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Prêt-à-porter, Paris and women : a cultural study of French readymade fashion, 1945-68
Abstract
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.
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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.
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| Description | *Prêt-à-porter, Paris and women : a cultural study of French readymade fashion, 1945-68 / Alexis Romano London [etc.] : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022 xvi, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
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| Year | 2022 | |
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| Lingua | Inglese | |
| BID | SBT0050940 | |
| ISBN | 9781350215931 | |
| Series | Fashion : visual and material interconnections |