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House of fashion : haute couture and the modern interior
Author
Title
House of fashion : haute couture and the modern interior / Jess Berry.
ISBN
9781474283397 (hardback)
9781474283403 (paperback)
9781474283427 (online)
9781474283410 (epdf)
147428342X
Publication
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 20, 2019)
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"Since Charles Fredrick Worth established his luxurious Maison de Couture in 1858, the interior has played a crucial role in the display of fashion. House of Fashion provides a full historical account of the interplay between fashion and the modern interior, demonstrating how they continue to function as a site for performing modern, gendered identities for designers and their clientele alike. In doing so, it traces how designers including Poiret, Vionnet, Schiaparelli and Dior used commercial spaces and domestic interiors to enhance their credentials as connoisseurs of taste and style. Taking us from the early years of haute couture to the luxury fashion of the present day, Berry explores how the salon, the atelier and the boutique have allowed fashion to move beyond the aesthetics of dress, to embrace the visual seduction of the theatrical, artistic, and the exotic. From the Art Deco allure of Coco Chanel's Maison to the luminous spaces of contemporary flagship stores, House of Fashion sets out fashion's links with key figures in architecture and design, including Louis Süe, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Eileen Gray, and Jean-Michel Frank. Drawing on photographs, advertisements, paintings and illustrations, this interdisciplinary study examines how fashionable interiors have shaped our understanding of architecture, dress, and elegance"--Bloomsbury Fashion Central.
Variant and related titles
Berg fashion library.
Other formats
Previously issued in print: Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2018. Digital resource published 2019.
Print version
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 04, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Table of Contents: List of plates
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Fashion, modernity and the interior
Chapter 2. Setting the stage: salons of seduction
Chapter 3. Private settings, public lives: defining artistic identity through the home
Chapter 4. Architects of dress reform
Chapter 5. Framing the modern woman: performing fashionable lifestyles
Chapter 6. Behind the curtain: staging craft in the atelier in the golden age of couture
Chapter 7. Decadent decors: designing desire through boutique display
Chapter 8. Beyond modern: an overview of the relationship between fashion and the interior from 1960 to the present.
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
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