Dressing The Decades

Includes Paul Poiret, Jeanne Paquin, Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix, Maison Lucile, Coco Chanel, Jacques Doucet, Jean Patou, Callot Soeurs, Jeanne Lanvin, Madeleine Vionnet, Elsa Schiaparelli, Adrian, Christian Dior, Madame Gr{grave}es, Charles James, Crist{acute}obal Balenciaga, Hubert de Givenchy, Pierre Balmain, Pierre Cardin, Emilio Pucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Halston, Ralph Lauren, Kenzo, Christian Lacroix, Thierry Mugler, Yohji Yamamoto, Gianni Versace, Calvin Klein, Martin Margiela, and others.

A decade-by-decade showcase of the twentieth century's most iconic fashion moments.

Presents a decade-by-decade guide to the most influential looks of the past century, matching red-carpet gowns to famous celebrities while providing original designer sketches, photos of rare couture, and interviews with a range of authorities.

"Discusses the fashions of the 1920s, including clothing and hairstyles, trends and fads, designers, and world events that influenced the fashion"--Provided by publisher

Delves into the free-spirited clothing trends of 1960s, exploring history from a social and cultural angle.

Kate Dimitrova et Margaret Goehring: Introduction. --Textiles in context (David Ganz: Pictorial textiles and their performance : the star mantle of Henry II. --Warren T. Woodfin: Orthodox liturgical textiles and clerical self-referentiality. --Henry Schilb: The epitaphioi of Stephen the Great. --Christiane Elster: Liturgical textiles as papal donations in late medieval Italy. --Stefanie Seeberg: Monument in linen : a thirteenth-century embroidered catafalque cover for the members of the beata stirps of saint Elizabeth of Hungary. --Kristin Böse: Cultures re-shaped : textiles from the castilian royal tombs in Santa María de Las Huelgas in Burgos). --The represented textile as sign (Catherine Walden: "So lyvely in cullers and gilting" : vestments on episcopal tomb effigies in England. --Evelin Wetter: Material evidence, theological requirements and medial transformation : "textile strategies" in the court art of Charles IV. --Jennifer E. Courts: Weaving legitimacy : the Jouvenel des Ursins family and the construction of nobility in fifteenth-century France. --Yuko Kadoi: Textiles in the great mongol Shahnama : a new approach to ilkhanid dress).

From the glamour of the 30s to the extremes of the 80s, from the corsets of the Belle Epoque to the kaftans of the 70s, this volume offers an impressive pictorial overview of the fashion world of the entire twentieth century. Chanel's jersey suits, Dior's "new look", Mary Quant's minis and Alaia's stretch bodies are high fashion developments that also had an impact on everyday clothing. In addition to the great designers, prominent icons like Marlene Dietrich and Madonna provided impulses. People are not the only source of fashion trends: political events also make their mark on what we wear, and thus the book presents many fashions in terms of their historical context. Decades of Fashion captures the world of fashion in hundreds of photographs drawn both from the fashion runways and from everyday life. Brilliant pictures of every situation and area of life relate the exciting history of fashion. Colour photographs

From the glamour of the 30s to the extremes of the 80s, this volume offers an impressive pictorial overview of the fashion world of the entire twentieth century.