Canadian Critical Luxury Studies

Decentring Luxury

Jessica Clark (Brock University, Canada), Nigel Lezama (Brock University, Canada)

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Intellect Books
16 August 2022

Art & Architecture; Fashion design & theory; Cultural studies; Media studies

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 centered on community and connection.

By: Jessica Clark (Brock University Canada), Nigel Lezama (Brock University, Canada)
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781789385151
ISBN 10: 1789385156
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 16 August 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction – Nigel Lezama PART 1: RESURGENCE AND REVISION 1. Luxury and Indigenous Resurgence – Riley Kucheran with Jessica P. Clark and Nigel Lezama 2. Putting Canada on the Map: A Brief History of Nation and Luxury – Jessica P. Clark 3. From Unvalued to Surplus Value: ‘Made-in-Canada’ Luxury at Eaton’s in the 1920s – Nigel Lezama PART 2: SPACE AND PLACE 4. Runway off the Mink Mile: Toronto Fashion Week and the Glamour and Luxury of Yorkville – Kathryn Franklin and Rebecca Halliday 5. Vancouver’s Monuments to Capital: Public Art, Spatial Capital and Luxury – Julia Polyck-O’Neill PART 3: FUTURE OF CANADIAN LUXURY 6. Beyond the Catwalk: What Happens When Luxury Meets Digital? – Marie O’Mahony 7. Contemporary Case Studies of Performative Wearables – Valérie Lamontagne Epilogue – Jessica P. Clark and Nigel Lezama References Contributors Index

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.