Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT in New York City, where she has curated more than 25 exhibitions in the past 20 years, including ‘The Corset: Fashioning the Body’, ‘Gothic: Dark Glamour’, ‘A Queer History of Fashion’, and ‘Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color’. As author, curator, editor, and public intellectual, Valerie Steele has been instrumental in creating the modern field of fashion studies and in raising awareness of the cultural significance of fashion.

Insightful ... One of the fundamental strengths of this publication is its multifaceted approach to Paris ... A valuable resource for students and academics of fashion and social history.

• Introduction: Valerie SteeleChapter 1: Paris, "Capital of Fashion"Valerie SteeleChapter 2: Paris, London, Shanghai: Touring the Fashion ImaginaryChristopher BrewardChapter 3: Paris, New York, London, Milan ... Paris and a world order of fashion capitalsDavid GilbertChapter 4: Paris and A Tale of Italian CitiesGrazia D’AnnunzioChapter 5: Between Beijing and Shanghai: fashion in the Party stateAntonia FinnaneChapter 6: The Cultural Value of Parisian CoutureSophie KurkdjianChapter 7: #parisienne: Social Media Stratification in Visions of Parisian WomenAgnès RocamoraNotes Image ListBibliographyNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIndex

Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT in New York City, where she has curated more than 25 exhibitions in the past 20 years, including ‘The Corset: Fashioning the Body’, ‘Gothic: Dark Glamour’, ‘A Queer History of Fashion’, and ‘Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color’. As author, curator, editor, and public intellectual, Valerie Steele has been instrumental in creating the modern field of fashion studies and in raising awareness of the cultural significance of fashion.

Insightful ... One of the fundamental strengths of this publication is its multifaceted approach to Paris ... A valuable resource for students and academics of fashion and social history.

• Introduction: Valerie SteeleChapter 1: Paris, "Capital of Fashion"Valerie SteeleChapter 2: Paris, London, Shanghai: Touring the Fashion ImaginaryChristopher BrewardChapter 3: Paris, New York, London, Milan ... Paris and a world order of fashion capitalsDavid GilbertChapter 4: Paris and A Tale of Italian CitiesGrazia D’AnnunzioChapter 5: Between Beijing and Shanghai: fashion in the Party stateAntonia FinnaneChapter 6: The Cultural Value of Parisian CoutureSophie KurkdjianChapter 7: #parisienne: Social Media Stratification in Visions of Parisian WomenAgnès RocamoraNotes Image ListBibliographyNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIndex

Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT in New York City, where she has curated more than 25 exhibitions in the past 20 years, including ‘The Corset: Fashioning the Body’, ‘Gothic: Dark Glamour’, ‘A Queer History of Fashion’, and ‘Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color’. As author, curator, editor, and public intellectual, Valerie Steele has been instrumental in creating the modern field of fashion studies and in raising awareness of the cultural significance of fashion.

Insightful ... One of the fundamental strengths of this publication is its multifaceted approach to Paris ... A valuable resource for students and academics of fashion and social history.

• Introduction: Valerie SteeleChapter 1: Paris, "Capital of Fashion"Valerie SteeleChapter 2: Paris, London, Shanghai: Touring the Fashion ImaginaryChristopher BrewardChapter 3: Paris, New York, London, Milan ... Paris and a world order of fashion capitalsDavid GilbertChapter 4: Paris and A Tale of Italian CitiesGrazia D’AnnunzioChapter 5: Between Beijing and Shanghai: fashion in the Party stateAntonia FinnaneChapter 6: The Cultural Value of Parisian CoutureSophie KurkdjianChapter 7: #parisienne: Social Media Stratification in Visions of Parisian WomenAgnès RocamoraNotes Image ListBibliographyNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIndex