Fashion's world cities / edited by Christopher Breward and David Gilbert.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-270) and index.

Part I. Urban modernity and urban orders: 1. From Paris to Shanghai: the changing geographies of fashion's world cities / David Gilbert -- 2. Urbane fashion / Elizabeth Wilson -- Part II. Styles and representations: 3. Paris, Capitale de la Mode: representing the fashion city in the media / Agnès Rocamora -- 4. Placing Tokyo on the fashion map: from catwalk to streetstyle / Yuniya Kawamura -- 5. Curating the fashion city: New York style at the V&A / Sonnet Stanfill -- 6. New stars, new fashions and their female audience: cinema, consumption and cities 1953-1966 / Pamela Church Gibson -- Part III. Re-fabricating the urban order: 7. How New York stole modern fashion / Norma Rantisi -- 8. Milan: The city of Prêt-à-Porter in a world of fast fashion / Simona Segre Reinach -- 9. Mapping Moscow fashion: spaces and spectacles of consumption / Olga Vainshtein -- 10. Shaping the shopping city: master plans and pipe dreams in London's West End 1945-1979 / Bronwen Edwards -- Part IV. Fashion cities and transnational networks: 11. La Mode Dakaroise: elegance, transnationalism and an African fashion capital / Hudita Nura Mustafa -- 12. Far out and way in: London as fashion cosmopolis 1945-1979 / Sonia Ashmore -- 13. Fabrications of India: transnational fashion networks / Claire Dwyer -- 14. Sewing machines and dream machines: Los Angeles and San Francisco: the case of the blue jean \ Leslie W. Rabine and Susan Kaiser.