Imagining the Orient: Cultural Appropriation in the florence Broadhurst Collection

commercial property, portfolio analysis, property investment allocation International Journal of Design This paper is a case study of Australian wallpaper designer, Florence Broadhurst, and The Broadhurst Collection and examines the motifs and printing techniques applied in the design process. By drawing on primary data in the form of interviews, as well as interrogating selected work from scholars from the fields of cultural criticism, anthropology, postcolonialism and design theory, this paper will discursively interpret the ways in which Florence Broadhurst consumed and rearticulated dominant signs - from Western discourses of art to decorative design and Orientalism. By considering the diverse interplay between the complex processes of 'appropriation' and production, this paper also raises the important issues of cross-cultural experience, cultural awareness, and social responsibility in the ways that designers address the politics and ideologies that inform their design processes and practices

Fashioning the Hood': THe Tracksuit as a Cultural Icon

This exhibition was to commemorate the track suit as a cultural and political icon

Image: Fashionscapes - Notes Towards an Understanding of Media Technologies and their Impact on Contemporary Fashion Imagery

Examines the recent emergence of fashion Film and internet (Twitter, Blog) within the fashion industry and the impact that it has on the dissemination of fashion imager

Australian Gothic: Black Light Angels, Appearance and Subcultural Style

This chapter examines the work of Sydney-based comic artist Louise Graber, whose fashion illustrations and gothic comic series Black Light Angels has been influential among teen goths in Sydney, Australia

Uber Men: Fashionable Heroics and Masculine Style

Much has been written about comic book superheroes and their cinematic adaptations. They are cultural icons recognised in every corner of the world and have featured in the childhoods of most Americans and Australians since the 1930s. Superheroes have also helped to construct an ideological worldview from the shifting interactions of politics, history and culture, as well as define a sense of identity and subjectivity. Yet, for such instantly recognisable icons, little has been written in terms of superhero dress and the collective imagination that sartorial practices produce in framing cultural meanings. Rather than situating male superhero attire in the field of costume design functionality, this paper sets out to reposition the discourse of superhero clothing as a vehicle for understanding constructions of masculinity, identity and nation. By providing a set of cinematic case studies, this paper also comments on the impact of nanotechnology in the construction of superhero attire in producing technoaugmented ûber bodies designed to protect the nation s future

Migrations of Identity and Home: Mapping Western Sydney

Examines home and identity for your artists and designers living in Western Sydne