Fashion Since 1900
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Description
From Belle Epoque tea gowns to Dior's 1947 'New Look' and fashion blogs in the 2000s, this comprehensive, international survey explores all the significant developments in fashion from 1900 to the present day. Formerly published as the internationally successful 20th Century Fashion, the survey is now brought right up to date with a new chapter that dicusses, among many topics, the impact of the Internet on the fashion industry, the importance of new fashion centres in India and China and how fashion is now pluralistic, multi-cultural and fast moving.
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Product details
- Paperback | 312 pages
- 150 x 210 x 19.81mm | 650g
- 13 May 2011
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- Revised
- New Edition
- 223 Illustrations, black and white; 77 Illustrations, color
- 0500204020
- 9780500204023
- 203,032
Table of contents
1. 1900-1913: Undulations and Exotica * 2. 1914-1929: La Garconne and the New Simplicity * 3. 1930-1938: Recession and Escapism * 4. 1939-1945: Rationed Fashion and Home-Made Style * 5. 1946-1956: Feminity and Conformity * 6. 1957-1967: Affluence and the Teenage Challenge * 7. 1968-1975: Eclecticism and Ecology * 8. 1976-1988: Sedition and Consumerism * 9. 1989-1999: Fashion Goes Global * 10. 2000-: Planet Fashion
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Review quote
'Articulate and brilliantly illustrated' - Reference Reviews
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About Valerie D. Mendes
Valerie D. Mendes, formerly Head of Fashion and Textiles at the V&A, is a freelance fashion and textiles historian. Professor Amy de la Haye is Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Dress History & Curatorship at London College of Fashion. She was formerly Curator of Twentieth-Century Dress at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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