Paris Fashion

Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she has organized more than 25 exhibitions. She is also the founder and editor in chief of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, and the author of more than 20 books including The Corset: A Cultural History; Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power; and Women of Fashion: Twentieth-Century Designers. Described in The Washington Post as one of "fashion's brainiest women" and by Suzy Menkes as "The Freud of Fashion," Steele combines serious scholarship (and a Yale Ph.D.) with the rare ability to communicate with general audiences. As author, curator, editor, and public intellectual, Valerie Steele has been instrumental in creating the modern field of fashion studies and in raising awareness of the cultural significance of fashion.

Acknowledgements
Preface
List of Illustrations
1. Paris, capital of Fashion?
2. The Birth of Paris Fashion
3. Liberty of Dress
4. Fashion in Balzac’s Paris
5. The Black Prince of Elegance
6. Fashioning the Parisienne
7. Capital of Luxury and Fashion
8. The Theater of Fashion
9. The Private Life of Paris
10. La Mode Retrouvée
11. Into the 20th Century
12. Chanel and her Rivals
13. Fashion under the Occupation
14. Ups and Downs of Paris Fashion
15. Fashion’s World Cities

Notes
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Index