Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion

In Couture Culture Nancy Troy offers a new model of how art and fashion were linked in the early 20th 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.

• Author
• Nancy J. Troy

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 438

• Publisher
• MIT Press (MA)

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780262201407

• Genres
• fashion, history

• Release date
• 2002