The Golden Age of Couture celebrates a momentous decade in fashion history that began with the launch of Christian Dior's famous New Look in 1947 and ended with

Over the last century there has been a complete transformation of the fashion system. The unitary top-down fashion cycle has been replaced by the pulsations of

“This is an original, gracefully written study of Paris fashion, one that manages to say as much about national character, in a sense, as it does about the ri