Аннотация:Abstract Chapter 3 investigates how female musicians commodify their personal style as clothing designers by using other women’s personal style as creative inspiration. This practice is described as citational feminism and positioned alongside the grimmer realities of global fashion manufacturing’s labor conditions, which often relies on the exploitation of environmental resources and garment workers. Rapper M.I.A.’s fraught relationship to the fashion industry is analyzed. In the mid-2000s, the Sri Lankan-British performer and producer helped revive b-girl aesthetics in her music videos and self-presentation. She later parlayed her image into spokesmodel contracts for luxury brands like Marc Jacobs and tried to launch her own clothing line, Okley Run, before partnering with established brands to help offset the financial costs of clothing manufacture while positioning herself as a transnational style icon, particularly through her motivic use of forgery and upcycling in her bootleg-themed 2013 Versus capsule collection, her 2016 H&M “Rewear It” campaign, and her 2017 athleisure line with Astrid Andersen.
