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Every epoch can remember and brand with a conform icons and idols of their era. The crinoline-caged Victorian female, a Gibson girl, and a grunge-layered girl of a 1990s all simulate a influences and extremes of their life and times. The start of a 19th century outlines a emergence of a designer, a sartorial change that became a star-studded industry. Fashion: A Visual History charts those points in time when particular styles that began as extravagances of a really abounding permeated by well-dressed multitude until a cut of cloth or choice of appendage tangible fashion. This elegantl- dressed volume asseses a grant of such innovative players as Worth, Chanel, Dior, Saint Laurent, Klein, Westwood, and Gaultier, as good as a effects of stage, sceren, music, dance, and sports celebriries on a ever-changing clarity of fashion. Each widespread focuses on a decisive item--be it bowler shawl or small black dress, stiletto or caftan--or identifies pivotal shifts in conform that simulate excess, liberation, austerity, nostalgia, and technology, displaying it in contemporary images trimming from paintings and illustrated conform plates to cartoons and photographs. Evocative primary quotes finish a story that visually traces a divulgence expansion of conform in Western society.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #1661924 in Books
- Published on: 2012-02-14
- Released on: 2012-02-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
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NJ STEVENSON has worked in a conform attention as a conform author and stylist given 1996. An alumna of a London College of Fashion, she specialized in selected while operative in a industry, afterwards went on to get her MA in Fashion Curation. She now lectures on styling and conform in film during a University of a Arts.
By NJ Stevenson
By NJ Stevenson
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