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Prêt-à -Porter, Paris and Women: A Cultural Study of French Readymade Fashion, 1945-68
By (author) Alexis Romano
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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.
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Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published date | 16 Jun 2022
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 264
Dimensions | 234 x 156 x 0mm (L x W x H)
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ISBN | 978-1-3501-2619-0
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