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-- Valerie Steele, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology Palmer is one of the most brilliant young fashion scholars working today A major contribution to fashion studies. Palmer is one of the most brilliant young fashion scholars working todayA major contribu

-- Valerie Steele, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology Palmer is one of the most brilliant young fashion scholars working today A major contribution to fashion studies. Palmer is one of the most brilliant young fashion scholars working todayA major contribution to fashion studies. -- Valerie Steele, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York

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The 1950s were the golden years of haute couture, captured by iconic images of glamorous models wearing dramatic clothes. The Paris couture houses survived due to the enthusiasm of the North American fashion press and commercial buyers. This gorgeously illustrated book demonstrates why so many of these designs are still in existence and why we are fascinated by them fifty years later.Couture and Commerce investigates how and why postwar couture fashion was important in its own day. Alexandra Palmer traces the European haute couture trade with North America by following actual surviving couture dresses from the design house sketch, through the model used in New York fashion shows and as a template for copies and knock-offs, and finally to the consumer.Couture and Commerce is a remarkable mixture of accessible text, color photographs of the original garments, design house sketches and photographs, retailers’ advertisements, and society page images. Yet the real women who wore these clothes adapted them to suit their own tastes,

. Alexandra Palmer is the Nora E. Vaughan Fashion Costume Curator at the Royal Ontario Museum and adjunct professor of art history at York University

• Title : Couture and Commerce: The Transatlantic Fashion Trade in the 1950s
• Author : Alexandra Palmer
• Rating : 4.79 (904 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-3-2
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 360 Pages
• Asin : 0774808268
• Language : English