Selling culture: Bloomingdale's Diana Vreeland, and the new aristocracy of taste in Reagan's America.

The Nation | November 1, 1986| | Copyright

SELLING CULTURE:

Bloomingdale's, Diana Vreeland, and the New Aristocracy of Taste in Reagan's America.

By Debora Silverman. Pantheon. 175 pp. $17.95.

Selling Culture is a bare-knuckled analysis of the ways people with money--in this instance, the haute counture crowd--manipulate culture to entrench and advance their own privileges. Fashion designers rig themselves out as captains of industry and, together with retail magnates and members of the social register, concoct cultural experiences to bring home the gravy.

Silverman views the ...

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