Places and Spaces of Fashion, 1800-2007

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).

• List of Figures Introduction: Inserting Fashion into SpaceJohn Potvin Part I: Picturing Fashion/Fashionable Pictures1. 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 Anderson4. Maurice de Rothschild’s "Remembrances of Things Past": Costume Obsession and Decadence, the Collection of a Belle Époque Dandy Christopher BedfordPart II: Cultures of Display5. Fashion’s Chameleons: Camouflage, "Conspicuousness" and Gendered Display during WWI Allison Matthews David6. Making the Princeton Man: Collegiate Clothing and Campus Culture, 1900-1920 Deidre Clemente7. 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 McNeilPart III: Window Dressing and Boutique Culture10. 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 Klug13. "A House that is Made of Hats": The Lilly Daché Building 1937–1968 Rebecca Jumper Matheson14. From "Paradise" to Cyberspace: The Revival of the Bourgeois Marketplace Elyssa Dimant 15. Armani/Architecture: The Timelessness and Textures of Space John PotvinNotes on ContributorsIndex

'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.