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Book SynopsisLouise Wallenberg is Associate Professor of Fashion Studies and holds a PhD in Cinema Studies. She was the establishing Director of the Centre for Fashion Studies, 2006-2013.
Andrea Kollnitz is is Associate Professor of Art History and Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Fashion Studies at Stockholm University.
Trade ReviewOverall, this is an enjoyable book … [W]ill be of interest to general scholars of the modernist period as well as those with a specific interest in dress and fashion history. * The Journal of Dress History *
Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction by Louise Wallenberg and Andrea Kollnitz PART I: ‘Fashion, Change, Modernism’ 1.Sven-Olov Wallenstein, ‘Tarde, Simmel and the Logic of Fashion’ 2.Patrizia Calefato, ‘Italian Futurismo and Fashion’ 3.Ulrich Lehmann, ‘Modernism v. Feminism: George Sand, Paul Gavarni and Trousers for Women’ 4.Louise Wallenberg, ‘Ménilmontant: Time, Space and Urbanity’ 5.Olga Vainshtein, ‘Designing the Future: Constructivist Laboratory of Fashion’ PART II: ‘Creators and Creations’ 6.Caroline Evans, ‘Paris-New York 1925: Jean Patou’s Advertising’ 7.Alessandra Vaccari, ‘The Slit Skirt: Fashion and Empathy in the Tango Era’ 8.Andrea Kollnitz, ‘Look at Me! Fashion as Expression and Strategy in Isaac Grünewald’s and Sigrid Hjertén’s Painting and Self–Staging’ 9.Astrid Söderbergh Widding, ‘Mago’s Modernism: Fashion and the Modern from Smiling Summer Night to Hour of the Wolf’ Bibliography Index
