London Couture and the Making of a Fashion Centre Jones Michelle
How design collaboration, networks, and narratives contributed to the establishment of a recognized English couture industry in the 1930s and 1940s.In the 1930s and 1940s, English fashion houses,…
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How design collaboration, networks, and narratives contributed to the establishment of a recognized English couture industry in the 1930s and 1940s.In the 1930s and 1940s, English fashion houses, spurred by economic and wartime crises, put London on the map as a major fashion city. In this book, Michelle Jones examines the creation of a London-based couture industry during these years, exploring how designer collaboration and the construction of specific networks and narratives supported and shaped the English fashion economy. Haute couture--the practice of creative made-to-measure womenswear--was widely regarded as inherently French. Jones shows how an English version emerged during a period of economic turbulence, when a group of designers banded together in a collective effort to shift power within the international fashion system.Jones considers the establishment of
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