Fashion in History: A Global Look

Tutor: Giorgio Riello

Week 19, Tuesday 9 March 2010

Europe and the Globalization of Fashion

1.The Global Fashion Business

- Global Fashion Businesses

- ‘Glocal’ fashion Businesses

http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?scope=all&tab=av&recipe=all&q=clothing+exploitation

UK shops in 'sweat shop' claim

Counterfeits and counterfeiting

From: Patrick Aspers and Lise Skov, ‘Encounters in the Global Fashion Business: Afterword’, Current Sociology, 54 (2006), pp. 802-813.

2. Global Consumers

http://shopping.guardian.co.uk/clothes/story/0,,1854832,00.html

‘Suits me’, The Guardian, Monday 21 August 2006