Fashioning the city
Subtitle: Paris, fashion and the media
By: Agnès Rocamora
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781845118976
Subjects: In mass media; Fashion; Periodicals; Public opinion; Press coverage
Description: While much attention has been paid to the making of Paris in the work of writers and artists, little is known about the city as defined and created by the fashion media. Filling this gap in studies of the French capital, this original and illuminating book focuses on how the French fashion press - with its rich conjunction of words and images - has been able to construct Paris as a leading world fashion city. Based in an original analysis of fashion writing and images in contemporary French fashion magazines and newspapers, the book shows how the fashion media have been central to the consecrat.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-230) and index.