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Montréal Chic is the first book to document Montréal's fashion scene and its connection to the city's design, film, music and cultural history. Katrina Sark and Sara Danièle Bélanger-Michaud use their firsthand knowledge of the city's fashion to explore urban culture, music, institutions, scenes and subcultures, uncovering many untold stories.
About the author
Katrina Sark is an associate professor in the Department of Media, Design, Learning, and Cognition at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). She specializes in cultural analysis, cultural history, media, gender studies, sustainability and decoloniality. She is the founder of the Canadian Fashion Scholars Network, the co-founder of the Urban Chic book series, and the co-author of Berliner Chic: A Locational History of Berlin Fashion (Intellect Books, 2011), Montréal Chic: A Locational History of Montreal Fashion (Intellect Books, 2016), and Copenhagen Chic: A Locational History of Copenhagen Fashion (Intellect Books, 2023). Her other publications include Branding Berlin (Routledge, 2023), Social Justice Pedagogies (Toronto University Press, 2023), a Special Issue on ‘Ethical Fashion and Empowerment’ in Clothing Cultures (2021), as well as chapters in Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin (Berghahn, 2017) and World Film Locations: Berlin (Intellect Books, 2012). She is the creator of Chic podcast, dedicated to fashion, design, culture, sustainability, decoloniality, media and technology.
Contact: University of Southern Denmark, Universitetsparken 1, 6000 Kolding, Denmark.
Sara Danièle Bélanger-Michaud is a Montreal-based writer and instructor in French literature and culture. Susan Ingram is associate professor of humanities at York University.
Summary
Montréal Chic is the first book to document Montréal's fashion scene and its connection to the city's design, film, music and cultural history. Katrina Sark and Sara Danièle Bélanger-Michaud use their firsthand knowledge of the city's fashion to explore urban culture, music, institutions, scenes and subcultures, uncovering many untold stories.
