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Fashioning Brazil: Globalization and the Representation of Brazilian Dress in National Geographic since 1988

Photographs since National Geographic’s centenary edition in September 1988 encapsulate an “aesthetics of garbage,” and have traced the beginnings of a different view of global encounters between the United States and Brazil, driven by the forces of globalization. These images have resisted the processes of objectification, appropriation and stereotyping frequently associated with the magazine’s distinctive, rectangular yellow border. This is because they have provided evidence of a fluid and various population, which has selected and experimented with preferred elements of American and European dress, and used it to fashion their own, distinctly Brazilian, identities.

AutoraElizabeth Kutesko
Año2016
TipoArtículo Académico
PaísBrasil
EditorialFashion Theory Journal
DescargaURL
DOI10.1080/1362704X.2016.1133547
APAKutesko, E. (2016). Fashioning Brazil: Globalization and the Representation of Brazilian Dress in National Geographic since 1988. Fashion Theory, 20(2), 181-207.