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The Women of 'Little Paris' - Sonia-Doris Andras

The Women of 'Little Paris'

Fashion in Interwar Bucharest
Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
2026
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-29449-3 (ISBN)
CHF 49,95 inkl. MwSt
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Combining archival research with personal archaeology, this interdisciplinary work explores Romania’s reinvention as a modern state through the lens of its fashion.
Filling a gap in Eastern European fashion studies, this book presents middle-class women consuming fashion in the symbolic ‘Little Paris’ of interwar Bucharest, and examines how their material and cultural means supported the city’s modernisation.

Combining archival research with personal archaeology, this interdisciplinary work explores Romania’s reinvention as a modern state, focusing on middle-class women as they lived their lives - walking through the streets, at lavish events, at cafes and clubs, shopping, and working. Analysing largely unseen, unused written and visual texts, The Women of 'Little Paris' encourages exploration of new avenues for research, uniting scholars of Romanian culture, history and fashion and guiding readers through a forgotten, little explored world and, in so doing, adds to our understanding and knowledge of the global image of interwar fashion cultures and the emerging field of Romanian fashion studies.

Sonia-Doris Andras is a recipient of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Seal of Excellence. She is currently Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Pisa, Italy. She has a PhD from London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK.

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Mapping the interwar World
Inventing Greater Romania
Fashioning the Romanian Paradox

3. Interwar Metropolitan and Urban Cultures
Women, Life, Fashion and Industry in the City
‘Little Paris’: A National Rebirth Project

4. From the Modern Girl to the New Woman
Gender Dynamics
Crafting the ‘New Romanian Woman’

5. Authors and Characters: Women in Literature
Fictional Women, Real Bucharests
Diaries, Memoirs, Biographies

6. From Subjects to Creators: Women Imagined in the Arts
Portraying Fashion
Performing Fashion

7. Transition to New Visual Forms: Film, Photography
Fashioning the Silver Screen
“Pictured with Nose Up, like Moms Wanted”

8. Conclusion

Bibliography
Appendix
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 25.6.2026
Reihe/Serie Dress Cultures
Zusatzinfo 95 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-350-29449-7 / 1350294497
ISBN-13 978-1-350-29449-3 / 9781350294493
Zustand Neuware
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