important position in the French fashion industry. He spoke disparagingly of Chinese designers coming to Paris to showcase their work during fashion week: ‘We’ve had a number of established Chinese designers showing in Paris by now, but after a while we realised that they had no talent and that no press was interested.’ Being many decades younger, and perhaps because of it subject to a different notion of the importance of both diversity and political correctness, I was quietly scandalized. But at the same time, the man’s sneering off-the-cuff remark made me reflect on my own attitude towards Chinese fashion. Was the fact that I hadn’t even considered it not a sign of the same prejudice? |
Official Website: | https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/styling-shanghai-9781350051140/ |
Publisher/Broadcaster/Company: | Bloomsbury |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > London College of Fashion |
Date: | 23 January 2020 |
Funders: | Donghua University/Shanghai Fashion Week Organization |
Date Deposited: | 27 Jan 2021 15:22 |
Last Modified: | 27 Jan 2021 15:22 |
Item ID: | 16383 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/16383 |
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