Explores the extent of the influence that the Orient had, and continues to have, on fashion.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art during the first quarter of 1995. The authors (both curator

A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of

Orientalism is about much more than just information gathered about the East within its general postcolonial period. In this period, orientalism is a Western di

The debate on Orientalism began some fifty years ago in the wake of decolonization. While initially considered a turning point, Edward Said’s Orientalism (197