Paris Fashion

A Cultural History

Valerie Steele (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

344 Seiten

2017 | 3rd edition
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-4742-4548-7 (ISBN)

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Paris has been the international capital of fashion for more than 300 years. Even before the rise of the haute couture, Parisians were notorious for their obsession with fashion, and foreigners eagerly followed their lead. From Charles Frederick Worth to Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent, fashion history is dominated by the names of Parisian couturiers. But Valerie Steele’s Paris Fashion is much more than just a history of great designers. This fascinating book demonstrates that the success of Paris ultimately rests on the strength of its fashion culture – created by a host of fashion performers and spectators, including actresses, dandies, milliners, artists, and writers.

First published in 1988 to great international acclaim, this pioneering book has now been completely revised and brought up to date, encompassing the rise of fashion’s multiple world cities in the 21st century. Lavishly illustrated, deeply learned, and elegantly written, Valerie Steele's masterwork explores with brilliance and flair why Paris remains the capital of fashion.

Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she has organized more than 25 exhibitions. She is also the founder and editor in chief of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, and the author of more than 20 books including The Corset: A Cultural History; Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power; and Women of Fashion: Twentieth-Century Designers. Described in The Washington Post as one of "fashion's brainiest women" and by Suzy Menkes as "The Freud of Fashion," Steele combines serious scholarship (and a Yale Ph.D.) with the rare ability to communicate with general audiences. 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.

Acknowledgements
Preface
List of Illustrations
1. Paris, capital of Fashion?
2. The Birth of Paris Fashion
3. Liberty of Dress
4. Fashion in Balzac’s Paris
5. The Black Prince of Elegance
6. Fashioning the Parisienne
7. Capital of Luxury and Fashion
8. The Theater of Fashion
9. The Private Life of Paris
10. La Mode Retrouvée
11. Into the 20th Century
12. Chanel and her Rivals
13. Fashion under the Occupation
14. Ups and Downs of Paris Fashion
15. Fashion’s World Cities

Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.09.2017
Zusatzinfo	197 colour illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	219 x 276 mm
Gewicht	1646 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4742-4548-X / 147424548X
ISBN-13	978-1-4742-4548-7 / 9781474245487
Zustand	Neuware