Muslim Fashion

Muslim Fashion

by Reina Lewis
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 15/10/2015

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In the shops of London's Oxford Street, girls wear patterned scarves over their hair as they cluster around makeup counters. Alongside them, hip twenty-somethings style their head-wraps in high black topknots to match their black boot-cut trousers. Participating in the world of popular mainstream fashion—often thought to be the domain of the West—these young Muslim women are part of an emergent cross-faith transnational youth subculture of modest fashion. In treating hijab and other forms of modest clothing as fashion, Reina Lewis counters the overuse of images of veiled women as "evidence" in the prevalent suggestion that Muslims and Islam are incompatible with Western modernity. Muslim Fashion contextualizes modest wardrobe styling within Islamic and global consumer cultures, interviewing key players including designers, bloggers, shoppers, store clerks, and shop owners. Focusing on Britain, North America, and Turkey, Lewis provides insights into the ways young Muslim women use multiple fashion systems to negotiate religion, identity, and ethnicity.

ISBN:
9780822375340
9780822375340
Category:
Gender studies: women
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
15-10-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Reina Lewis

Reina Lewis is Professor of Cultural Studies at the London Collage of Fashion. She is the author of Muslim Fashion: Contemporary Style Cultures.

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