Pret-a-Porter, Paris and Women : A Cultural Study of French Readymade Fashion, 1945-68 EPUB
by Alexis Romano
Part of the Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections series
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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 Pr t- -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 pr t- -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, Pr t- -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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- Pages:264 pages, 16 colour and 38 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:19/05/2022
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:264 pages, 16 colour and 38 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:19/05/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350126213