Alexis Romano: Prêt-à-Porter, Paris and Women: A Cultural Study of French Readymade Fashion, 1945-68 (Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections) [2022] paperb Condition:New the diffident and much put-upon

the diffident and much put-upon Fanny Price struggling to cope with her emotions in Mansfield Park

spies eye one another and ready their knives - while the people of Myna watch troops gather at its borders

A great fun book with loads of comic episodes that leaves you with a big smile on your face' Goodreads Reviewer

Reinaldo Arenas

'An unsettling

Alexis Romano: Prêt-à-Porter, Paris and Women: A Cultural Study of French Readymade Fashion, 1945-68 (Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections) [2022] paperb Condition:New the diffident and much put-uponIn the first critical history of French ready made fashion, Alexis Romano examines an array of cultural sources, including surviving garments, fashion magazines, film, photography and interviews, to weave together previously disparate historical narratives. The resulting volume Pret a Porter: Paris and Women situates the ready made in wider cultural discourses of art, design, urbanism, technology and international policy. Through a close study of