Building a new "world fashion": Islamic dress in the twenty-first century

Fashion Theory - Journal of Dress Body and Culture

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 403-422

  Akou, Heather Marie ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fashion system; Globalization; Internet; Islam; Macroculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249144063     PISSN: 1362704X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2752/175174107X250226     Document Type: Review

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