The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion

by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu

Since the 1990s, young Asian Americans including Doo-Ri Chung, Derek Lam, Thakoon Panichgul, Alexander Wang, and Jason Wu have emerged as leading fashion designers. They have won prestigious awards, been chosen to head major clothing labels, and had their designs featured in Vogue , Harper's Bazaar , and other fashion magazines. At the same time that these designers were rising to prominence, the fashion world was embracing Asian chic. During the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822349132
• ISBN13: 9780822349136
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"