Canadian Critical Luxury Studies

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Decentring Luxury

By Jessica Clark and Nigel Lezama

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Canadian Critical Luxury Studies offers a dynamic exploration of luxury within the Canadian context, tracing its evolution from the fur trade era to contemporary Indigenous fashion movements. It delves into historical and modern examples, including the T. Eaton Company's 1920s 'Made-in-Canada' campaign, Toronto Fashion Week, and the fashion tech scene in Montréal. The essays collectively propose a fresh definition of luxury grounded in community and connection, challenging traditional Western views tied to colonial and consumerist narratives.
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This collection will appeal to readers interested in arts and culture, fashion studies, Indigenous perspectives, and Canadian history, especially those seeking a thoughtful critique of luxury's role in society.

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A dynamic new contribution to the study of luxury in the Canadian context.

From the history of the fur trade to the latest Indigenous fashion movement, from the T. Eaton Company’s 1920s “Made-in-Canada” campaign to the on-again-off-again Toronto Fashion Week, from Vancouver public art commissions to Montréal’s future-forward fashion tech sector, the essays in this volume explain what makes and breaks Canadian luxury.

The book announces a new collective of thinkers who focus on Indigenous and Canadian instances of luxurious production, experiences, and sites to propose a new definition of luxury that includes a plurality of regional practices.

Challenging Western perceptions that bind luxury to a colonial past or a consumerist present, these original case studies redefine luxury for Canada, highlighting the notion that Canadian luxury is centred on community and connection.

Canadian Critical Luxury Studies by Jessica Clark and Nigel Lezama offers a profound exploration that shifts the paradigm about what luxury means in different cultural contexts, particularly within Canada.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781789385151

Publisher: Intellect

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 25 July 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Intellect Books

Illustration: 19 Halftones, black and white

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 252

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Jessica Clark Nigel Lezama Non-Fiction

About the Author

Jessica P. Clark is a historian of Britain and empire, with a focus on gender, consumption and labour. She is the author of The Business of Beauty: Gender and the Body in Modern London (Bloomsbury, 2020) and an associate professor of history at Brock University.

Nigel Lezama is an associate professor of French studies at Brock University and an editorial board member for Fashion Studies and the new In Pursuit of Luxury journal. Examining how marginalized and peripheral fashion and luxury practices transform dominant culture, he works at the intersection of fashion, luxury, literary and cultural studies.