{"product_id":"the-beautiful-generation-asian-americans-and-the-cultural-economy-of-fashion-paperback","title":"The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThuy Linh Nguyen Tu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the 1990s, young Asian Americans including Doo-Ri Chung, Derek Lam, Thakoon Panichgul, Alexander Wang, and Jason Wu have emerged as leading fashion designers. They have won prestigious awards, been chosen to head major clothing labels, and had their designs featured in \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e, and other fashion magazines. At the same time that these designers were rising to prominence, the fashion world was embracing Asian chic. During the 1990s, \"Asian\" shapes, fabrics, iconography, and colors filled couture runways and mass-market clothing racks. In \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Generation\u003c\/i\u003e, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu explores the role of Asian American designers in New York's fashion industry, paying particular attention to how they relate to the garment workers who produce their goods and to Asianness as a fashionable commodity. She draws on conversations with design students, fashion curators, and fashion publicists; interviews with nearly thirty Asian American designers who have their own labels; and time spent with those designers in their shops and studios, on their factory visits, and at their fashion shows. \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Generation\u003c\/i\u003e links the rise of Asian American designers to historical patterns of immigration, racial formation, and globalized labor, and to familial and family-like connections between designers and garment workers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Beautiful Generation\" is a pleasure to read and a model of how cultural studies ought to be done. Thuy Linh Tu's elegant, well-crafted account of the fashion industry demonstrates the impossibility of separating the aesthetic from the material, or the cultural from the economic. It shows how the changing roles of culture in the global economy can be luminously traced through a focused, interdisciplinary methodology.\"--Kandice Chuh, author of \"Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThuy Linh Nguyen Tu is Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies at New York University. She is a co-editor of \u003ci\u003eAlien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press, and \u003ci\u003eTechniColor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51792864346400,"sku":"9780822349136","price":45.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/41f5e5c3017775d9074118f32a916edd.webp?v=1780709625","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-beautiful-generation-asian-americans-and-the-cultural-economy-of-fashion-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}