ISBN:
9780415961493
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (276 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version The Places and Spaces of Fashion 1800-2007
DDC:
391.009
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The Places and Spaces of Fashion, 1800-2007 brings together art, design, fashion, and a much neglected concern for its spatial realities. The spaces and places of fashion have often been overlooked in the writing of fashion history and visual culture. More often than not, however, these environments mitigate, control, inform, and enhance how fashion is experienced, performed, consumed, seen, exhibited, purchased, appreciated and of course displayed. Space, as this volume attempts to illustrate, is itself a representational strategy on par with and influencing the visibility and visuality of fa
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; The Places and Spaces of Fashion, 1800-2007; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Introduction: Inserting Fashion Into Space; PART I Picturing Fashion/Fashionable Pictures; 1 Tracking Fashions: Risking It All at the Hippodrome de Longchamp; 2 Framing the Victorians: Photography, Fashion, and Identity; 3 On The Golden Stairs: The Spectacle of the Victorian Woman in White; 4 Maurice de Rothschild's "Remembrances of Things Past": Costume Obsession and Decadence, the Collection of a Belle Époque Dandy; PART II Cultures of Display
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Fashion's Chameleons: Camouflage, "Conspicuousness," and Gendered Display During World War I6 Making the Princeton Man: Collegiate Clothing and Campus Culture, 1900-20; 7 Elegance and Spectacle in Berlin: The Gerson Fashion Store and the Rise of the Modern Fashion Show; 8 The City Boutique: Milan and the Spaces of Fashion; 9 Libertine Acts: Fashion and Furniture; PART III Window Dressing and Boutique Culture; 10 Dressing Rooms: Women, Fashion, and the Department Store; 11 The Logic of the Mannequin: Shop Windows and the Realist Novel
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Allure of the Silent Beauties: Mannequins and Display in America, 1935-7013 "A House That Is Made of Hats": The Lilly Daché Building, 1937-68; 14 From "Paradise" to Cyberspace: The Revival of the Bourgeois Marketplace; 15 Armani/Architecture: The Timelessness and Textures of Space; Notes on Contributors; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
