The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 2

Christopher Breward is Director of National Museums Scotland. He has published widely on the history of fashion and masculinity, clothing and city life and fashion's relationship with modernity. Notable publications include The Suit: Form, Function and Style (2016), and co-edited volumes London Fashion: from Street to Catwalk (2004) and Fashion's World Cities (2006). Beverly Lemire is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair at the University of Alberta. She publishes widely on consumer practice, material culture, gender and trade. Notable publications include Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures, c. 1500-1820 (2018) and the co-edited volume Object Lives & Global Histories in Northern North America. Material Culture in Motion, c. 1780-1980 (2021). Giorgio Riello is Chair of Early Modern Global History, European University Institute, Florence and Professor of Global History & Culture, University of Warwick. He publishes extensively on the history of fashion, textiles and trade between Europe and Asia. Among his books are: Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World (2013); Luxury: A Rich History (with P. McNeil) (2016); and Back in Fashion: Western Fashion from the Middle Ages to the Present (2020).

• Part IV. Fashion, Modernism and Modernity: 21. Fashionable masculinities in England and beyond: renunciation and dandyism, 1800–1939, Christopher Breward; 22. Fashion in capitalism: another modernity, 1800 to the present, Ulrich Lehmann; 23. Fashion and youth in western societies: street style and race, c. 1830–1940, Vivienne Richmond; 24. Fashion and time in China's twentieth century, Antonia Finnane; 25. The totalitarian state and fashion in the twentieth century, Djurdja Bartlett; 26. Hollywood and beyond: fashion and the fiction film, Stella Bruzzi; 27. Fashion and non-fashion cultures, Sophie Woodward; 28. Fashion and hypermodernity, Marco Pecorari; Part V. Fashion, Colonialism and Post-colonialism: 29. Chinese coolie hats: global dialogues on a sign of servitude, c. 1840–1940, Miki Sugiura; 30. Crumbling empires and emerging nations: fashion in Europe, c. 1860–1914, Jonathan C. Kaplan; 31. Gender, nation, fashion and modernities in the Asia-Pacific, 1900 to the present, Mina Roces; 32. The global politics of wearing, buying, and selling European-style dress, c. 1900–1930, Hissako Anjo, Emi Goto and Miki Sugiura; 33. Fashioning diasporas: Jewish and African experiences, c. 1800–1950, Susan B. Kaiser and Nina L. Cole; 34. Colonial fashion histories, Karen Tranberg Hansen; Part VI. Fashion Systems and Globalisation: 35. Manufacturing fashion in the postwar period, Véronique Pouillard; 36. Producing and predicting fashion in twentieth-century America and Europe, Regina Lee Blaszczyk; 37. The origins and development of haute couture, 1858 to now, Claire Wilcox; 38. Couture, Prêt-à-porter and fast fashion since 1945, Simona Segre Reinach; 39. Casualwear and its birth in Japan, Toby Slade; 40. Fashion and globalization: the politics of hijab, Liz Bucar; 41. Streetscape, shop window, museum vitrine: displaying fashion, c. 1800–2000, Julia Petrov; 42. Fashion and global sustainability, Lucy Norris.

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