Paris, capital of fashion / edited by Valerie Steele.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steele, Valerie, editor.

Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fashion--France--Paris--History.

Fashion.

Fashion--Social aspects--France--Paris.

Fashion design--France--Paris--History.

Fashion design.

Fashion History.

History and Culture of Design.

Fashion Design.

Local Subjects:

Fashion History.

History and Culture of Design.

Fashion Design.

Physical Description:

214p. ; ill. (chiefly col)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

System Details:

text file

HTML

PDF

Summary:

"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.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Valerie Steele

Chapter 1: Paris, "Capital of Fashion"

Valerie Steele

Chapter 2: Paris, London, Shanghai: Touring the Fashion Imaginary

Christopher Breward

Chapter 3: Paris, New York, London, Milan ... Paris and a world order of fashion capitals

David Gilbert

Chapter 4: Paris and A Tale of Italian Cities

Grazia D'Annunzio

Chapter 5: Between Beijing and Shanghai: fashion in the Party state

Antonia Finnane

Chapter 6: The Cultural Value of Parisian Couture

Sophie Kurkdjian

Chapter 7: #parisienne: Social Media Stratification in Visions of Parisian Women

Agnès Rocamora.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350102972 : (ebk : Bloomsbury)

OCLC:

1154953861