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Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners shaped global style

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By (author): Bethan Bide Lucie Whitmore

Discover the extraordinary stories of the Jewish people who designed, made and sold fashion in twentieth-century London, revealing their vital role in making it an iconic fashion city. While Jewish people have long been associated with making clothes, the full extent of the contributions they made to Londons growing reputation as a global fashion capital and the democratisation of fashion through the development of ready-to-wear clothes in the twentieth century have been widely forgotten. Spanning all sectors of the fashion industry from homeworking to haute couture the book draws stories from generations of Jewish Londoners and is richly illustrated with images from across the city and the Museum of Londons collections. Fashion City takes you on a journey across London, from the busy clothing factories of the East End to the swinging boutiques of Carnaby Street and the manicured squares of Mayfair. Along the way it introduces you to the intriguing stories of the key figures behind London fashion, such as Frederick Starke, a boy from the East End whose ability to tell a creative story changed the way the world saw British ready-to-wear fashion; Otto Lucas, a gay Jewish German hat maker who became the most financially successful milliner in the world; Mr Fish, the rule-defying tailor who dressed Mick Jagger and Muhammed Ali; and Netty Spiegel, who escaped the Nazis on the Kindertransport and became a London wedding dress designer of choice under her Neymar label. Bringing together a wealth of new research and presenting a novel perspective of London fashion, this book gives a voice to the citys overlooked and often forgotten Jewish fashion makers. See more
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  • Publication Date: 12 Oct 2023
  • Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781781301241

About Bethan BideLucie Whitmore

Bethan Bide is a design historian and the academic advisor to Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners shaped global style. She is Lecturer in Design and Cultural Theory at the University of Leeds and Director of the Pasold Research Fund. Bethan previously worked as a producer of comedy programmes for BBC Radio 4. Lucie Whitmore is Fashion Curator at the Museum of London and is the lead curator of Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners shaped global style. Lucie has a PhD in First World War fashion from the University of Glasgow. She has published on the subjects of First World War mourning dress and austerity fashion.

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