Fifty Dresses That Changed the World

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You don't have to be a fashionista or a design aficionado to adore this fascinating look at the power of one dress to change society.


Join the Design Museum, the world's leading museum in contemporary design, on a guided tour of the 50 most important dresses in social history and design.

Filled with pages of beautiful clothes, and the famous faces (and bodies) that put them...

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Overview

You don't have to be a fashionista or a design aficionado to adore this fascinating look at the power of one dress to change society.


Join the Design Museum, the world's leading museum in contemporary design, on a guided tour of the 50 most important dresses in social history and design.

Filled with pages of beautiful clothes, and the famous faces (and bodies) that put them on the world stage -including Wallis Simpson, Jackie Kennedy, Twiggy and Cher and, of course, Princess Di-this fun volume shares fascinating appraisals of what gave the 50 most important garments their iconic status.



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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781840915389
  • Publisher: Octopus Books, Inc.
  • Publication date: 11/1/2009
  • Series: Changed the World Series
  • Pages: 106
  • Sales rank: 215,114
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 8.30 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

London's Design Museum is the world's leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form from furniture to graphics, and architecture to industrial design. Since its opening in 1989 it has worked to place design at the center of contemporary culture.
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  • Posted December 5, 2011

    Disappointed in Content

    From the cover, I expected more classic dresses. However, this is a book that give about a 1/2 page to each dress and designer, most of whom I've never heard of nor seen their dresses. To live up to its title, this book should have been much, much longer and gone into more depth to substantiate exactly why they thought each dress "changed the world". There were few dresses from the film industry which I found an odd thing to leave out of the collection. I'm not fashion unconcious so I expected to recognize more of these dresses. There are so many iconic fashions they should have - and could have included but didn't. I recommend passing on this one.

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  • Posted January 26, 2010

    Never got the book

    Never got the book. Sent an email to ask hat happened to the charge and never got a response from B&N. Notification was very close to Christmas for this Christmas present. Over all a very UNSATISFACTORY experience.

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