Parisian Fashion: Cultural History

Is Paris still the world capital of fashion? The famous fashion historian, director of the Museum of the Fashion Technology in New York Valerie Steal, answers this question in his book. The author brilliantly solves the problem that he sets himself: to show the evolution of the Parisian style. It is the style that gives Paris uniqueness, making it a place where the embodiment of "all the achievements of civilization, from avant -garde art to elegant fashion, gained. The private life of Parisians, the novels of Balzac and Proust, theatrical stage, the connection of fashion trends and historical eras are deployed into a fascinating narrative, covering several centuries.
The study of the history of the Parisian fashion goes far beyond the scope of the fashionable conversation "and becomes a thought about the global processes of European and world culture of the XVIII-XXI centuries