This chapter scrutinizes major cultural and production changes that occurred in the fashion system after the Second World War up to today (2021) and the main actors involved into these changes. The first thirty years are about the entry of new players – from Europe, especially with the creation of the new Italian prêt à porter, and from the USA - into a system still dominated by Paris fashion. The rise of Japanese fashion in the 1980s started both the fading of a prevailing Western-Eurocentric system and the rise of radical and experimental fashion
Couture, Prêt à porter, and Fast Fashion since 1945 / Simona Maria Segre Reinach. - STAMPA. - II:(2023), pp. 1334-1362.
Couture, Prêt à porter, and Fast Fashion since 1945
Simona Maria Segre Reinach
2023
Abstract
This chapter scrutinizes major cultural and production changes that occurred in the fashion system after the Second World War up to today (2021) and the main actors involved into these changes. The first thirty years are about the entry of new players – from Europe, especially with the creation of the new Italian prêt à porter, and from the USA - into a system still dominated by Paris fashion. The rise of Japanese fashion in the 1980s started both the fading of a prevailing Western-Eurocentric system and the rise of radical and experimental fashionI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
