Fashion's World Cities [Paperback]

New York, Paris, London, Milan, Tokyo. This familiar list of cities conjures up the image of high fashion. This book examines the powerful relationship between metropolitan modernity and fashion culture. The authors look at the significance of certain key sites in fashion's world order and at transformations in the connections between key cities. The status of fashion capital has now become a goal for urban boosters and planners, part of the wider promotion of the 'cultural economy' of major cities. In a rapidly changing global fashion system, new centres like Shanghai are making claims to join the ranks of Fashion's World Cities. In chapters ranging from Los Angeles to Moscow and Dakar to Mumbai, Fashion's World Cities explores the relationship between major metropolises and the production, consumption and mythologizing of fashion.

The first book to explore fashion's distinctive relationships with 'world cities' such as Paris, New York, London, Tokyo and Milan.

Part One: Fashion's World Cities: urban modernity and urban orders * From Paris to Shanghai: the changing geographies of fashion's world cities--David Gilbert, Royal Holloway, University of London * Urbane Fashion: Fashionability and the city--Elizabeth Wilson, University of the Arts, London * Part Two: Fashion's World Cities: styles and representations * Paris, Capitale de la Mode: Representing the fashion city in the media--Agnes Rocamora, London College of Fashion * Placing Tokyo on the Fashion Map: From catwalk to streetstyle--Yuniya Kawamura, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York * Curating the Fashion City: New York style at the VA--Sonnet Stanfill, Victoria and Albert Museum, London * Creating the Fashion City on Film 1953-1961--Pamela Church Gibson, London College of Fashion * Part Three: Fashion's World Cities: refabricating the urban order * Milan, the city of pret porter: From Italian style to 'Made in Milan'--Simona Segre Reinach, Fashion Studies, IULM University, Milan * How New Yorkl³C