Paris, capitale de la mode: rayonnement ou brouillard?

The myth of Paris, capital of fashion, attained its apogee during the nineteenth century. Hegemonic, in its message and its effect, this myth obscures a number of players and realities in the field of fashion, from the importance of Turtle Island Indigenous know-how and the labour of enslaved Africans to the beauty and self-fashioning of the poor and working classes in France. Grounded in the decolonial and decentring work of M. Angela Jansen, Sandra Niessen and Rolando Vázquez, this article sheds light on the functioning of this ideology and its marginalized actors by examining its discourse in fashion magazines and literary and artistic production from the July Monarchy to the Third Republic. (in French)