Pret-a-Porter, Paris and WomenAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 16 June 2022
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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 â?" PrAªt-A -Porter: Paris and Women â?" 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 prAªt-A -porter in such magazines â?" alongside other cultural ephemera such as contemporary film, documentary photography and family photographs â?" demonstrate that popular conceptions of fashion and modernity shifted in the period 1945-68. By connecting national and personal histories, PrAªt-A -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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