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Fashion Odyssey

Suggested Readings 

A Growing List of Sources on the History of Fashion,

Haute Couture & Shopping in France

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Andrew â€‹Bolton, Jan G. Reeder, Jessica Regan, Amanda Garfinkel, Theodore Martin, Michael Cunningham, and Nicholas A. Cope. About Time: Fashion & Duration. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020.

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Gerda Buxbaum, Icons of Fashion: The 20th Century. Munich: Prestel Pub, 2005.

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April Calahan, Karen T. Cannell, and Anna Sui. Fashion Plates: 150 Years of Style. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.

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Nancy Deihl, The Hidden History of American Fashion: Rediscovering 20th-Century Women Designers. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

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Aruna ​D'Souza, and Tom McDonough. The Invisible Flaneuse?: Gender, Public Space, and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008.

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Lauren ​Elkin, Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.

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Fashion: A History from the 18th to the 20th Century : the Collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute. Köln: TASCHEN Bibliotheca Universalis, 2015.

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Jérôme Gautier, Chanel: The Vocabulary of Style. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.

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Gloria Groom, Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity. Chicago, IL: Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.

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Simon Kelly, Esther Bell, et al. Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade. San Francisco, CA : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco-Legion of Honor, 2017.

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Betty ​Kirke and Issei Miyake. Madeleine Vionnet. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2012.

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Alice Mackrell, Art and Fashion. London: Batsford, 2005.

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Dean ​Merceron, et al., Lanvin. New York: Rizzoli, 2016.

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Parsons, Deborah L. Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City, and Modernity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Nancy J. Troy, Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion. Cambridge, Mass. London: MIT, 2004.

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Hal â€‹Vaughan, Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War. New York: Vintage Books, 2012.

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Emile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise, London: Oxford University Press, 2008.

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To be continued... 

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Lauren Jimerson, historienne de l’art & guide-conférencière, Paris, France


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