Black designers in American fashion /
"Using previously unexplored sources, Black Designers in American Fashion addresses the erased histories of black fashion designers and their integral role in the American fashion industry"--
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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London, UK ; New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Visual Arts,
2021.
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| Acesso em linha: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2906149 |
Sumário:
- Illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Elizabeth Way
- Section I. Anonymous histories. 1. The fabric of fast fashion: enslaved wearers and makers as designers in the American fashion system / Katie Knowles
- 2. Slavery’s warp, liberty’s weft: a look at the work of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century enslaved fashion makers and their legacies / Jonathan Michael Square
- 3. A matrilineal thread: nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Black New York dressmakers / Elizabeth Way
- Section II. In the atelier: modistes and independent designers. 4. Dressing up: the rise of Fannie Criss / Kristen E. Stewart
- 5. Ruby Bailey: making for oneself, a regional fashion designer case study / Joy Davis
- 6. Arthur George “Art” Smith: an artist about form, a man about substance / Kristen J. Owens
- Section III. Into the mainstream: Seventh Avenue and beyond.
- 7. Wesley Tann: the glamour and the guts / Nancy Deihl
- 8. Jay Jaxon: an unsung couturier / Darnell-Jamal Lisby
- 9. Dapper Dan: the original streetwear designer and influencer / Ariele Elia
- Section IV. The star designer: national and international impact. 10. Color story: Stephen Burrows’s impact on the world of fashion / Tanya Danielle Wilson Myers
- 11. Scott Barrie: designing 1970s New York / Elizabeth Way
- 12. Race WERK: WilliWear and Patrick Kelly Paris / Eric Darnell Pritchard
- Postscript / Elizabeth Way
- Index.