The Korean-American Experience: Fashion and Identity

Details: Thursday, March 01 , 2012 | 6:30 PM

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Event Link: <p style="text-align: justify;">Thuy Linh Tu is the author of The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion, co-editor of Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America (Duke University Press, 2007), and Technicolor: Race and Technology in Everyday Life (NYU Press, 2001). Her writings also appear in the journals American Quarterly (2010) and Wasifiri (2005), the anthology AsianAmerica.Net (Routledge, 2003), as well as in numerous artist and exhibition catalogs.</p>
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The Korea Society inaugurates its series on the impact of the Korean diaspora in the United States with a discussion of Korean-American leadership in fashion and design. New York City’s East Village has seen an emergence of boutiques and cutting-edge lines led by Korean Americans. Thuy Lin Tu, New York University professor and author of The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion, discusses that emergence and links to the growing global appeal of Korean design.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

6:30 PM

The Korean-American Experience: Fashion and Identity