House of fashion

About this book

"Taking us from the early years of haute couture to the luxury fashion flagship stores of the present day, House of Fashion provides a full historical account of the interplay between fashion and the modern interior. Berry explores how the salon, the atelier, and the boutique have allowed fashion to move beyond the aesthetics of dress, and demonstrates how these spaces continue to function as sites for performing modern, gendered identities for designers and their clientele alike. In doing so, it traces how designers including Poiret, Vionnet, Chanel, Schiaparelli, and Dior used commercial spaces and domestic interiors to enhance their credentials as connoisseurs of taste and style. Drawing on rich visual sources, this interdisciplinary study sets out fashion's links with key figures in architecture and design, including Robert Mallet-Stevens, Eileen Gray, and Jean-Michel Frank. House of Fashion establishes the fashion interior as central to our understanding of intersections between dress, architecture, and style"--Page [4] of cover.