The Women of 'Little Paris' - Sonia-Doris Andras

The Women of 'Little Paris'

Fashion in Interwar Bucharest
Buch | Hardcover
256 Seiten
2024
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-29445-5 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
Filling a gap in Eastern European fashion studies, this book presents middle-class women consuming fashion in the symbolic ‘Little Paris’ of interwar Bucharest, and examines how their material and cultural means supported the city’s modernisation.

Combining archival research with personal archaeology, this interdisciplinary work explores Romania’s reinvention as a modern state, focusing on middle-class women as they lived their lives - walking through the streets, at lavish events, at cafes and clubs, shopping, and working. Analysing largely unseen, unused written and visual texts, The Women of 'Little Paris' encourages exploration of new avenues for research, uniting scholars of Romanian culture, history and fashion and guiding readers through a forgotten, little explored world and, in so doing, adds to our understanding and knowledge of the global image of interwar fashion cultures and the emerging field of Romanian fashion studies.

Sonia-Doris Andras is a postdoctoral fashion researcher, primarily focusing on themes related to fashion, gender, urban cultures and modernity in a Romanian context. She has a PhD from London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK. She is Associate Researcher within the research project The Ethos of Dialogue and Education: Romanian – American Cultural Negotiations (1920-1940) at the “Gheorghe Sincai” Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities in Târgu-Mures, Romania.

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Mapping the interwar World
Inventing Greater Romania
Fashioning the Romanian Paradox

3. Interwar Metropolitan and Urban Cultures
Women, Life, Fashion and Industry in the City
‘Little Paris’: A National Rebirth Project

4. From the Modern Girl to the New Woman
Gender Dynamics
Crafting the ‘New Romanian Woman’

5. Authors and Characters: Women in Literature
Fictional Women, Real Bucharests
Diaries, Memoirs, Biographies

6. From Subjects to Creators: Women Imagined in the Arts
Portraying Fashion
Performing Fashion

7. Transition to New Visual Forms: Film, Photography
Fashioning the Silver Screen
“Pictured with Nose Up, like Moms Wanted”

8. Conclusion

Bibliography
Appendix
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.12.2024
Reihe/Serie Dress Cultures
Zusatzinfo 95 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-350-29445-4 / 1350294454
ISBN-13 978-1-350-29445-5 / 9781350294455
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