Fashion's world cities / edited by Christopher Breward and David Gilbert.
"New York, Paris, London, Milan, Tokyo. This familiar list of cities conjures up the image of high fashion. This book examines the powerful relationship between metropolitan modernity and fashion culture. The authors look at the significance of certain key sites in fashion's world order an...
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New York :
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c2006.
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| Series: | Cultures of consumption series
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Table of Contents:
- 1. From Paris to Shanghai : the changing geographies of fashion's world cities / David Gilbert
- 2. Urbane fashion / Elizabeth Wilson
- 3. Paris, Capitale de la Mode : representing the fashion city in the media / Agnes Rocamora
- 4. Placing Tokyo on the fashion map : from catwalk to streetstyle / Yuniya Kawamura
- 5. Curating the fashion city : New York fashion at the V&A / Sonnet Stanfill
- 6. New stars, new fashions and the female audience : cinema, consumption and cities 1953-1966 / Pamela Church Gibson
- 7. How New York stole modern fashion / Norma Rantisi
- 8. Milan : the city of Pret-a-Porter in a world of fast fashion / Simona Segre Reinach
- 9. Mapping Moscow fashion : spaces and spectacles of consumption / Olga Vainshtein
- 10. Shaping the fashion city : master plans and pipe dreams in the post-war west end of London / Bronwen Edwards
- 11. La Mode Dakaroise : elegance, transnationalism and an African fashion capital / Hudita Nura Mustafa
- 12. Far out and way in : London as fashion cosmopolis 1945-1979 / Sonia Ashmore
- 13. Fabrications of India : transnational fashion networks / Claire Dwyer
- 14. Sewing machines and dream machines in Los Angeles and San Francisco : the case of the blue jean / Leslie W. Rabine and Susan Kaiser.