Fashion: Visual and Material Interconnections Ser.: Prêt-à-Porter, Paris and ...

Prt--Porter, Paris and WomenA Cultural Study of French Readymade Fashion, 1945-68\nAuthor(s): Alexis Romano\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts\nISBN-13: 9781350215931, 978-1350215931\nSynopsis\nIn 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 Prt--Porter: Paris and Women situates the ready-made in wider cultural discourses of art, design, urbanism, technology and international policy.\n\nThrough 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 prt--porter in such magazines alongside other cultural ephemera such as cont.