Fashion in Costume, 1200-2000 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fashion in Costume, 1200-2000 write by Joan Nunn. This book was released on 2000. Fashion in Costume, 1200-2000 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An updated edition of Joan Nunn's detailed survey of costume in the Western world over the past eight centuries.
Fashion in Costume, 1200-1980
Fashion in Costume, 1200-1980 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fashion in Costume, 1200-1980 write by Joan Nunn. This book was released on 1990. Fashion in Costume, 1200-1980 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ...one of the best surveys of costume in the western world we've seen....This...could easily become the design bible of any costume shop.--Stage Director
Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction
Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction write by Christine Bayles Kortsch. This book was released on 2016-05-13. Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In her immensely readable and richly documented book, Christine Bayles Kortsch asks us to shift our understanding of late Victorian literary culture by examining its inextricable relationship with the material culture of dress and sewing. Even as the Education Acts of 1870, 1880, and 1891 extended the privilege of print literacy to greater numbers of the populace, stitching samplers continued to be a way of acculturating girls in both print literacy and what Kortsch terms "dress culture." Kortsch explores nineteenth-century women's education, sewing and needlework, mainstream fashion, alternative dress movements, working-class labor in the textile industry, and forms of social activism, showing how dual literacy in dress and print cultures linked women writers with their readers. Focusing on Victorian novels written between 1870 and 1900, Kortsch examines fiction by writers such as Olive Schreiner, Ella Hepworth Dixon, Margaret Oliphant, Sarah Grand, and Gertrude Dix, with attention to influential predecessors like Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot. Periodicals, with their juxtaposition of journalism, fiction, and articles on dress and sewing are particularly fertile sites for exploring the close linkages between print and dress cultures. Informed by her examinations of costume collections in British and American museums, Kortsch's book broadens our view of New Woman fiction and its relationship both to dress culture and to contemporary women's fiction.
The A to Z of the Fashion Industry
The A to Z of the Fashion Industry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The A to Z of the Fashion Industry write by Francesca Sterlacci. This book was released on 2009-10-26. The A to Z of the Fashion Industry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The history of clothing begins with the origin of man, and fashionable dress can be traced as far back as 25,000 years ago. Recent scientific explorations have uncovered graves in northern Russia with skeletons covered in beads made of mammoth ivory that once adorned clothing made of animal skin. The Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans each made major contributions to fashion's legacy from their textile innovations, unique clothing designs and their early use of accessories, cosmetics, and jewelry. During the Middle Ages, 'fashion trends' emerged as trade and commerce thrived allowing the merchant class to afford to emulate the fashions worn by royals. However, it is widely believed that fashion didn't became an industry until the industrial and commercial revolution during the latter part of the 18th century. Since then, the industry has grown exponentially. Today, fashion is one of the biggest businesses in the world, with hundreds of billions of dollars in turnover and employing tens of millions of workers. It is both a profession, an industry, and in the eyes of many, an art. The A to Z of the Fashion Industry examines the origins and history of this billion-dollar industry. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced entries on designers, models, couture houses, significant articles of apparel and fabrics, trade unions, and the international trade organizations.
The Impossible Collection of Fashion
The Impossible Collection of Fashion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Impossible Collection of Fashion write by Valerie Steele. This book was released on 2011-08-01. The Impossible Collection of Fashion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this limited edition, Ultimate Collection format linen clamshell and handmade oversized book, Valerie Steele flexes her curatorial muscle by showcasing the most iconic dresses of the twentieth century. From Poiret to Pucci, Doucet to Dior, Vionnet to Valentino, Steele selects one hundred dresses that caused a stir either on the runway or entering a room and ultimately inspired new directions in fashion. Steele’s selections include Paul Poiret's figure-liberating 1907 gown, Madame Grès’s sublimely draped goddess creation from 1938, Jean Paul Gaultier's shockingly exaggerated cone-bust corset dress circa 1984, and Hussein Chalayan’s awe-inspiring remote-control fiberglass Airplane dress from 2000. The compilation, while certainly subjective, is sure to receive nods of recognition along with a gasp or two of surprise.
