Pret-a-Porter, Paris and Women av Alexis (Independent Scholar USA) Romano

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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 ¿ <i>Pr¿¿orter: </i><i>Paris and Women</i> ¿ 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 pr¿¿orter in such magazines ¿ alongside other cultural ephemera such as contemporary film, documentary photography and family photographs ¿ demonstrate that popular conceptions of fashion and modernity shifted in the period 1945-68.By connecting national and personal histories, <i>Pr¿¿orter: </i><i>Paris and Women</i> reveals the im