Sara Danièle Bélanger-Michaud & Katrina Sark 
Montréal Chic [EPUB ebook] 
A Locational History of Montréal Fashion

Montréal 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 Montréal’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. Scholars Katrina Sark and Sara Danièle Bélanger-Michaud are intimately acquainted with Montréal and use their firsthand knowledge of the city’s fashion to explore urban culture, music, institutions, scenes and subcultures, along the way uncovering many untold stories of Montréal’s fashion scene.

Table of Content

Introduction

Locating Montreal Chic


 


Chapter 1

A Locational History of Fashion in Montréal


 


Chapter 2

Montréal Symbols


 


Chapter 3

Museum Chic


 


Chapter 4

Music Chic


 


Chapter 5

Film Chic


 


Chapter 6

Montréal’s Fashion Economy


 


Chapter 7

Innovation, Design, and Technology

About the author

 Susan Ingram is associate professor of humanities at York University.