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Book SynopsisIlya Parkins is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada.
Trade ReviewAlthough this slim but thickly-argued book provides basic information about three important French designers, their fashion houses and signature styles and is informed by the existing scholarship on the history of haute couture,
Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli: Fashion, Femininity and Modernity is not so much a work of fashion history as it is a new and promising combination of autobiographical analyses, feminist theory and philosophy. -- Mary Lynn Stewart, Simon Fraser University * H-France Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Fashion, Femininity and Modernity in Designer Self-Fashioning Fashion and the Time of Modern Femininity Paul Poiret: Classic and New in the Struggle for Designer Mastery Elsa Schiaparelli: Glamour, Privacy and Timelessness Christian Dior: Nostalgia and the Economy of Feminine Beauty Conclusion: Fashioning Self, Reflecting Ambivalence Bibliography
