Wiener Chic

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A Locational History of Vienna Fashion

By Susan Ingram

Series: Urban Chic

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Wiener Chic explores Vienna's unique fashion landscape, revealing how the city's history and culture have been shaped by style and appearance. Through an examination of architecture, arts festivals, and street fashion, Susan Ingram traces Vienna’s identity as an underappreciated fashion capital, blending urban theory with cultural analysis to offer readers a fresh perspective on the city’s material and aesthetic dimensions.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in fashion, urban theory, and European cultural history, particularly those keen to discover Vienna's distinctive style and its role in shaping the city’s cultural fabric.

Vienna may not be synonymous with fashion like its metropolitan counterparts Paris and Milan, but it is a fashionable city. By focusing on fashion, the author narrates Vienna's history through an interpretation of the material dimensions of Viennese cultural life - from architecture to arts festivals to the urban fabric of street chic.

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Vienna may not be synonymous with fashion like its metropolitan counterparts Paris and Milan, but it is a fashionable city, one that historically has been structured by changing fashions and fashionable appearances. Like the Litfaßsäule in Orson Welles's 1949 urban noir masterpiece The Third Man, into which Harry Lime escapes in order to avoid capture and which hapless visitors today presume are merely surfaces for advertising, there are many overlooked aspects of Vienna's distinct style and attitude.

By focusing on fashion, Wiener Chic narrates Vienna's history through an interpretation of the material dimensions of Viennese cultural life—from architecture to arts festivals to the urban fabric of street chic.

The first book that connects Vienna and fashion with urban theory, Wiener Chic draws on material that is virtually unknown in an English-language context to give readers an insider's vantage point on an underappreciated European fashion capital.

Series: Urban Chic

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Wiener Chic

By Susan Ingram

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"A masterpiece which isn’t afraid to own up to its scholarly rigour. Equally satisfying to the coffee table book skimmer as it will be to the serious student of fashion and history" – Amie Zimmer, Parson’s School of Design magazine

"A truly engaging and well-written look at various aesthetic aspects of Viennese life, offering a foundation for future discussions on fashion and urban spaces" – Arianna Funk, Worn Through

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ISBN: 9781783201846

Publisher: Intellect

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 February 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Intellect Books

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Series edited by Susan Ingram

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 11.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 349g

Pages: 200

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Series: Urban Chic Susan Ingram

About the Author

Susan Ingram is Associate Professor at York University, where she is affiliated with the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies and the Research Group on Translation and Transcultural Contact. Before moving to York, she was a Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong, and she has also taught in Germany and Poland. Publications such as Zarathustra’s Sisters: Women’s Autobiography and the Shaping of Cultural History and a series of co-edited volumes on the mutually constitutive crosscultural constructions of Central Europe and North America reflect her interest in the institutions of European cultural modernity.

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