Paris, Capital of Fashion (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Steele, Valerie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Paris, Capital of Fashion accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at FIT, New York's only museum dedicated solely to the art of fashion. This lavishly-illustrated book is edited by MFIT's director and chief curator, Valerie Steele, also the author of the acclaimed Paris Fashion: A Cultural History. This new book opens with an important essay on how and why Paris became famous as the international "capital of fashion."

Steele traces how the mythic "aura" of Paris fashion was constructed over generations, as the splendour of the court at Versailles came to be echoed by the spectacle of the haute couture. Yet Paris has faced repeated challenges from other fashion capitals, especially London, Milan, and New York. Essays by Christopher Breward, David Gilbert, Grazia d'Annunzio, and Antonia Finnane place Paris within a broader global narrative, while Sophie Kurkdjian investigates the cultural value of the Parisian couture, and Agnès Rocomora explores the online imagery of the chic Parisienne.

As The New Yorker recently put it, Paris is "the most glamorous and competitive of the world's fashion capitals." No other city has been branded "Fashion" as Paris has. By opening the study of Paris fashion to new approaches, this book explains why Paris still retains its position as the world's undisputed fashion capital.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350102958
• Artikelnr.: 57473542

Autorenporträt

Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT in New York City, where she has curated more than 25 exhibitions in the past 20 years, including 'The Corset: Fashioning the Body', 'Gothic: Dark Glamour', 'A Queer History of Fashion', and 'Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color'. As author, curator, editor, and public intellectual, Valerie Steele has been instrumental in creating the modern field of fashion studies and in raising awareness of the cultural significance of fashion.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Valerie SteeleChapter 1: Paris, "Capital of Fashion"Valerie SteeleChapter 2: Paris, London, Shanghai: Touring the Fashion ImaginaryChristopher BrewardChapter 3: Paris, New York, London, Milan ... Paris and a world order of fashion capitalsDavid GilbertChapter 4: Paris and A Tale of Italian CitiesGrazia D'AnnunzioChapter 5: Between Beijing and Shanghai: fashion in the Party stateAntonia FinnaneChapter 6: The Cultural Value of Parisian CoutureSophie KurkdjianChapter 7: #parisienne: Social Media Stratification in Visions of Parisian WomenAgnès RocamoraNotesImage ListBibliographyNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIndex

Rezensionen

Insightful ... One of the fundamental strengths of this publication is its multifaceted approach to Paris ... A valuable resource for students and academics of fashion and social history. The Journal of Dress History