Paris Fashion: A Cultural History

by Valerie Steele

Book Overview

Paris has been the international capital of style for over three hundred years. In this provocative and richly illustrated volume, Valerie Steele--author of the highly acclaimed Fashion and Eroticism--offers a penetrating social and cultural analysis of fashion in Paris. More than just a history of famous designers and changing styles, the book is about fashion as a cultural ideal and a social phenomenon. Steele explains why Paris was the center of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195044657
• ISBN13: 9780195044652
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 10.3"