This course examines linkages between representation, labor, and capital through fashion theory, clothing discourses and other practices of textile production under globalization. Drawing from scholarship and material in visual art, rhetoric,popular culture, and from interdisciplinary methodologies in postcolonial, feminist, and transnational cultural studies, this course seeks to map clothing and fashion as cultural, economic and political production. We will examine the stakes in the transnational and transcultural patterns of representation and labor, in community and national formations of identity, and the gendered and racialized identities of labor and style in the garment trade. Particular attention will be paid to fashion as a form of argument and advocacy.