Fashion and Modernism

Louise Wallenberg is Associate Professor of Fashion Studies and holds a PhD in Cinema Studies. She was the establishing Director of the Centre for Fashion Studies, 2006-2013.Andrea Kollnitz is is Associate Professor of Art History and Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Fashion Studies at Stockholm University.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Louise Wallenberg and Andrea KollnitzPART I: ‘Fashion, Change, Modernism’1.Sven-Olov Wallenstein, ‘Tarde, Simmel and the Logic of Fashion’2.Patrizia Calefato, ‘Italian Futurismo and Fashion’3.Ulrich Lehmann, ‘Modernism v. Feminism: George Sand, Paul Gavarni and Trousers for Women’4.Louise Wallenberg, ‘Ménilmontant: Time, Space and Urbanity’5.Olga Vainshtein, ‘Designing the Future: Constructivist Laboratory of Fashion’PART II: ‘Creators and Creations’6.Caroline Evans, ‘Paris-New York 1925: Jean Patou’s Advertising’7.Alessandra Vaccari, ‘The Slit Skirt: Fashion and Empathy in the Tango Era’8.Andrea Kollnitz, ‘Look at Me! Fashion as Expression and Strategy in Isaac Grünewald’s and Sigrid Hjertén’s Painting and Self–Staging’ 9.Astrid Söderbergh Widding, ‘Mago’s Modernism: Fashion and the Modern from Smiling Summer Night to Hour of the Wolf’BibliographyIndex

Overall, this is an enjoyable book … [W]ill be of interest to general scholars of the modernist period as well as those with a specific interest in dress and fashion history.