
From the Victorian crinoline to Vivienne Westwood's 1985 bandage dress to Christopher Kane's 2006 neon revamp, these 100 glorious, groundbreaking dresses made fashion history. Through beautiful images, anecdotes, and analysis, The Dress looks at past styles and present-day reinterpretations, showing how design ideas have been reborn and referenced through time. Whether beaded, bias-cut, frou-frou, corseted, laced, or bustled, each dress has a story to tell.
Publisher:
London :, Goodman,, 2014
Description:
255 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 29 cm
ISBN:
9781847960740
184796074X
184796074X
Branch Call Number:
391.472 Fog



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Add a CommentFun coffee table book. Lots of glossy, beautiful photos.
Very poorly organized - some 'dress ideas' are a material, some a silhouette, others a cultural appropriation. The author jumps inexplicably among fashion catwalks, royalty past and present, film stars and occasionally everyday wear. Most frustrating to me was the lack of any semblance of timeline.