Wella-Stiftungsprofessur für Mode und Ästhetik an der Technischen Universität Darmstadt (Web)
Time: January 23-24, 2013
Venue: Wella-Museum, Darmstadt, Berliner Allee 65, 64295 Darmstadt
The globalization of fashion is often understood as a standardizing process that levels out all national and cultural differences – as if all current fashion movements worldwide are heading in the same direction. Upon closer inspection however it becomes clear that the purported global trends are subject to numerous twists and turns: the seemingly identical signs and objects of fashion and hairstyles in fact dissolve into a host of distinct phenomena conditioned by their respective cultural historical context. Deutsche Version und weiterlesen (Web)