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Journal of Design History 2000 13(2):137-150; doi:10.1093/jdh/13.2.137
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Grassroots Style

Re-evaluating Australian Fashion and Aboriginal Art in the 1970s and 1980s

Margaret Maynard


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Facing growing globalization of the marketplace, a number of Australian fashion designers in the 1970s and 1980s abandoned a long-standing reliance on Europe for inspiration to examone their domestic and indigenous 'grassroots' They believed that by using indigenious sources, they could find an alternative to current Western concepts of fashionable style This paper is an attempt to rethink assumptions that these fashions were inspirationally self-contained and their sources uni-directional It uses the notion of cross-cultural 'threading' as a way of thinking about the spread of design ideas and engagements that took place across both European and indigenous cultures, and especially between orthodox fashion and indigeous art and design especially

Key Words: aboriginal arts • Australia • cultural interaction • design • fashion • nationalism


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