Fashion’s World Cities (2006)
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Oxford: Berg, 2006
ISBN: 1845204131 9781845204136
OCLC Number: 475339911
Description: 285 s. : illustrations
Table of contents
Table of contents
Part One: Fashion’s World Cities: urban modernity and urban orders
- From Paris to Shanghai: the changing geographies of fashion’s world cities
David Gilbert, Royal Holloway, University of London - Urbane Fashion: Fashionability and the city
Elizabeth Wilson, University of the Arts, London
Part Two: Fashion’s World Cities: styles and representations
- Paris, Capitale de la Mode: Representing the fashion city in the media
Agnes Rocamora, London College of Fashion - Placing Tokyo on the Fashion Map: From catwalk to streetstyle
Yuniya Kawamura, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York - Curating the Fashion City: New York style at the VA
Sonnet Stanfill, Victoria and Albert Museum, London - Creating the Fashion City on Film 1953-1961
Pamela Church Gibson, London College of Fashion
Part Three: Fashion’s World Cities: refabricating the urban order
- Milan, the city of pret porter: From Italian style to ‘Made in Milan’
Simona Segre Reinach, Fashion Studies, IULM University, Milan - How New York Stole Modern Fashion
Norma Rantisi, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec - Mapping Moscow Fashion: Spaces and spectacles of consumption
Olga Vainshtein, Russian State University for the Humanities - Shaping the Shopping City: Master plans and pipe dreams in London’s West End 1945-1979
Bronwen Edwards Royal Holloway, University of London
Part Four: Fashion’s World Cities: Transnational Networks
- La Mode Dakaroise: Elegance, transnationalism and an African fashion capital
Hudita Nura Mustafa, Sarah Lawrence College (NY) - Far Out and Way In: London as fashion cosmopolis, 1945-1979
Sonia Ashmore, London College of Fashion - Fabrications of India: Transnational networks and the making of ‘East/West’ fashion
Claire Dwyer, University College London - Sewing Machines and Dream Machines: Los Angeles and San Francisco as global fashion cities
Susan Kaiser & Leslie W. Rabine, University of California, Davis
About the author
About the author
Christopher Breward is Director of Collection and Research at the National Galleries of Scotland, UK and Professorial Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the author of Fashioning London (Bloomsbury, 2004) and co-editor of The Englishness of English Dress (Bloomsbury, 2002) and Fashion’s World Cities (Bloomsbury, 2006).
External links
External links
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Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Eicher, Joanne. “Book review: Fashion’s world cities. By Christopher Breward and David Gilbert.” Cultural Geographies, 16:3 (2009), 415–415. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474009105057