Asian inclusion in fashion and the question of forced exoticsm: Stephen Dimal blog 3

In the fashion industry, an industry that is primarily based on finding novelty and new trends, it is interesting to think about how it has been a long process for Asian Americans to get involved within fashion, whether that be as the designer or as the model. In chapter 7 of Re-orienting Fashion titled Fashion-Nation by Lise Skov, she discusses how "in the 1980's when high fashion became