- Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Prêt-À-Porter, Paris and Women: A Cultural Study of French Readymade Fashion, 1945-68
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- Alexis Romano
- Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- Hardcover
- 9781350126190
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- Business & Economics > Industries - Fashion & Textile Industry
- English
Book Description
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�t-�-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 pr�t-�-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, Pr�t-�-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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