Yangon Fashion 1979. Fashion = Resistance

Lukas Birk

Publisher
Fraglich Publishing
Year
2025
Specifications
Stab binding, hand made, gold embossed
Paper wrapping
30 x 10.5 cm
152 pages on transparent paper
Introduction in English and Burmese
Printed and bound in the workshop in Yangon
Edition of 300
A special edition of 20 comes with a framed image

What were the fashion aspirations of Yangon's youth during the military regime of the 1970s? The book gives a rare view of the pictures that brought a spark of free expression to the fashionable young people of the city in the late seventies, made in the studios around the university. They show that fashion always comes through, whatever the barriers, and that whatever the conditions people live in, they want to look beautiful and to present themselves as such.

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