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Author Berry, Jess, author.

Title House of fashion : haute couture and the modern interior / Jess Berry, Griffith University, Australia.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents 1. Fashion, Modernity and the Interior -- 2. Setting the Stage: Salons of Seduction -- 3. Private Settings, Public Lives: Defining Artistic Identity through the Home -- 4. Architects of Dress Reform -- 5. Framing the Modern Woman: Performing Fashionable Lifestyles -- 6. Behind the Curtain: Staging Craft in the Atelier in the Golden Age of Couture -- 7. Decadent Decors: Designing Desire through Boutique Display -- 8. Beyond Modern: An Overview of the Relationship Between Fashion and the Interior from 1960 to the Present.
Summary "Since Charles Fredrick Worth established his luxurious Maison de Couture in 1858, the interior has played a crucial role in the display of fashion. House of Fashion provides a full historical account of the interplay between fashion and the modern interior, demonstrating how they continue to function as a site for performing modern, gendered identities for designers and their clientele alike. In doing so, it traces how designers including Poiret, Vionnet, Schiaparelli and Dior used commercial spaces and domestic interiors to enhance their credentials as connoisseurs of taste and style. Taking us from the early years of haute couture to the luxury fashion of the present day, Berry explores how the salon, the atelier and the boutique have allowed fashion to move beyond the aesthetics of dress, to embrace the visual seduction of the theatrical, artistic, and the exotic. From the Art Deco allure of Coco Chanel's Maison to the luminous spaces of contemporary flagship stores, House of Fashion sets out fashion's links with key figures in architecture and design, including Louis Süe, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Eileen Gray, and Jean-Michel Frank. Drawing on photographs, advertisements, paintings and illustrations, this interdisciplinary study examines how fashionable interiors have shaped our understanding of architecture, dress, and elegance."--Bloomsbury Publishing
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Subject Interior decoration -- Themes, motives.
Interior decoration -- Themes, motives.
Fashion and architecture.
Fashion and architecture.
ARCHITECTURE -- Decoration & Ornament.
DESIGN -- Interior Decorating.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Berry, Jess. House of fashion. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018 9781474283397 (DLC) 2017047784 (OCoLC)1005801694
ISBN 9781474283410 (electronic book)
1474283411 (electronic book)
9781474283397
147428339X