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This article uses the perspective of cultural anthropology to consider the construction of an early modern perception of time and its relation to the dress and personal consumption of a male subject. It focuses on a costume book from the Renaissance compiled by Matthäus Schwarz, a member of the bourgeoisie, who lived in Augsburg from 1496 to 1574. The book contains a collection of 137 drawings, portraying Schwarz's personal choice of dress. It is also an account of Schwarz's life, beginning with his parents, then covering his life–stages from birth to old age. The relationships between body and dress and between the male subject and the world run as a major thread through the book. This article shows how closely connected Schwarz's body is with the life of commodities (dress) and consumption. The life–story of this Renaissance man is expressed in terms of changing fashions, which act as his subjective measure of time.

"The focus of "Fusion Fashion" is on Orientalism as a sartorial practice, which has to be differentiated from the common knowledge of/on Orientalism by means of its organization, constitution and reception. The book offers historic as well as systematic perspectives. On the one hand, it compares orientalizing practices in fashion since the Tang period in China and European Renaissance. On the other hand, it highlights current tendencies of so called "orientalism", "self-orientalism", "occidentalism" in a globalized world. The book covers two time periods: Orientalized fashion practices from the 16th to the beginning of the 20th century, with an emphasis on European "Oriental" practices, and the period beginning in the 1990s up to the present day, with an emphasis on non-Western sartorial practices"--

Ein Buch über die Modernität der Mode: Während eine Modewissenschaft an deutschsprachigen Universitäten bis heute nicht etabliert wurde, haben sich gleichwohl verschiedene Disziplinen wie Germanistik, Soziologie, Kulturwissenschaft, Kunstgeschichte und Europäische Ethnologie immer wieder der Mode als Forschungsgegenstand zugewandt. Dieser Band initiiert eine Bestandsaufnahme des Phänomens Mode in diesen Wissenschaften seit dem 19. Jahrhundert und stellt somit einen wichtigen Schritt in der Aufarbeitung einer deutschsprachigen Modewissenschaft dar. Die Beiträge fragen u.a. nach der Konstruktion