Books in the Urban Chic series

Montreal Chic is the first book to document Montreal's fashion scene and its connection to the city's design, film, music and cultural history. Katrina Sark and Sara Daniele Belanger-Michaud use their firsthand knowledge of the city's fashion to explore urban culture, music, institutions, scenes and subcultures, uncovering many untold stories.

Since becoming the capital of reunited Germany, Berlin has had a dose of global money and international style and is now a fashion showplace. Berliner Chic charts the stories of entrepreneurially-savvy manufacturers and cultural workers striving to establish their city as a fashion capital, and being interrupted by politics, ideology and war.

Vienna may not be synonymous with fashion like its metropolitan counterparts Paris and Milan, but it is a fashionable city. By focusing on fashion, the author narrates Vienna's history through an interpretation of the material dimensions of Viennese cultural life - from architecture to arts festivals to the urban fabric of street chic.

A Locational History of Los Angeles Fashion.