The Bon Marché

The Bon Marché Michael Miller’s book, The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869-1920, is an expansive and interesting look back on a era of Parisian history that is best represented by its then-current trend and social innovation, the department store. The book gives a fascinating account of the store from its beginning to eventual common place status in 1914. The book gives an insight on the factors in which the store saw success, such as the management, the labor, and new

A woman’s heaven on Earth became the department store in 1838 in Paris. The department store became a haven where women of the wealthy middle class and the Bourgeois could spend their free time there and feel safe, much like they did at church. It also became an expansion of a woman’s sphere in both her work life and in public. But since the department store was first erected, it begs the burning question: why would the women of Paris feel safe in the department stores? Why would the lower middle-class

Power and Manipulation in The Ladies Paradise As the world has grown throughout the centuries, females have generally been under the domination of males. This remained culturally entrenched until the late nineteenth century, when women began to appear in public more often and also began to join alongside men in the work force. In the network of employees and employers in the emerging institution of the Parisian department store, men and women depended on each other for survival in the workplace

How Desire is constructed within the spaces of consumption and the developments of modern consumerism. Desire has helped build and form what we know today as the modern department store. The idea of wanting something you don’t already have has continually been a driving factor of modern consumerism. Many aspects have influenced consumerism and desire; visual displays within the large windows of department stores have constructed the way in which we desire and consume goods. A window display works

‘Shopping is a trivial activity practiced by self-centered individuals’ ‘The first and key assertion related to the notion of the changing nature of a contemporary shopping experience concerns the idea that shopping is increasingly a leisure activity and not simply a matter of mundane necessity or utility.’(Shields, 1992) Indulging in preconceived notions, it is readily agreed that the turn of the nineteenth century marked a drastic change in the shopping patterns experienced all over the globe

Write your name here Surname Other names Edexcel International GCSE Centre Number Candidate Number French Paper 2: Reading and Writing Thursday 17 May 2012 – Morning Time: 1 hour 30 minutes You do not need any other materials. Paper Reference 4FR0/02 Total Marks Instructions Use black ink or ball-point pen. Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name, centre number and candidate number. Answer all questions. Answer the questions in the spaces provided – there

Je suis élève de Marshalls Park School - I am a pupil at Marshalls Park School Je dois porter un uniforme scolaire - I have to wear school uniform L 'uniforme est obligatoire dans notre école - uniform is compulsory in our school Les filles doivent mettre une jupe grise, une veste noire, une cravate bleue rayée de rouge, une chemise blanche et des chaussures noires - the girls have to wear a grey skirt, a black blazer a blue and red striped tie, a white shirt and black shoes Les garçons doivent mettre

Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management Emerald Article: Fast fashion: a financial snapshot S.G. Hayes, Nicola Jones Article information: To cite this document: S.G. Hayes, Nicola Jones, (2006),"Fast fashion: a financial snapshot", Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, Vol. 10 Iss: 3 pp. 282 - 300 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13612020610679277 Downloaded on: 07-08-2012 References: This document contains references to 40 other documents To copy this document:

Blinds To Go (BTG) is a family owned and private held company from Montreal, CN. BTG is a made-to-order window coverings business has approximately 120 retail locations in Ontario, Quebec, and eight northeastern United States, and two manufacturing plant; one in New Jersey and one in Montreal. The company has annual revenues of over $100 million dollars and looks to expand itself even further into the AWC market, which is a $2 billion dollar market and growing. David Shiller started a business

In her thought-provoking column “The Privilege of the Nonnative Speaker”, Claire Kramsch, an authority on foreign language acquisition, seeks to delegitimize the pedestal of the native speaker by shedding light on the numerous gratifications non-natives enjoy, as well as the immense diversity they offer to language acquisition. Kramsch asserts that language should be regarded as standardized, rather than “a social and cultural practice” from which non-natives are isolated, and that “learners construct