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Prêt-à-Porter, Paris and women : a cultural study of French readymade fashion, 1945-68 / Alexis Romano.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Romano, Alexis, author.
- Series:
- Fashion: visual & material interconnections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ready-to-wear clothing--France--History--20th century.
- Ready-to-wear clothing.
- Ready-to-wear clothing industry--France--History--20th century.
- Ready-to-wear clothing industry.
- Clothing and dress--France--20th century.
- Clothing and dress.
- Fashion photography--France--History--20th century.
- Fashion photography.
- Fashion--Social aspects--France--History--20th century.
- Fashion.
- Women--France--Social conditions--20th century.
- Women.
- Fashion--Social aspects.
- Social conditions.
- Women--Social conditions.
- France--Social conditions--1945-1995.
- France.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 243 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022.
- Summary:
- "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 - Pr̊t-̉-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 pr̊t-̉-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, Pr̊t-̉-Porter: Paris and Women reveals the importance of the ready-made to broader narratives of postwar reconstruction, national identity, gender and international dialogue"--Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781350215931
- 1350215937
- 9781350126190
- 1350126195
- OCLC:
- 1244255426
- Publisher Number:
- 99991363670
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