Couture culture : a study in modern art and fashion / Nancy J. Troy.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2003.Description: xi, 438 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0262201402 (hc : alk. paper)
- Poiret, Paul
- Poiret, Paul, 1879-1944
- Fashion design
- Fashion and art
- Fashion -- France -- History -- 20th century
- Clothing trade -- France -- History -- 20th century
- Fashion designers -- France -- History -- 20th century
- Fashion merchandising -- France -- History -- 20th century
- Theater and society -- France -- History -- 20th century
- 746.9 TRO
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In Couture Culture Nancy Troy offers a new model of how art and fashion were linked in the early 20th century. Focusing on a leader of the French fashion industry, Paul Poiret, Troy uncovers a logic of fashion based on the tension between originality and reproduction that bears directly on art historical issues of the period. This tension lies at the heart of haute couture, which, although designed for the wealthy, was also intended to be adapted for sale in department stores and other clothing outlets that catered to a broader consumer market.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [386]-414) and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgments (p. viii)
- Introduction (p. 2)
- 1 Fashion, Art, and the Marketing of Modernism (p. 18)
- 2 Theater and the Spectacle of Fashion (p. 80)
- 3 Fashioning Commodity Culture (p. 192)
- 4 The Readymade and the Genuine Reproduction (p. 266)
- Conclusion (p. 327)
- Notes (p. 338)
- Sources Consulted (p. 386)
- List of Illustrations (p. 415)
- Index (p. 429)