Fashion's World Cities

by Breward, Christopher; Gilbert, David

• ISBN13: 9781845204136
• ISBN10: 1845204131
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-12
• Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd

Summary

New York, Paris, London, Milan, Tokyo. This familiar list of cities conjures up the image of high fashion. 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. In a rapidly changing global fashion system, new centres like Shanghai are making claims to join the ranks of Fashion's World Cities. In chapters ranging from Los Angeles to Moscow and Dakar to Mumbai, Fashion's World Cities explores the relationship between major metropolises and the production, consumption and mythologizing of fashion.

Author Biography

David Gilbert is at Royal Holloway University, London. Christopher Breward is at Victoria Albert Museum, London.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
Preface	ix
Christopher Breward
Acknowledgements	xi
Contributors	xii
Part I Urban Modernity and Urban Orders
From Paris to Shanghai: The Changing Geographies of Fashion's World Cities	3	(30)
David Gilbert
Urbane Fashion	33	(10)
Elizabeth Wilson
Part II Styles and Representations
Paris, Capitale de la Mode: Representing the Fashion City in the Media	43	(12)
Agnes Rocamora
Placing Tokyo on the Fashion Map: From Catwalk to Streetstyle	55	(14)
Yuniya Kawamura
Curating the Fashion City: New York Fashion at the V&A	69	(20)
Sonnet Stanfill
New Stars, New Fashions and the Female Audience: Cinema, Consumption and Cities 1953--1966	89	(20)
Pamela Church Gibson
Part III Re-fabricating the Urban Order
How New York Stole Modern Fashion	109	(14)
Norma Rantisi
Milan: The City of Pret-a-Porter in a World of Fast Fashion	123	(12)
Simona Segre Reinach
Mapping Moscow Fashion: Spaces and Spectacles of Consumption	135	(24)
Olga Vainshtein
Shaping the Fashion City: Master Plans and Pipe Dreams in the Post-War West End of London	159	(18)
Bronwen Edwards
Part IV Fashion Cities and Transnational Networks
La Mode Dakaroise: Elegance, Transnationalism and an African Fashion Capital	177	(24)
Hudita Nura Mustafa
Far Out and Way In: London as Fashion Cosmopolis 1945--1979	201	(16)
Sonia Ashmore
Fabrications of India: Transnational Fashion Networks	217	(18)
Claire Dwyer
Sewing Machines and Dream Machines in Los Angeles and San Francisco: The Case of the Blue Jean	235	(16)
Leslie W. Rabine
Susan Kaiser
References	251	(20)
Index	271