Valerie (Hrsg.) Steele

Paris, Capital of Fashion

Buch

Lavishly-illustrated, this book accompanies the major 2019 exhibition at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York and includes the museum director Valerie Steele's ruminations on how and why Paris became famous as the capital of fashion. Paris was mythologized as the capital of modernity, art, and revolution?which would influence its image as the capital of fashion. During and since WW2, Paris faced repeated challenges from other fashion cities, especially London, Milan, and New York. In the 21st century, globalization has also revised the traditional paradigm of center versus periphery, as cities from Shanghai to Sao Paolo… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-350-10294-1
EAN: 9781350102941
Produktnummer: 31338522
Verlag: Bloomsbury
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 216 S.
Masse: H28.4 cm x B22.7 cm x D1.9 cm 1'023 g
Abbildungen: 140 color illus
Gewicht: 1023

Über den Autor

Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT in New York City, where she has curated more than 25 exhibitions in the past 20 years, including 'The Corset: Fashioning the Body', 'Gothic: Dark Glamour', 'A Queer History of Fashion', and 'Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color'. As author, curator, editor, and public intellectual, Valerie Steele has been instrumental in creating the modern field of fashion studies and in raising awareness of the cultural significance of fashion.