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Back in Fashion Western Fashion from the Middle Ages to the Present
ISBN: HB: 9780300218848, Yale University Press, April 2020
288 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 240 colour and black&white illus.
This engaging volume tells the history of Western fashion, exploring how and why it has influenced people's attitudes, actions, and beliefs since the Middle Ages. "Back in Fashion" focuses on themes specific to particular periods – such as the signif...
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Age of Undress Art, Fashion, and the Classical Ideal in the 1790s
ISBN: HB: 9780300241204, Yale University Press, March 2020
216 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 180 colour illus.
"The Age of Undress" explores the emergence and meaning of neoclassical dress in the 1790s, tracing its evolution from Naples to London and Paris over the course of a single decade. The neoclassical style of clothing – often referred to as robe a la...
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Clothing Art The Visual Culture of Fashion 1600-1914
ISBN: HB: 9780300119077, Yale University Press, January 2017
304 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 170 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.
An entirely new way of looking at the history of fashion through the eyes of artists There have always been important links between art and clothing. Artists have documented the ever-evolving trends in fashion, popularized certain styles of dress, an...
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£55,00
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Style of Her Own
ISBN: HB: 9788416248483, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, March 2016
256 pp., 28.5x21 cm, illus.
Louise Dahl-Wolfe transformed and modernized the look of fashion magazines in the thirties, forties and fifties, the period during which she was active, and hence played a significant role in providing the world of fashion with a new image. Similarly...
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High Style Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: PB: 9780300212310, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2015
256 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 355 colour illus.
"High Style is filled with fashion inspiration and information...Nearly every page...includes a captivating photo of one of the collection's lavish garments or accessories" – Threads Published for the first time in paperback, this lavishly illustrate...
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Empire's New Clothes A History of the Russian Fashion Industry (1700-1917)
ISBN: HB: 9780300141559, Yale University Press, March 2009
256 pp., 27.6x22.6 cm, 50 colour illus., 70 black&white illus.
In 1701, Tsar Peter the Great decreed that all residents of Moscow must abandon their traditional dress and wear European fashion. Those who produced or sold Russian clothing would face "dreadful punishment". Peter's dress decree, part of his drive t...
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