Fashion is one of the defining features of human evolution and culture. Spanning the first civilizations to today’s most recent trends, this book analyzes the importance and meaning of this intriguing area of human behavior. With an in-depth approach...

In 1960, Their Majesties King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit of Thailand embarked on a historic, six-month-long state visit to 15 Western nations. Her Majesty, the first queen of Thailand to visit the West since the 1930s, anticipated that her...

A sumptuously illustrated, encyclopedic chronicle of fashion and its trends, from the 18th to the early 20th century Prior to the invention of photography, European and American magazines used colorful prints to depict the latest fashion trends. Thes...

The 1960s, known as the "Swinging Sixties", are recognised as a landmark decade both by those who lived through them and those who look back in awe at the revolutionary changes in fashion, style and sexual freedom. Continuing interest and appreciat...

This book aims to help emerging designers and fashion professionals cut down the time required to produce a collection. It offers every type of silhouette and pse of women, men and children, so that designers are able to produce sketches that are fai...

This book presents an extraordinary survey of images focusing on collars and necklines that have recently made fashion history and mark the latest fashions and trends. It is an indispensable visual compendium that will kindle the creativity of design...

The complex and often ambiguous relationship between the hand crafted and the machine made is examined in this intriguing look at the ever-changing world of fashion and taste. "Manus Machina" traces styles of dress from one-of-a-kind works and haute...

What's the most important garment in a woman's closet? More often than not, the answer is "the little black dress". For decades, fashion magazines have touted the LBD as the perfect solution to almost every fashion crisis. Dressed up or down, with fl...

Dress plays a crucial role in fairy tales, signaling the status, wealth, or vanity of particular characters, and symbolizing their transformation. Fairy tales often provide little information beyond what is necessary to a plot, but clothing and acces...

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...