Couture culture : a study in modern art and fashion /
Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003.Description: xi, 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780262701037
- 0262701030
- 9780262201407
- 0262201402
- Poiret, Paul
- Poiret, Paul, 1879-1944
- Fashion design
- Fashion and art
- Fashion -- France -- History -- 20th century
- Clothing trade -- France -- History -- 20th century
- Fashion designers -- France -- History -- 20th century
- Fashion merchandising -- France -- History -- 20th century
- Theater and society -- France -- History -- 20th century
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TT 507 SUS WEA Sustainable fashion : responsible consumption, design, fabrics, and materials | TT 507 SUS WIC To dye for : how toxic fashion is making us sick--and how we can fight back / | TT 507 TOW Rapture : | TT 507 TRO Couture culture : | TT 509 BLA 100 years of fashion illustration / | TT 509 BLA 100 years of fashion / | TT 509 BUR Fashion artist : drawing techniques to portfolio presentation / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-414) and index.
1. Fashion, Art, and the Marketing of Modernism -- 2. Theater and the Spectacle of Fashion -- 3. Fashioning Commodity Culture -- 4. The Readymade and the Genuine Reproduction.
"In Couture Culture, Nancy Troy offers a new model of how art and fashion were linked in the early twentieth century. Focusing on a leader of the French fashion industry, Paul Poiret, Troy uncovers a logic of fashion based on the tension between originality and reproduction that bears directly on art historical issues of the period. This tension lies at the heart of haute couture, which, although designed for the wealthy, was also intended to be adapted for sale in department stores and other clothing outlets that catered to a broader consumer market. Troy examines the relationships between elite and popular culture, the professional theater and the fashion show, as well as the presumed polarity between classical and Orientalist sensibilities.
She shows how Poiret and other designers patronized the arts and presented themselves as artists not only to sell their individual dresses to wealthy clients but also to promote the mass production of their designs. The contradictions she uncovers suggest surprising parallels with the readymades and fashion-related work of Marcel Duchamp, who explored the questions of originality and authenticity raised by couture culture during the 1910s and 1920s." "In contrast to dominant accounts of early twentieth-century art that have dismissed fashion as superficial, fleeting, and feminized, Troy's more nuanced approach reveals conceptual structures and marketing strategies shared by modern art and fashion in these years."--Jacket.