Fashion Since 1900
“Excellent . . . makes many revealing connections between fashion and modern painting styles, theatricalism, ethnographic design, and sports clothing.”—Bloomsbury Review

From the turn-of-the-century S-bend silhouette to the “green fashion” and celebrity couture of the new millennium, this comprehensive survey explores all the significant developments in fashion in a period that has seen a growing preoccupation with personal appearance and clothes. It focuses on key movements and innovations in style for both men and women, and explores these through the work of the most original and influential designers. Chapters are organized around crucial shifts in style and major world events, and exciting advances in fashion are placed within their socioeconomic, political, and cultural contexts.

International in scope, this new edition includes updates on the most important new designers and the reinvention of brands. The reference section includes an extensive bibliography.
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Fashion Since 1900
“Excellent . . . makes many revealing connections between fashion and modern painting styles, theatricalism, ethnographic design, and sports clothing.”—Bloomsbury Review

From the turn-of-the-century S-bend silhouette to the “green fashion” and celebrity couture of the new millennium, this comprehensive survey explores all the significant developments in fashion in a period that has seen a growing preoccupation with personal appearance and clothes. It focuses on key movements and innovations in style for both men and women, and explores these through the work of the most original and influential designers. Chapters are organized around crucial shifts in style and major world events, and exciting advances in fashion are placed within their socioeconomic, political, and cultural contexts.

International in scope, this new edition includes updates on the most important new designers and the reinvention of brands. The reference section includes an extensive bibliography.
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Fashion Since 1900

Fashion Since 1900

Fashion Since 1900

Fashion Since 1900

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Overview

“Excellent . . . makes many revealing connections between fashion and modern painting styles, theatricalism, ethnographic design, and sports clothing.”—Bloomsbury Review

From the turn-of-the-century S-bend silhouette to the “green fashion” and celebrity couture of the new millennium, this comprehensive survey explores all the significant developments in fashion in a period that has seen a growing preoccupation with personal appearance and clothes. It focuses on key movements and innovations in style for both men and women, and explores these through the work of the most original and influential designers. Chapters are organized around crucial shifts in style and major world events, and exciting advances in fashion are placed within their socioeconomic, political, and cultural contexts.

International in scope, this new edition includes updates on the most important new designers and the reinvention of brands. The reference section includes an extensive bibliography.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780500204023
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 03/15/2010
Series: World of Art
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 314
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Amy de la Haye is an expert dress historian. She is the Rootstein Hopkins chair of dress history & curatorship at London College of Fashion.

Valerie Mendes was Head of the Textiles and Dress Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Table of Contents

Preface 6

Chapter 1 1900-1913: Undulations and Exotica 11

Chapter 2 1914-1929: La Garçonne and the New Simplicity 47

Chapter 3 1930-1938: Recession and Escapism 78

Chapter 4 1939-1945: Rationed Fashion and Home-Made Style 107

Chapter 5 1946-1956: Femininity and Conformity 130

Chapter 6 1957-1967: Affluence and the Teenage Challenge 160

Chapter 7 1968-1975: Eclecticism and Ecology 196

Chapter 8 1976-1988: Sedition and Consumerism 228

Chapter 9 1989-1999: Fashion Goes Global 262

Chapter 10 2000-2010: Recession, Heritage and the Internet 285

Chapter 11 2010-2020: Fashion and Activism 310

Afterword 334

Bibliography 337

Sources of Illustrations 359

Acknowledgements 361

Reference index 362

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