In this comprehensive book, Alan Morris examines the French preoccupation with la mode retro, the renewal of interest in, and re-evaluation of, the Nazi occupation of France.
La mode retro - new myths for old; the heritage 1940-1969; the mechanisms of demythification; why a mode retro?; first among orphans; Pascal Jardin, Marie Chaix and Evelyne Le Garrec; Patrick Modiano.