Berliner Chic: A Locational History of Berlin Fashion. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Berliner Chic: A Locational History of Berlin Fashion

Since becoming the capital of reunited Germany, Berlin has had a dose of global money and international style added to its already impressive cultural veneer. Once home to emperors and dictators, peddlers and spies, it is now a fashion showplace that attracts the young and hip. Moving beyond descriptions of Berlin's fashion industry and its ready-to-wear clothing, Berliner Chic charts the turbulent stories of entrepreneurially-savvy manufacturers and cultural workers striving to establish their city as a fashion capital, and being repeatedly interrupted by politics, ideology, and war. There are many stories to tell about Berlin's fashion industry and Berliner Chic tells them all with considerable expertise.

 Susan Ingram is associate professor of humanities at York University.

Dr Katrina Sark is the founder of the Canadian Fashion Scholars Network, the co-founder of the Urban Chic book series published by Intellect and the co-author of Berliner Chic: A Locational History of Berlin Fashion (2011), Montréal Chic: A Locational History of Montreal Fashion (2016) and Copenhagen Chic: A Locational History of Copenhagen Fashion (2023) all published by Intellect. Her other publications include Branding Berlin (Routledge, 2023), Social Justice Pedagogies (University of Toronto Press, 2023), a Special Issue on ‘Ethical Fashion and Empowerment’ in Clothing Cultures (2021), as well as the Special Issue on ‘Creativity, Craft, Gender and Fashion’ also in Clothing Cultures (2024). For over fifteen years, she has taught at different universities across Canada, Denmark and Germany, developing programmes and many interdisciplinary courses in fashion studies, history, theory, cultural studies, media studies, gender studies, design studies and creativity studies. She is the creator of the Chic podcast and has launched The Critical Pulse, an online magazine, to create a platform for young critical voices and established experts to help reform fashion media, industry, education, as well as fashion practices and consumption.

Contact: University of Southern Denmark, Syddansk Universitet Kolding, Universitetsparken 1, 6000 Kolding, Denmark.