Paris fashion : a cultural history
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Paris fashion : a cultural history
Oxford University Press, 1988
Available at 32 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. 303-309
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is not just a history of 'haut couture', but a penetrating social history of French life and art. It takes a literary approach to the subject, with chapters on Baudelaire's dandy, on the role of fashion in the novels of Balzac and Proust; and the relationship between fashion illustration and avant-garde painting. It looks at fashion today, concentrating particularly on the question of whether women designers create styles that are more liberating for their female customers than those produced by their male counterparts and includes portraits of the lives of ten milliners and seamstresses that provides an insight into 19th-century working conditions. Readership: people interested in fashion: social historians; historians of France.
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