Fashion City

How Jewish Londoners shaped global style

Bethan Bide, Lucie Whitmore (Curator, Fashion, Museum of London)

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English

Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
03 April 2024

20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Social & cultural history; Fashion & society; Jewish studies; Fashion & beauty industries

Discover the extraordinary stories of the Jewish people who designed, made and sold fashion in twentieth-century London, revealing their vital role in making it an iconic fashion city.

While Jewish people have long been associated with making clothes, the full extent of the contributions they made to London’s growing reputation as a global fashion capital and the democratisation of fashion through the development of ready-to-wear clothes in the twentieth century have been widely forgotten. Spanning all sectors of the fashion industry – from homeworking to haute couture – the book draws stories from generations of Jewish Londoners and is richly illustrated with images from across the city and the Museum of London’s collections.

Fashion City takes you on a journey across London, from the busy clothing factories of the East End to the swinging boutiques of Carnaby Street and the manicured squares of Mayfair. Along the way it introduces you to the intriguing stories of the key figures behind London fashion, such as Frederick Starke, a boy from the East End whose ability to tell a creative story changed the way the world saw British ready-to-wear fashion; Otto Lucas, a gay Jewish German hat maker who became the most financially successful milliner in the world; Mr Fish, the rule-defying tailor who dressed Mick Jagger and Muhammed Ali; and Netty Spiegel, who escaped the Nazis on the Kindertransport and became a London wedding dress designer of choice under her ‘Neymar’ label.

Bringing together a wealth of new research and presenting a novel perspective of London fashion, this book gives a voice to the city’s overlooked and often forgotten Jewish fashion makers.

By: Bethan Bide, Lucie Whitmore (Curator, Fashion, Museum of London)
Imprint: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 25mm, Width: 25mm,
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781781301241
ISBN 10: 1781301247
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 03 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword by David Sassoon - Prelude: Neymar | Netty Spiegel 1. Introductions - Key Figures: J. H. Fisher | Malka and Juda Fiszer 2. Making Clothes in the East End - Key Figures: Koupy | Charles Kuperstein 3. High-street Chains and the Wholesale Revolution - Key Figures: Otto Lucas Ltd | The Milliner Millionaire 4. Couture and Bespoke Dressmaking - Key Figures: Mr Fish | Michael Fish and Friends 5. Menswear Boutiques and Carnaby Street - Key Figures: Moss Bros | Generations of Moss Index Picture credits

Bethan Bide is a design historian and the academic advisor to Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners shaped global style. She is Lecturer in Design and Cultural Theory at the University of Leeds and Director of the Pasold Research Fund. Bethan previously worked as a producer of comedy programmes for BBC Radio 4. Lucie Whitmore is Fashion Curator at the Museum of London and is the lead curator of Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners shaped global style. Lucie has a PhD in First World War fashion from the University of Glasgow. She has published on the subjects of First World War mourning dress and austerity fashion.