{"product_id":"9781350126190","title":"Prêt-à-Porter, Paris and Women : A Cultural Study of French Readymade Fashion, 1945-68","description":"\u003cstrong\u003ePrêt-à-Porter, Paris and Women\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Alexis Romano\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first critical history of French ready-made fashion, Alexis Romano examines an array of cultural sources, including surviving garments, fashion magazines, film, photography and interviews, to weave together previously disparate historical narratives. The resulting volume – \u003ci\u003ePrêt-à-Porter: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eParis and Women\u003c\/i\u003e – situates the ready-made in wider cultural discourses of art, design, urbanism, technology and international policy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough a close study of fashion magazines, including Vogue and Elle, Romano reveals how the French ready-made and the genre of fashion photography in France developed in tandem. Analyses of representations of space, women and prêt-à-porter in such magazines – alongside other cultural ephemera such as contemporary film, documentary photography and family photographs – demonstrate that popular conceptions of fashion and modernity shifted in the period 1945-68.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy connecting national and personal histories, \u003ci\u003ePrêt-à-Porter: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eParis and Women\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the importance of the ready-made to broader narratives of postwar reconstruction, national identity, gender and international dialogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781350126190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Visual Arts","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40731651375310,"sku":"9781350126190","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_9c6dddd1-11a2-4c18-b8dc-87d896406e01.jpg?v=1641185562","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781350126190","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}