Decentering Fashion on the Silk Roads: Craft and Responsible Fashion Dynamics in Central Asia

Decentering Fashion on the Silk Roads focuses on the dynamism of fashion, textile craft, heritage, and sustainability in Central Asia and beyond.The compelling series of accounts provides a comprehensive set of insights and impressions collected from both fashion academics, designers and practitioners from around the globe who journeyed through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and from those who live and work in this region.It showcases ways in which local textile craft practices can inform the modern fashion industry into becoming more sustainable. The book opens by exploring the importance of the old ‘Silk Roads’ crossing through the heart of the world in Central Asia, serving not only as trade routes but also allowing knowledge, art, and practices to be transmitted between the Orient and the Occident - enabling ideas to flourish and cultural dispositions to develop from Antiquity until Modernity.The unique set of chapters that follow examine and highlight the growing opportunities and less