Delft Blue to Denim Blue

Anneke Smelik is Katrien van Munster Professor of Visual Culture at the Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands. She is project leader of the research programme 'Crafting Wearables: Fashionable Technology'. She is author and editor of many publications on visual culture, including Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture, The Scientific Imaginary in Visual Culture, And the Mirror Cracked: Feminist Cinema and Film Theory, and, co-edited with Agnes Rocamora, Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists (I.B.Tauris, 2016).

• Anneke SmelikIntroduction: The Paradoxes of Dutch Fashion [box: G-star]Part 1: Dutch Fashion Culture2.José TeunissenClogs on High Heels: Dutch Cultural Heritage and Fashion [box: Max Heijmans]3.Michiel SchefferContours of the Dutch Fashion Industry[box: Hollandia-Kattenburg]4.Maaike FeitsmaDon’t Dress to Impress: Fashion Discourse in Dutch Journals[box: Frans Molenaar]5.Anneke Smelik, Daniëlle Bruggeman and Maaike FeitsmaVivid Colours: From the Local to the Global and Back Again:Oilily, Mac&Maggie and ¯CoraKemperman[box: Jan Taminiau]6.Maaike FeitsmaDenim Goes Dutch: A Myth-in-the-Making[box: Francisco van Benthum]Part 2: Dutch Firms and Designers7.Anja KöppchenVan Gils: Between Designing a Lifestyle and Making Suits [box: C&A]8.Anja KöppchenMexx: A Dutch Brand with Global Reach [box: Claudia Sträter]9.Anneke Smelik, Anja Köppchen and Constantin Von Maltzahn From Mac&Maggie to ¯CoraKemperman: Successful Co-Creation in Production and Consumption[box: People of the Labyrinths]10.Constantin Von MaltzahnVanilia: High-Street the Dutch Way[box: Marlies Dekkers]11.Constantin Von Maltzahn Spijkers en Spijkers: A Cut Above[box: Alexander van Slobbe]Part 3: Novel Perspectives 12.Daniëlle BruggemanDutch Fashion Photography: Liquid Bodies and Fluid Faces[box: Studio JUX]13.Daniëlle BruggemanFashion as a New Materialist Aesthetics: The Case of Viktor&Rolf[box: Bas Kosters]14.Anneke SmelikCybercouture: The Fashionable Technology of Pauline Van Dongen, Iris Van Herpen and Bart Hess[box: Anouk Wipprecht]BibliographyList of IllustrationsOn the ContributorsIndex

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