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Contemporary South Asian youth cultures and the fashion landscape
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posted on 2017-06-01, 13:57 authored by Lopi Begum, Rohit DasguptaIn this article we reflect on the timely dialogue which took place to address how
economic growth and the expanding middle-class youth population in South Asia
(Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka)
influences sartorial identities. This working note is based on an ongoing research
project: ‘South Asian Youth Cultures and Fashion’ and the related symposium at the
London College of Fashion, which explores how South Asian sartorial identities have
been previously classified and how they are changing in the face of an increasingly
globalized world. The conversations which took place reiterated the very reason why
the symposium was organized. Whilst there has been some study of South Asian fashion and dressing cultures within history, Anthropology and its diaspora, little work has looked at the transnational implication of the changing cultural, economic and fashion education environments on dress cultures on youth.
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