Screen LibraryPrêt-à-porter, Paris and women : a cultural study of French readymade fashion, 1945-68 /
"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 -- Pr{cric}et-à...
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Bloomsbury Visual Arts,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Fashion: visual & material interconnections
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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 -- Pr{cric}et-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."-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 243 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781350126190 1350126195 9781350215931 1350215937 |
| Index Number: | GT500 |
| CLC: | TS941-095.65 |
| Call Number: | TS941-095.65/R759 |
| Contents: |
Introduction -- Accessing the everyday: prêt-à-porter, Paris and women in magazines, 1945-65 -- Branding prêt-à-porter in the fourth Republic (1946-58): modernization, cultural diplomacy and industry debates -- Displaying industrial modernity in 1950s Elle: readymade dress, rational space and the image of women -- Negotiating the avant-garde in the 1960s: stylisme, industry debates and restless images -- Expanding the urban fabric in the 1960s: redefined bodies, dress and city space -- Conclusion. |