Fashion Under the Occupation
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (655 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1859735487 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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MMdesigner said Detailed Fashion History. Wow, this has totally expanded my fashion knowledge. It really is a history lesson through the prism of fashion. If you are a fashion history junkie like me, you will lap up every page of this book. It should be required at every fashion design school.. Informative and Easy to Read This is a well-researched and interesting presentation of Parisian fashion during World War II. I found it helpful to compare the information presented in this book with the stories and statistics in Nazi 'Chic'? by Irene Guenther, an analysis of the German fashion industry during the same ti
Translated from the French by Miriam Kochan . Dominique Veillon is Director of Research, Institut d'histoire du temps prsent, CNRS
“It is only now, with the publication, in Paris, of Dominique Veillon's La Mode sous l'Occupation, that we learn how valiantly French women's impulse to express themselves in the clothes they wear adapted itself to their straightened lives, and how narrowly the French fashion industry escaped extinction.” The New Yorker“This rich work (and good read) dedicated to a new subject, will enrich our knowledge of the war-time economy in a significant way.” Jean-Pierre Le Crom, H-France
At home and abroad, couturiers' wealthy clients eagerly awaited the latest collections, and design houses throughout the world looked to Paris for inspiration. French women, determined not to give way to the inevitable austerities, sought innovation: hats made from blotting paper or newspapers - the latter signalling political allegiances - and blouses made out of parachute silk, often obtained through dubious means. Widely acknowledged as the authoritative work on fashion during this period, it is available in English for the first time and will be essential reading for anyone interested in fashion, French cultural history, and particularly the German Occupation of France.. Not only did life go on, but creativity flourished - culottes, which enabled stylish bicycle journeys, became the vogue, and couturiers capitalized on deprivation with wit - dubbing designs 'Coal' and 'Black Coffee', or naming an entire collection after Métro stops.Fashion under the Occupation provides the only in-depth history of these blackest years in French history, long overlooked by fashion history because of the impoverished industry and deprivations that affected design. Unparalleled for glamour and elegance, all thi