Fashion's world cities
By: edited by Christopher Breward and David Gilbert.
Contributors: Breward, Christopher, 1965-; Gilbert, David.
Series: Cultures of consumption series
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781845204136; 9781845204129
Subjects: Clothing trade; Fashion; Fashion design; Metropolitan areas; City and town life
Description: This book examines the powerful relationship between metropolitan modernity and fashion culture. The authors look at the significance of certain key sites in fashion's world order and at transformations in the connections between key cities. The status of fashion capital has now become a goal for urban boosters and planners, part of the wider promotion of the "cultural economy" of major cities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-270) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Urban modernity and urban orders: 1. From Paris to Shanghai: the changing geographies of fashion's world cities / David Gilbert; title: 2. Urbane fashion / Elizabeth Wilson; title: Part II. Styles and representations: 3. Paris, Capitale de la Mode: representing the fashion city in the media / Agnès Rocamora; title: 4. Placing Tokyo on the fashion map: from catwalk to streetstyle / Yuniya Kawamura; title: 5. Curating the fashion city: New York style at the V&A / Sonnet Stanfill; title: 6. New stars, new fashions and their female audience: cinema, consumption and cities 1953-1966 / Pamela Church Gibson; title: Part III. Re-fabricating the urban order: 7. How New York stole modern fashion / Norma Rantisi; title: 8. Milan: The city of Prêt-à-Porter in a world of fast fashion / Simona Segre Reinach; title: 9. Mapping Moscow fashion: spaces and spectacles of consumption / Olga Vainshtein; title: 10. Shaping the shopping city: master plans and pipe dreams in London's West End 1945-1979 / Bronwen Edwards; title: Part IV. Fashion cities and transnational networks: 11. La Mode Dakaroise: elegance, transnationalism and an African fashion capital / Hudita Nura Mustafa; title: 12. Far out and way in: London as fashion cosmopolis 1945-1979 / Sonia Ashmore; title: 13. Fabrications of India: transnational fashion networks / Claire Dwyer; title: 14. Sewing machines and dream machines: Los Angeles and San Francisco: the case of the blue jean \  Leslie W. Rabine and Susan Kaiser.