The Power of Style: How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim Cultures

Christian Allaire explores fashion and beauty as forms of self-expression, representation, and cultural reclamation. Beginning with the ribbon shirt made for him by his mother and aunts, the book includes Indigenous designers and a range of topics: cosplay, modest dress and hijabs, natural and braided hair, Native hair, henna, men’s heeled shoes, and makeup for Black skin. Photographs, illustrations, definitions, quotations, and short explanatory sections accompany the profiles and topics throughout the book.