Parminder Bhachu: 1 book
Dangerous Designs
Asian Women Fashion the Diaspora Economies
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
In late-1990s Britain, the salwaar-kameez or 'Punjabi suit' emerged as a high-fashion garment. Popular both on the catwalk and on the street, it made front-page news when worn by Diana, Princess of Wales and by Cherie Booth, the wife of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
In her ethnography of the local...
