Fashion's World Cities

David Gilbert is Professor of Geography at Royal Holloway University, London. Christopher Breward is Deputy Head of Research at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

• Part One: Fashion's World Cities: urban modernity and urban orders * From Paris to Shanghai: the changing geographies of fashion's world cities David Gilbert, Royal Holloway, University of London * Urbane Fashion: Fashionability and the city Elizabeth Wilson, University of the Arts, London Part Two: Fashion's World Cities: styles and representations * Paris, Capitale de la Mode: Representing the fashion city in the media Agnes Rocamora, London College of Fashion * Placing Tokyo on the Fashion Map: From catwalk to streetstyle Yuniya Kawamura, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York * Curating the Fashion City: New York style at the VA Sonnet Stanfill, Victoria and Albert Museum, London * Creating the Fashion City on Film 1953-1961 Pamela Church Gibson, London College of Fashion Part Three: Fashion's World Cities: refabricating the urban order * Milan, the city of pret porter: From Italian style to 'Made in Milan' Simona Segre Reinach, Fashion Studies, IULM University, Milan * How New York Stole Modern Fashion Norma Rantisi, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec * Mapping Moscow Fashion: Spaces and spectacles of consumption Olga Vainshtein, Russian State University for the Humanities * Shaping the Shopping City: Master plans and pipe dreams in London's West End 1945-1979 Bronwen Edwards Royal Holloway, University of London Part Four: Fashion's World Cities: Transnational Networks * La Mode Dakaroise: Elegance, transnationalism and an African fashion capital Hudita Nura Mustafa, Sarah Lawrence College (NY) * Far Out and Way In: London as fashion cosmopolis, 1945-1979 Sonia Ashmore, London College of Fashion * Fabrications of India: Transnational networks and the making of 'East/West' fashion Claire Dwyer, University College London * Sewing Machines and Dream Machines: Los Angeles and San Francisco as global fashion cities Susan Kaiser Leslie W. Rabine, University of California, Davis