CONTENTS List of figures ix Notes on contributors xi Acknowledgements xv Introduction 1 EUGENIA PAULICELLI AND HAZEL CLARK 1 From potlatch to Wal-Mart: courtly and capitalist hierarchies through dress 13 JANE SCHNEIDER 2 Dressing the nation: Indian cinema costume and the making of a national fashion, 1947-1957 28 RACHEL TU 3 Made in America: Paris, New York, and postwar fashion photography 41 HELENA C. RIBEIRO 4 Framing the Self, staging identity: clothing and Italian style in the films of Michelangelo Antonioni (1950-1964) 53 EUGENIA PAULICELLI 5 The art of dressing: body, gender, and discourse on fashion in Soviet Russia in the 1950s and 1960s 73 OLGA GUROVA 6 Fashioning appropriate youth in 1990s Vietnam 92 ANN MARIE LESHKOWICH 7 Youth, gender, and secondhand clothing in Lusaka, Zambia: local and global styles 112 KAREN TRANBERG HANSEN 8 Fashion design and technologies in a global context 128 MICHIEL SCHEFFER 9 Fabricating Greekness: from fustanella to the glossy page 145 MICHAEL SKAFIDAS 10 Fashion Brazil: South American style, culture, and industry 164 VALERIA BRANDINI 11Fashioning China style in the twenty-first century 177 HAZEL CLARK 12 From factories to fashion: an intern's experience of New York as a global fashion capital 194 CHRISTINA H. MOON Index 211