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Prêt-À-Porter, Paris and Women: A Cultural Study of French Readymade Fashion, 1945-68

Prêt-À-Porter, Paris and Women: A Cultural Study of French Readymade Fashion, 1945-68

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Series: Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections

Business GeneralFashion & AccessoriesFrench History

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ISBN10: 1350215937
ISBN13: 9781350215931
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: Aug 11 2022
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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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