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Vintage Fashion & Couture: From Poiret to McQueen

Kerry Taylor

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Description:"A sumptuous survey of vintage fashion and couture from the 1910s to today. ""Vintage Fashion and Couture: From Poiret to McQueen" tells the story of fashion through the work of its key design talents and the memorable women who have worn their designs. It explores designers' careers through a dazzling range of clothes and accessories, and explains what makes each item so desirable and why it was so important for the fashion world. It describes the designers' role among their contemporaries, and their influence on the world of fashion.The author, a world-renowned expert in vintage fashion, organizes the book by decade with each chapter focusing on a number of important designers and the most influential style icons. Fashion pieces are shown in color photographs with descriptive captions that include the current vintage price range, making it a practical resource for vintage shoppers.The designers and style icons in the book are: 1910s Poiret, Lucille, Fortuny, Gallenga, Paquin, Liberty & Co. Style icon: Lillie Langtry 1920s Patou, Lanvin, early Chanel. Style icon: Baba d'Erlanger 1930s Schiaparelli, Molyneux, Mainbocher, Vionnet. Style icon: Duchess of Windsor 1940s War & Fashion in Europe, the emergence of American designers, Dior's New Look. Style icon: Lauren Bacall 1950s Balmain, Balenciaga, the death of Dior and the emergence of Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel's post-war look. Style icon: Grace Kelly 1960s Mary Quant, the Boutique Movement, the Space Age comes to fashion, Pop and Op Art influences, Givenchy, Design in America. Style icons: Twiggy, Audrey Hepburn 1970s Biba, Ossie Clark & Celia Birtwell, Yves Saint Laurent, the birth of Rive Gauche. Style icon: Bianca Jagger 1980s Valentino, Body Map, Roberto Capucci, Azzedine Alaia, John Galliano, Mugler, Vivienne Westwood, Comme des Garcons. Style icon: Princess Diana 1990s Jean Paul Gaultier, Versace, Martin Margiela, Junya Watanabe, Bodycon, Antony Price. Style icon: Kate Moss The New Century Alexander McQueen, Christopher Kane. Style icon: Daphne Guinness.The final section, Buying Vintage, is an inside look in which the author, a world leader in vintage fashion, reveals how and where to buy the best vintage pieces, as well as how to spot fakes and forgeries.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Vintage Fashion & Couture: From Poiret to McQueen. To get started finding Vintage Fashion & Couture: From Poiret to McQueen, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: "A sumptuous survey of vintage fashion and couture from the 1910s to today. ""Vintage Fashion and Couture: From Poiret to McQueen" tells the story of fashion through the work of its key design talents and the memorable women who have worn their designs. It explores designers' careers through a dazzling range of clothes and accessories, and explains what makes each item so desirable and why it was so important for the fashion world. It describes the designers' role among their contemporaries, and their influence on the world of fashion.The author, a world-renowned expert in vintage fashion, organizes the book by decade with each chapter focusing on a number of important designers and the most influential style icons. Fashion pieces are shown in color photographs with descriptive captions that include the current vintage price range, making it a practical resource for vintage shoppers.The designers and style icons in the book are: 1910s Poiret, Lucille, Fortuny, Gallenga, Paquin, Liberty & Co. Style icon: Lillie Langtry 1920s Patou, Lanvin, early Chanel. Style icon: Baba d'Erlanger 1930s Schiaparelli, Molyneux, Mainbocher, Vionnet. Style icon: Duchess of Windsor 1940s War & Fashion in Europe, the emergence of American designers, Dior's New Look. Style icon: Lauren Bacall 1950s Balmain, Balenciaga, the death of Dior and the emergence of Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel's post-war look. Style icon: Grace Kelly 1960s Mary Quant, the Boutique Movement, the Space Age comes to fashion, Pop and Op Art influences, Givenchy, Design in America. Style icons: Twiggy, Audrey Hepburn 1970s Biba, Ossie Clark & Celia Birtwell, Yves Saint Laurent, the birth of Rive Gauche. Style icon: Bianca Jagger 1980s Valentino, Body Map, Roberto Capucci, Azzedine Alaia, John Galliano, Mugler, Vivienne Westwood, Comme des Garcons. Style icon: Princess Diana 1990s Jean Paul Gaultier, Versace, Martin Margiela, Junya Watanabe, Bodycon, Antony Price. Style icon: Kate Moss The New Century Alexander McQueen, Christopher Kane. Style icon: Daphne Guinness.The final section, Buying Vintage, is an inside look in which the author, a world leader in vintage fashion, reveals how and where to buy the best vintage pieces, as well as how to spot fakes and forgeries.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Vintage Fashion & Couture: From Poiret to McQueen. To get started finding Vintage Fashion & Couture: From Poiret to McQueen, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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