- Publisher
- Laurence King
- Published
- 2012
- Shelf
- fashion: History
- ISBN
- 9781856697989
History
100 Years of Fashion
Cally Blackman
A century of dress in four hundred pages of photographs, decade by decade, street alongside runway.
Why read it
The value is the pairing. A couture look sits next to what people actually wore that year, so you can see how long an idea takes to travel and how much it loses on the way. For anyone building a period reference this is faster and more honest than a runway archive.
Why own it
It is the book you pull down when a brief says sixties or nineties and you need to know what that really looked like rather than what the revival looked like.
Who it is for
Stylists, costume designers and art directors working with period reference.
Opens a search on AbeBooks, a network of independent and antiquarian sellers, which is where a good part of this shelf has to be found, because it is out of print.
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