Revolution in Fashion
Author: Jean Starobinski
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13:
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Queen of Fashion
Author: Caroline Weber
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2007-10-02
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 1429936479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinette's bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes. In Queen of Fashion, Caroline Weber shows how Marie Antoinette developed her reputation for fashionable excess, and explains through lively, illuminating new research the political controversies that her clothing provoked. Weber surveys Marie Antoinette's "Revolution in Dress," covering each phase of the queen's tumultuous life, beginning with the young girl, struggling to survive Versailles's rigid traditions of royal glamour (twelve-foot-wide hoopskirts, whalebone corsets that crushed her organs). As queen, Marie Antoinette used stunning, often extreme costumes to project an image of power and wage war against her enemies. Gradually, however, she began to lose her hold on the French when she started to adopt "unqueenly" outfits (the provocative chemise) that, surprisingly, would be adopted by the revolutionaries who executed her. Weber's queen is sublime, human, and surprising: a sometimes courageous monarch unwilling to allow others to determine her destiny. The paradox of her tragic story, according to Weber, is that fashion—the vehicle she used to secure her triumphs—was also the means of her undoing. Weber's book is not only a stylish and original addition to Marie Antoinette scholarship, but also a moving, revelatory reinterpretation of one of history's most controversial figures.
Fashion in the French Revolution
Author: Aileen Ribeiro
Publisher: B. T. Batsford Limited
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the changes in dress during the French Revolution and links them with the rapidly shifting political climate.
Loved Clothes Last
Author: Orsola de Castro
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2021-02-11
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0241461162
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'It's important that everyone with an interest in fashion reads this book so we can live on a healthier planet' Arizona Muse 'The most timely book you'll read this year' India Knight * * * * * Running out of space for the clothes you can't stop buying? Curious about how you can make a difference to the environmental challenges our planet faces? Join Orsola's care revolution and learn to make the clothes you love, last longer. This book will equip you with a myriad of ways to mend, rewear and breathe new life into your wardrobe to achieve a more sustainable lifestyle. By teaching you to scrutinise your shopping habits and make sustainable purchases, she will inspire you to buy better, care more and reduce your carbon footprint by simply making your loved clothes last longer. Following Orsola's practical tips to lavish care and attention on the clothes you already own will not only have a positive environmental impact, but will be personally rewarding too: hand wash, steam and spot clean your clothes, air dry instead of tumble drying, or revive your clothes by sewing or crocheting. Fast fashion leaves behind a trail of human and environmental exploitation. Our wardrobes don't have to be the finish line; they can be a starting point. We can all care, repair and rewear. Do you accept the challenge? * * * * * 'An incredibly thoughtful, must-read guide' Kenya Hunt 'A must read for anyone who wants to understand the fashion industry as an outsider and wants direction as to where we go next' Aja Barber
Saint Laurent Rive Gauche
Author: Pierre Bergé
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781419703102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, the first ready-to-wear clothing line launched by a couture house. Exploring Laurent's progressive approach to fashion, it highlights the cultural impact of the brand, especially its influence on women during the 60s and 70s.
Rei Kawakubo
Author: Rex Butler
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-12-15
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1350118249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons is undoubtedly one of the world's major fashion designers. In 2017 she was the second living designer to ever be given a retrospective at the renowned Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Her work exerts an extraordinary influence over succeeding generations of designers and is a major point of reference for all those wishing to explore the place of fashion in contemporary culture. The 14 essays in this collection, written by eminent fashion theorists from around the world, ask what is the relationship of Kawakubo's work to art, philosophy and architecture, and ultimately illustrate how Kawakubo's creative output allows us to understand the very notion of fashion itself.
Dandyism in the Age of Revolution
Author: Elizabeth Amann
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015-01-07
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 022618725X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Dandyism in the Age of Revolution, Elizabeth Amann shows that in France, England, and Spain, daring dress became a way of taking a stance toward the social and political upheaval of the period. France is the centerpiece of the story, not just because of the significance of the Revolution but also because of the speed with which both its politics and fashions shifted. Dandyism in France represented an attempt to recover a political center after the extremism of the Terror, while in England and Spain it offered a way to reflect upon the turmoil across the Channel and Pyrenees. From the Hair Powder Act, which required users of the product implications of the feather in Yankee Doodle's hat, Amann aims to revise our understanding of the origins of modern dandyism and to recover the political context from which it emerged. -- from back cover.
Fashion
Author: Gini Stephens Frings
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780130806413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOrganized according to the product development and marketing process accepted in the fashion industry, the new edition of this introductory text follows products from design concept through to consumer purchase. This complete coverage includes a complete description of global influences on the entire fashion industry.
Fashion and Cultural Studies
Author: Susan B. Kaiser
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1847885640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFashion and Cultural Studies addresses the growing interaction between the two fields. Bridging theory and practice, it draws on cultural diversity in fashion, dress and style in the context of globalization and its varied cultural-historical underpinnings.
Fashion
Author: Peter McNeil
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Published: 2009-02-01
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Art Association of Australia and New Zeland prize for Best Edited Book, 2010. Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources is a major multi-volume work of reference which brings together seminal writings on Fashion. The geographical range of the essays crosses Europe, Asia and North America. The essays reveal the wide set of methodological approaches which all bear on the study of Fashion - Sociology, Art History and Cultural History, Anthropology, Social Theory, Dress and Textile Studies. Ordered chronologically, the four volumes cover Late Medieval to Renaissance, the Eighteenth Century, the Nineteenth Century and the Twentieth Century to today. Each volume is separately introduced and the essays structured into coherent sections on specific themes. Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources will prove a major scholarly resource for any researchers involved in the study of Fashion, Dress and Costume.
