The Return (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Hisham Matar

The Return (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Hisham Matar

In 1939, fashion became an economic and symbolic sphere of great importance in France. Invasive textile legislation, rationing and threats from German and American couturiers were pushing the design and trade of Parisian style to its limits. It is widely accepted that French fashion was severely curtailed as a result, isolated from former foreign clients and deposed of its crown as global queen of fashion. This pioneering book offers a different story. Arguing that Paris retained its hold on the international haute couture industry right throughout WI, eminent dress historians and curators come together to show that, amid political, economic and cultural traumas, Paris fashion remained very much alive under the Nazi occupation - and on an international level.

Bringing exciting perspectives to challenge a familiar story and introducing new overseas trade links out of occupied France, this book takes us from the salons of renowned couturiers such as Edward Molyneux and Robert Piguet, French Vogue and Le Jardin des Modes and luxury Lyon silk factories, to Rio de Janeiro, Denmark and Switzerland, and the great American department stores of New York. Also comparing extravagant Paris occupation styles to austerity fashions of the UK and USA, parallel industrial and design developments highlight the unresolvable tension between luxury fashion and the everyday realities of wartime life. Showing that Paris strove to maintain world dominance as leader of couture through fashion journalism, photography and exported fashion forecasting, Paris Fashion in World War Two makes a significant contribution to the cultural history of fashion.

Hisham Matar nació en 1970 en Nueva York. De padres libios, se crió en Trípoli y en El Cairo y ha pasado la mayor parte de su vida adulta en Inglaterra. Su primera novela, Solo en el mundo (Salamandra, 2007), se tradujo a veintinueve idiomas y fue finalista del premio Man Booker, del Guardian First Book Award y del National Book Critics Circle Award en Estados Unidos. Ganó seis importantes premios literarios internacionales, entre ellos el Commonwealth Writers ́ Prize, el premio Ondaatje de la Royal Society of Literature, el premio Flaiano y el Gregor von Rezzori. Similar éxito tuvo su segunda novela, Historia de una desaparición (Salamandra, 2012). En la actualidad, Matar vive entre Londres y Nueva York.

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ISBN 13	9780812994827
ISBN 10	0812994825
Title	The Return (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Author	Hisham Matar
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House
Year published	2016-07-05
Number of pages	256
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