Volume II surveys the history of fashion from the nineteenth-century to the present day. Covering the period beginning with mass industry and ending with calls for sustainability, this volume challenges the meaning of modernity and modernism from a global perspective and reflects on important scholarship that has changed our understanding of the relationship between fashion and colonialism. Empires shifted and new powers rose, with fashion marking and contending with this change. The volume concludes with a critical view of fashion and globalisation, and explores the deep connections between the fashion industry, the global economy, and the politics of production and wearing in the contemporary world.

Part IV. Fashion, Modernism and Modernity: 21. Fashionable masculinities in England and beyond: renunciation and dandyism, 1800¿1939, Christopher Breward; 22. Fashion in capitalism: another modernity, 1800 to the present, Ulrich Lehmann; 23. Fashion and youth in western societies: street style and race, c. 1830¿1940, Vivienne Richmond; 24. Fashion and time in China's twentieth century, Antonia Finnane; 25. The totalitarian state and fashion in the twentieth century, Djurdja Bartlett; 26. Hollywood and beyond: fashion and the fiction film, Stella Bruzzi; 27. Fashion and non-fashion cultures, Sophie Woodward; 28. Fashion and hypermodernity, Marco Pecorari; Part V. Fashion, Colonialism and Post-colonialism: 29. Chinese coolie hats: global dialogues on a sign of servitude, c. 1840¿1940, Miki Sugiura; 30. Crumbling empires and emerging nations: fashion in Europe, c. 1860¿1914, Jonathan C. Kaplan; 31. Gender, nation, fashion and modernities in the Asia-Pacific, 1900 to the present, Mina Roces; 32. The global politics of wearing, buying, and selling European-style dress, c. 1900¿1930, Hissako Anjo, Emi Goto and Miki Sugiura; 33. Fashioning diasporas: Jewish and African experiences, c. 1800¿1950, Susan B. Kaiser and Nina L. Cole; 34. Colonial fashion histories, Karen Tranberg Hansen; Part VI. Fashion Systems and Globalisation: 35. Manufacturing fashion in the postwar period, Véronique Pouillard; 36. Producing and predicting fashion in twentieth-century America and Europe, Regina Lee Blaszczyk; 37. The origins and development of haute couture, 1858 to now, Claire Wilcox; 38. Couture, Prêt-à-porter and fast fashion since 1945, Simona Segre Reinach; 39. Casualwear and its birth in Japan, Toby Slade; 40. Fashion and globalization: the politics of hijab, Liz Bucar; 41. Streetscape, shop window, museum vitrine: displaying fashion, c. 1800¿2000, Julia Petrov; 42. Fashion and global sustainability, Lucy Norris.