Description
Tracing the evolution of fashion—from the opulence of the court of Louis XV to the catwalk couture of as of late—this stunningly illustrated volume charts three centuries of fashion trends and innovations.
This handsome volume is published to accompany an important exhibition that chronicles fashion from the seventeenth century to the current. Featuring 300 iconic pieces, it highlights key moments in fashion history and provides new insight into the designers, patrons, and groundbreaking techniques and materials. It also explores how fashion has all the time been intertwined with both fine art and the ornamental arts. A number of the great couturiers were known for this artistic cross-pollination, including such towering figures as Jeanne Lanvin, Madeleine Vionnet, Gabrielle Chanel, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent.
Re-created here are quite a lot of fashion inflection points illustrating fashion’s elective affinities with other disciplines. Eighteenth-century wood paneling, scenic wallpapers by Zuber, and Paul Iribe’s drawings for Paul Poiret, among other examples, provide best possible settings for fashion’s stylistic metamorphoses culminating within the effervescence and eclecticism of as of late’s global fashion scene.