Dressing the city. Paris, Fashion and Media

Monograph of the professor of the London College of Fashion Agnes Rokamora "Dressing the city: Paris, Fashion and Media" is devoted to the analysis of the main ways to represent Paris in the fashion press, which, like numerous paintings, novels and films about the French capital, praises this city, supporting its mythical status, in in particular, as the capital of fashion. Based on publications in newspapers and magazines, the author reveals the processes of constructing a Paris myth and its significance in fashion geography. A separate place in the book is given to the consideration of the cultural types of “Parisians" and "passers-by", as well as the image of the Eiffel Tower, which often appears in the press as a background of fashion-site