Haussmann and the House of Fashion
OASE Journal
Contributor*
October, 2019
OASE Journal
Contributor*
October, 2019
From the House of Worth to the Houses of Dior and Chanel, the notion of the ‘house’ in fashion—both physically and symbolically—can be described as a metabolic system that builds upon Haussmann’s plan for Paris to transcend the unit of the house into a constituent of an extensive urban, social and economic fabric. This contribution to OASE #104 explores the early twentieth-century Parisian domestic-cum-fashion house, a type that has disintegrated today with the decentralisation of the fashion industry supply chain.
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*in OASE #104 The Urban Household of Metabolism. Edited by David Peleman, Bruno Notteboom, Michiel Dehaene. Graphic Design by Karel Martens and Aagje Martens.





