Fashion's world cities / edited by Christopher Breward and David Gilbert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Breward, Christopher, 1965-

Gilbert, David

Series:

Cultures of consumption series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing trade.

Fashion.

Fashion design.

Metropolitan areas.

City and town life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 285 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006.

Summary:

"New York, Paris, London, Milan, Tokyo. This familiar list of cities conjures up the image of high fashion. This book examines the powerful relationship between metropolitan modernity and fashion culture. The authors look at the significance of certain key sites in fashion's world order and at transformations in the connections between key cities. The status of fashion capital has now become a goal for urban boosters and planners, part of the wider promotion of the "cultural economy" of major cities. In a rapidly changing global fashion system new centres like Shanghai are making claims to join the ranks of Fashion's World Cities. In chapters ranging from Los Angeles to Moscow and Dakar to Mumbai, Fashion's World Cities explores the relationship between major metropolises and the production, consumption and mythologizing of fashion."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Part I. Urban modernity and urban orders: 1. From Paris to Shanghai: the changing geographies of fashion's world cities / David Gilbert

2. Urbane fashion / Elizabeth Wilson

Part II. Styles and representations: 3. Paris, Capitale de la Mode: representing the fashion city in the media / Agnès Rocamora

4. Placing Tokyo on the fashion map: from catwalk to streetstyle / Yuniya Kawamura

5. Curating the fashion city: New York style at the V&A / Sonnet Stanfill

6. New stars, new fashions and their female audience: cinema, consumption and cities 1953-1966 / Pamela Church Gibson

Part III. Re-fabricating the urban order: 7. How New York stole modern fashion / Norma Rantisi

8. Milan: The city of Prêt-à-Porter in a world of fast fashion / Simona Segre Reinach

9. Mapping Moscow fashion: spaces and spectacles of consumption / Olga Vainshtein

10. Shaping the shopping city: master plans and pipe dreams in London's West End 1945-1979 / Bronwen Edwards

Part IV. Fashion cities and transnational networks: 11. La Mode Dakaroise: elegance, transnationalism and an African fashion capital / Hudita Nura Mustafa

12. Far out and way in: London as fashion cosmopolis 1945-1979 / Sonia Ashmore

13. Fabrications of India: transnational fashion networks / Claire Dwyer

14. Sewing machines and dream machines: Los Angeles and San Francisco: the case of the blue jean \ Leslie W. Rabine and Susan Kaiser.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-270) and index.

Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2014 dcunns

Other Format:

Original

ISBN:

9780857854117 (online)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.