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Informationen zum Autor Chris Breward is the Director of National Museums Scotland. He was trained at the Courtauld Institute and the Royal College of Art, London and has previously worked as Director of Collection and Research at the National Galleries of Scotland, Head of Research at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and as Principal of Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. His published interests include the relationship between art and fashion, visual and cultural histories of masculinity, and histories of city life. He is the author of Fashioning London (Bloomsbury, 2004) and co-editor of Material Memories (Bloomsbury, 1999), The Englishness of English Dress (Bloomsbury, 2002), Fashion and Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2005), Fashion's World Cities (Bloomsbury, 2006), and Styling Shanghai (Bloomsbury, 2020). Zusammenfassung Examines the relationship between metropolitan modernity and fashion culture. This book looks at the significance of certain key sites in fashion's world order and at transformations in the connections between key cities. It explores the relationship between major metropolises and the production, consumption, and mythologizing of fashion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part One: Fashion's World Cities: urban modernity and urban orders* From Paris to Shanghai: the changing geographies of fashion's world citiesDavid Gilbert, Royal Holloway, University of London* Urbane Fashion: Fashionability and the cityElizabeth Wilson, University of the Arts, LondonPart Two: Fashion's World Cities: styles and representations* Paris, Capitale de la Mode: Representing the fashion city in the mediaAgnes Rocamora, London College of Fashion* Placing Tokyo on the Fashion Map: From catwalk to streetstyleYuniya Kawamura, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York* Curating the Fashion City: New York style at the VASonnet Stanfill, Victoria and Albert Museum, London* Creating the Fashion City on Film 1953-1961Pamela Church Gibson, London College of FashionPart 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 FashionNorma Rantisi, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec* Mapping Moscow Fashion: Spaces and spectacles of consumptionOlga Vainshtein, Russian State University for the Humanities* Shaping the Shopping City: Master plans and pipe dreams in London's West End 1945-1979Bronwen Edwards Royal Holloway, University of London Part Four: Fashion's World Cities: Transnational Networks* La Mode Dakaroise: Elegance, transnationalism and an African fashion capitalHudita Nura Mustafa, Sarah Lawrence College (NY)* Far Out and Way In: London as fashion cosmopolis, 1945-1979Sonia Ashmore, London College of Fashion* Fabrications of India: Transnational networks and the making of 'East/West' fashionClaire Dwyer, University College London* Sewing Machines and Dream Machines: Los Angeles and San Francisco as global fashion citiesSusan Kaiser Leslie W. Rabine, University of California, Davis...
