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Book - Exploration of Islamic Dress,
Modernity, Social Issues, Public Spaces
PARIS CHIC, TEHRAN THRILLS
By Alexandru Balasescu
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ISBN 978-973-87980-2-1
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In
this fascinating and unique book, Alexandru Balasescu explores questions of
Islamic dress, modernity and public space in Paris and Tehran. How are we to
understand the exclusion of the Islamic dress from public space in France if,
at the same time, trendy French women and wealthy Middle Eastern tourists shop for
designer-label hijab, apparently accepting its conversion into a
(depoliticited, deracinated) commodity? And how are we to understand the
creation of "designer label" Islamic dress, when fashionable women
recast the meanings and practices associated with veiling, understood by
Western observers to be the mark of their subordination to a religious regime,
into couture? This challenging book significantly complicates the question of
Islamic dress in the modern world, and, indeed, questions hallowed categories
of religion, secularism, and modernity itself / Bill Maurer, Professor
of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine. Author of Mutual Life,
Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason.
Table of Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: FASHION
AND THE ETHNOGRAPHIC SUBJECT
Body Practices and Subjectivation
Movement
Urban Methods, or How to take the Metro to the field
Objects of (for) Research
Trajectories and Mediations
CHAPTER 2: On the Timely Subject of Fashion
The Fabric of Fashion
License Power
Techniques of Fashion
Blaise, or a Brief Presentation of the Process of Production
The Fabric of Design
Time
Brand New Subjects
CHAPTER 3: Oriental Flavors. Designing (for) the Middle East in Paris
Reliable Clients
Orientalism and its discontents
(A)political representations
Dress: Practice and Representations
Brand Orientalism
Inside Out Dress
Visible Subjectivation
Latent Orientalism and Feminist Critiques: Inside the Modern Middle East
CHAPTER 4: Space, Time, Dress, and Aesthetic Authority. Fashion and Modernity
in the Urban Spaces of Tehran
Modern Dressing in Iran
Clothing Reforms in Iran between 1920 and 1940
Moral Dress and the Islamic Revolution
Urban Spaces in Tehran
Dressing the Muslim Women's Bodies
Spaces, Dress, Places
Fashion, Time, Consumption
CHAPTER 5: Gendered Space and Fashion Catwalks: Paris and Tehran
Lotous Fashion Show
Mozaique reflections, 10.14.2003
CHAPTER 6: Traditionally Modern: the Haute Couture in Tehran
Time for Fashion in Tehran
Mahla or Fashion as Business
Shadi or the Cosmopolitan Approach
The Privilege of Exoticism
CHAPTER 7: AFTER AUTHORS
What Is a Copy?
Signature, Mark, Territory
"Everybody Is a Copy"
Art for Designers, Copyrights for Business
Authors, Power, Territory
CHAPTER 8: PICTURED BODIES: PHOTOGRAPHING FOR FASHION IN TEHRAN
The Ideal Body of "Modern" Photography
CONCLUSION: modernity in Motion
Forms of Mobility, Forms of Modernity
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