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Автор: Block, Elizabeth L.
Название: Dressing Up
Перевод названия: Элизабет Л. Блок: Одеваемся
ISBN: 9780262045841
Издательство: MIT Press
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Мода и текстиль: дизайн

ISBN-10: 0262045842
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 280
Вес: 0.84 кг.
Дата издания: 19.10.2021
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 71 colour illustrations, 19 black and white illustrations
Размер: 23.19 x 18.21 x 2.79 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Основная тема: Design
Подзаголовок: The women who influenced french fashion
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: How wealthy American women--as consumers and as influencers--helped shape French couture of the late nineteenth century; lavishly illustrated.

French fashion of the late nineteenth century is known for its allure, its ineffable chic--think of John Singer Sargents Madame X and her scandalously slipping strap. For Parisian couturiers and their American customers, it was also serious business. In Dressing Up, Elizabeth Block examines the couturiers influential clientele--wealthy American women who bolstered the French fashion industry with a steady stream of orders from the United States. Countering the usual narrative of the designer as solo creative genius, Block shows that these women--as high-volume customers and as pre-Internet influencers--were active participants in the eras transnational fashion system.

Block describes the arrival of nouveau riche Americans on the French fashion scene, joining European royalty, French socialites, and famous actresses on the client rosters of the best fashion houses--Charles Frederick Worth, Doucet, and Fйlix, among others. She considers the mutual dependence of couture and coiffure; the participation of couturiers in international expositions (with mixed financial results); the distinctive shopping practices of American women, which ranged from extensive transatlantic travel to quick trips downtown to the department store; the performance of conspicuous consumption at balls and soirйes; the impact of American tariffs on the French fashion industry; and the emergence of smuggling, theft, and illicit copying of French fashions in the American market as the middle class emulated the preferences of the rich. Lavishly illustrated, with vibrant images of dresses, portraits, and fashion plates, Dressing Up reveals the power of American women in French couture.

Winner of the Aileen Ribeiro Grant of the Association of Dress Historians; an Association for Art History grant; and a Pasold Research Fund grant.

Dressing Up, Block, Elizabeth L.