House of fashion
Subtitle: haute couture and the modern interior
By: Jess Berry
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781474283397; 9781474283403
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Interior decoration; Themes, motives; Fashion and architecture
Description: "Taking us from the early years of haute couture to the luxury fashion flagship stores of the present day, House of Fashion provides a full historical account of the interplay between fashion and the modern interior. Berry explores how the salon, the atelier, and the boutique have allowed fashion to move beyond the aesthetics of dress, and demonstrates how these spaces continue to function as sites for performing modern, gendered identities for designers and their clientele alike. In doing so, it traces how designers including Poiret, Vionnet, Chanel, Schiaparelli, and Dior used commercial spaces and domestic interiors to enhance their credentials as connoisseurs of taste and style. Drawing on rich visual sources, this interdisciplinary study sets out fashion's links with key figures in architecture and design, including Robert Mallet-Stevens, Eileen Gray, and Jean-Michel Frank. House of Fashion establishes the fashion interior as central to our understanding of intersections between dress, architecture, and style"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The house of fashion; title: Fashion, modernity, and the interior; title: Setting the stage : salons of seduction; title: Private settings, public lives : defining artistic identity through the home; title: Architects of dress reform; title: Framing the modern woman : performing fashionable lifestyles; title: Behind the curtain : staging craft in the atelier during the golden age of couture; title: Decadent decors : designing desire through boutique display; title: Beyond modern : an overview of the relationship between fashion and the interior from the 1960s to the present.