Tracking luxury Indian fashion from its production in village craft workshops through upmarket design studies to fashion soirées, Kuldova investigates the Indian luxury fashion market’s
dependence on the production of thousands of artisans all over India, and reveals a complex system of hierarchies and exploitation. Her chapters are neo-feudal ornamentalism and elitist
fantasies; producing cosmopolitanism, hierarchy, and social cohesion; design genius and his ghost others; charitable non-love and philanthro-capitalism; insubordinations of the laughing
craftswomen; erotic capital and benevolence of the vampish goddesses; and fashion, whisky, and "muscular" neo-royals. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
