Pret-a-Porter, Paris and Women : A Cultural Study of French Readymade Fashion, 1945-68 Paperback / softback
by Alexis (Independent Scholar, USA) Romano
Part of the Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections series
Paperback / softback
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In the first critical history of French ready-made fashion, Alexis Romano examines an array of cultural sources, including surviving garments, fashion magazines, film, photography and interviews, to weave together previously disparate historical narratives.
The resulting volume – Prêt-à -Porter: Paris and Women – situates the ready-made in wider cultural discourses of art, design, urbanism, technology and international policy. Through a close study of fashion magazines, including Vogue and Elle, Romano reveals how the French ready-made and the genre of fashion photography in France developed in tandem.
Analyses of representations of space, women and prêt-à -porter in such magazines – alongside other cultural ephemera such as contemporary film, documentary photography and family photographs – demonstrate that popular conceptions of fashion and modernity shifted in the period 1945-68. By connecting national and personal histories, Prêt-à -Porter: Paris and Women reveals the importance of the ready-made to broader narratives of postwar reconstruction, national identity, gender and international dialogue.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages, 16 colour and 38 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:16/06/2022
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- ISBN:9781350215931
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages, 16 colour and 38 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:16/06/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350215931
