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Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion
By (author) Nancy J. Troy
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In Couture Culture, Nancy Troy offers a new model of how art and fashion were linked in the early twentieth century. Focusing on a leader of the French fashion industry, Paul Poiret, Troy uncovers a logic of fashion based on the tension between originality and reproduction that bears directly on art historical issues of the period. This tension lies at the heart of haute couture, which, although designed for the wealthy, was also intended to be adapted for sale in department stores and other clothing outlets that catered to a broader consumer market. Troy examines the relationships between elite and popular culture, the professional theatre and the fashion show, as well as the presumed polarity between classical and Orientalist sensibilities. She shows how Poiret and other designers patronised the arts and presented themselves as artists not only to sell their individual dresses to wealthy clients but also to promote the mass production of their designs. The contradictions she uncovers suggest surprising parallels with the ready-mades and fashion-related work of Marcel Duchamp, who explored the questions of originality and authenticity raised by couture culture.
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Publisher | MIT Press Ltd
Published date | 2 Apr 2004
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Format | Paperback
Pages | 450
Dimensions | 229 x 178 x 22mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 858g
ISBN | 978-0-2627-0103-7
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