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Prêt-à-Porter, Paris and women : a cultural study of French readymade fashion, 1945-68
- Title
- Prêt-à-Porter, Paris and women : a cultural study of French readymade fashion, 1945-68 / Alexis Romano.
- Author
- Romano, Alexis
- Publication
- London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 243 pages : illustrations (some colour); 24 cm.
- 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 - Prêt-à-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 prêt-à-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, Prêt-à-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.
- Series Statement
- Fashion: visual & material interconnections
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Ready-to-wear clothing > France > History > 20th century
- Ready-to-wear clothing industry > France > History > 20th century
- Clothing and dress > France > 20th century
- Fashion photography > France > History > 20th century
- Fashion > Social aspects > History > France > 20th century
- Women > France > Social conditions > 20th century
- Fashion photography
- Fashion > Social aspects
- Ready-to-wear clothing
- Ready-to-wear clothing industry
- Social conditions
- Women > Social conditions
- Clothing
- Gender expression
- Women
- Gender identity
- Clothing and dress
- Fashion
- France > Social conditions > 1945-1995
- France
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JQE 23-206
- ISBN
- 9781350215931
- 1350215937
- 9781350126190
- 1350126195
- OCLC
- 1308551103
- Author
- Romano, Alexis, author.
- Title
- Prêt-à-Porter, Paris and women : a cultural study of French readymade fashion, 1945-68 / Alexis Romano.
- Publisher
- London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Fashion: visual & material interconnections
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JQE 23-206