List of Figures
Introduction: Inserting Fashion into Space
John Potvin
Part I: Picturing Fashion/Fashionable Pictures
1. Tracking Fashions: Risking It All at the Hippodrome de Longchamp
Heidi Brevik-Zender
2. Framing the Victorians: Photography, Fashion and Identity
Margaret Denny
3. On the Golden Stairs: The Spectacle of the Victorian Woman in White
Anne Anderson
4. Maurice de Rothschild’s "Remembrances of Things Past": Costume Obsession and Decadence, the Collection of a Belle Époque Dandy
Christopher Bedford
Part II: Cultures of Display
5. Fashion’s Chameleons: Camouflage, "Conspicuousness" and Gendered Display during WWI
Allison Matthews David
6. Making the Princeton Man: Collegiate Clothing and Campus Culture, 1900-1920
Deidre Clemente
7. Elegance and Spectacle in Berlin: The Gerson Fashion Store and the Rise of the Modern Fashion Show
Mila Ganeva
8. The City Boutique: Milan and the Spaces of Fashion
Francesca Muscau
9. Libertine Acts: Fashion and Furniture
Peter McNeil
Part III: Window Dressing and Boutique Culture
10. Dressing Rooms: Women, Fashion and the Department Store
Louisa Iarocci
11. The Logic of the Mannequin: Shop Windows and the Realist Novel
Vanessa Osborne
12. Allure of the Silent Beauties: Mannequins and Display in America, 1935-1970
Emily Klug
13. "A House that is Made of Hats": The Lilly Daché Building 1937–1968
Rebecca Jumper Matheson
14. From "Paradise" to Cyberspace: The Revival of the Bourgeois Marketplace
Elyssa Dimant
15. Armani/Architecture: The Timelessness and Textures of Space
John Potvin
Notes on Contributors
Index
Biography
John Potvin is Assistant Professor of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century European Art. He is the author of Boundaries and Intimacy: Material and Visual Cultures Beyond Male Bonding, 1880-1914 (Ashgate, December 2007) and co-editor of the forthcoming Collecting Subjects in Britain, 1700-1914: The Visual Meanings and Pleasures of Material Culture (Ashgate).
'Full of rich and rigourous new research, it will be of interest tomany historians, with its valuable insights on the spatially located visuality, performance and display of fashion' - The Journal of Design History.
