Becoming couture

Becoming coutureAuthor: Chiara Faggella ISBN: 9781526155245 Publisher: Manchester University Press Year first published: 01 Jan 2025 Pages: 248 Format: Hardback Becoming couture is the first book to examine the history of the Italian fashion industry during the global transition brought about by the Second World War. It draws on a wide range of primary sources, some of them newly unearthed, to demonstrate that the Italian fashion industry in the Republican era

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