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Abstract
Montreal is à la mode. A fashionable city in its own right, it also boasts fashion schools, an industry packed with local designers and manufacturers, and a dynamic scene that exhibits local and international collections. With its vibrant cultural life and affordable cost of living, designers and artists flock from all over to be a part of Montreal’s hip fashion community. Montréal Chic is the first book to document this scene and how it connects with the city’s design, film, music and cultural history. Katrina Sark and Sara Danièle Bélanger-Michaud are intimately acquainted with Montreal and use their first-hand knowledge of the city’s fashion to explore urban culture, music, institutions, scenes and subcultures, along the way uncovering many untold stories of Montreal’s fashion scene.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Half Title | i | ||
| Title | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Dedication | v | ||
| Contents | vii | ||
| List of Illustrations | ix | ||
| Acknowledgements | xv | ||
| Introduction: Locating Montréal Chic | 1 | ||
| Methodology | 5 | ||
| A Locational Approach to Fashion | 6 | ||
| Canadian Fashion Scholarship | 8 | ||
| Part 1: History | 17 | ||
| Chapter 1: A Locational History of Fashion in Montréal | 19 | ||
| Chapter 2: Montréal Symbols | 39 | ||
| The Montréal Canadians: From the Great Darkness to the Quiet Revolution | 43 | ||
| Sainte-Flanelle | 47 | ||
| Expo 67 | 51 | ||
| Expo Legacy | 60 | ||
| Printemps érable and the Red Square | 66 | ||
| Spectacle and Performativity | 68 | ||
| Part 2: Spectacles | 77 | ||
| Chapter 3: Museum Chic | 79 | ||
| Musée McCord | 81 | ||
| Musée du Costume et du Textile du Québec | 90 | ||
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal | 97 | ||
| Chapter 4: Music Chic | 107 | ||
| Locating Montréal’s Music Scenes | 110 | ||
| The Contemporary Music Scene and Its Styles | 114 | ||
| Chapter 5: Film Chic | 133 | ||
| Locating Fashion in Montréal Films | 135 | ||
| Xavier Dolan | 139 | ||
| Les amours imaginaires | 141 | ||
| Laurence Anyways | 146 | ||
| Mommy | 148 | ||
| Dress Code: Colour Block | 151 | ||
| Part 3: Innovation | 157 | ||
| Chapter 6: Montréal’s Fashion Economy | 159 | ||
| Fashion Cities, Fashion Scenes, Fashion Economies, and Fashion Culture | 162 | ||
| The 2003 Montréal Mode Scandal and Its Aftermath | 165 | ||
| Montréal Designers: Marie Saint Pierre | 169 | ||
| Helmer | 171 | ||
| Denis Gagnon | 175 | ||
| RAD | 185 | ||
| Fashion Organizations in Montréal | 188 | ||
| Fashion Organizations in Vienna | 192 | ||
| Fashion Organizations in Berlin | 197 | ||
| City Branding, Creativity, and Fashion | 202 | ||
| Chapter 7: Innovation, Design, and Technology | 213 | ||
| Fashion and Technology | 216 | ||
| Hexagram | 216 | ||
| XS Labs | 222 | ||
| Techno-Espace, Collège Lasalle | 230 | ||
| Vestechpro, Cégep Marie-Victorin | 231 | ||
| Hexoskin | 232 | ||
| Conclusion | 237 | ||
| Bibliography | 243 | ||
| Filmography | 257 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |