04435cam a2200781 4500 1549569535 TxAuBib 20240831120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250288745 1250288746 B0CQHLY48G Amazon 3186089c-c4c3-4898-a0bc-c03a4098c12c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10346209 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib MacDonell, Nancy. Empresses of Seventh Avenue [Bridges eBook] : World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2024. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1891kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. edna woolman chase. american designers. capital of fashion. influential women. marjorie griswold. american history. cultural history. American fashion. Claire McCardell. eleanor lambert. elizabeth hawes. diana vreeland. harpers bazaar. dorothy shaver. nazi invasion. virginia pope. 20th Century. Michael Kors. True stories. Fashion Week. ralph lauren. calvin klein. Pop Culture. Marc Jacobs. Vanity Fair. carmel snow. Tory Burch. lois long. tom ford. fashion. Modern. Chanel. Paris. Vogue. WWII. NYC. fit. HTML:<p><b>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> MOST ANTICIPATED</b></p> <li><b>In the tradition of <i>The Barbizon</i> and <i>The Girls of Atomic City</i>, fashion historian and journalist Nancy MacDonell chronicles the untold story of how the Nazi invasion of France gave rise to the American fashion industry.</b><br /> <i>Calvin Klein. Ralph Lauren. Donna Karan. Halston. Marc Jacobs. Tom Ford. Michael Kors. Tory Burch.</i> Today, American designers are some of the biggest names in fashion, yet before World War II, they almost always worked anonymously. The industry, then centered on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, had always looked overseas for "inspiration"—a polite phrase for what was often blatant copying—because style, as all the world knew, came from Paris.<br /> But when the Nazis invaded France in 1940, the capital of fashion was cut off from the rest of the world. The story of the chaos and tragedy that followed has been told many times—but how it directly affected American fashion is largely unknown.<br /> Defying the naysayers, New York-based designers, retailers, editors, and photographers met the moment, turning out clothes that were perfectly suited to the American way of life: sophisticated, modern, comfortable, and affordable. By the end of the war, "the American Look" had been firmly established as a fresh, easy elegance that combined function with style. But none of it would have happened without the influence and ingenuity of a small group of women who have largely been lost to history.<br /> <i>Empresses of Seventh Avenue</i> will tell the story of how these extraordinary women put American fashion on the world stage and created the template for modern style—and how the nearly $500 billion American fashion industry, the largest in the world, could not have accrued its power and wealth without their farsightedness and determination.</li>. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. History. Art. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-08-29 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3186089c-c4c3-4898-a0bc-c03a4098c12c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3186089c-c4c3-4898-a0bc-c03a4098c12c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3186089c-c4c3-4898-a0bc-c03a4098c12c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)