Paris, capital of fashion

Steele, Valerie, (editor.). Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.), (host institution.).

Summary: "Paris, Capital of Fashion accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at FIT, New York's only museum dedicated solely to the art of fashion. This lavishly-illustrated book is edited by MFIT's director and chief curator, Valerie Steele, also the author of the acclaimed Paris Fashion: A Cultural History. This new book opens with an important essay on how and why Paris became famous as the international "capital of fashion.""--

Record details

ISBN: 9781350102972
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 pages) : colour illustrations
remote
electronic
reformatted digital
Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Valerie Steele -- Chapter 1: Paris, "Capital of Fashion" -- Valerie Steele -- Chapter 2: Paris, London, Shanghai: Touring the Fashion Imaginary -- Christopher Breward -- Chapter 3: Paris, New York, London, Milan ... Paris and a world order of fashion capitals -- David Gilbert -- Chapter 4: Paris and A Tale of Italian Cities -- Grazia D'Annunzio -- Chapter 5: Between Beijing and Shanghai: fashion in the Party state -- Antonia Finnane -- Chapter 6: The Cultural Value of Parisian Couture -- Sophie Kurkdjian -- Chapter 7: #parisienne: Social Media Stratification in Visions of Parisian Women -- Agnès Rocamora.