Prêt-à-Porter, Paris and Women

A Cultural Study of French Readymade Fashion, 1945-68

Alexis Romano (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-21593-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Alexis Romano is a scholar of dress, design history and visual culture. She teaches at Parsons School of Design and is co-founder of the Fashion Research Network. She holds a PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art and was the 2020-21 Curatorial Fellow at The Met’s Costume Institute.

List of Illustrations

1. Introduction
2. Critiquing the Everyday: Prêt-à-Porter, Paris and Women in Magazines, 1945-1968
3. Branding Prêt-à-Porter in the Fourth Republic (1946-1958): Modernisation, Cultural Diplomacy and Industry Debates
4. Displaying Industrial Modernity in 1950s Elle: Readymade Dress, Rational Space and Women
5. Negotiating the Avant-Garde in the 1960s: Stylisme, Industry Debates and Restless Images
6. Expanding the Urban Fabric in the 1960s: Redefined Bodies, Dress and City Space
7. Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2022
Reihe/Serie	Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections
Zusatzinfo	16 colour and 38 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-21593-7 / 1350215937
ISBN-13	978-1-350-21593-1 / 9781350215931
Zustand	Neuware