Vintage fashion and couture : from Poiret to McQueen /

Taylor, Kerry,

Vintage fashion and couture : from Poiret to McQueen / Kerry Taylor ; foreword by Hubert de Givenchy ; prologue by Christopher Kane. - 223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.

"This title was developed by Mitchell Beazley, an imprint of Octopus Publishing Group, Ltd."--Copyright page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-219) and index.

1900s : Paul Poiret ; Lucile ; Mariano Fortuny ; Style icon: Baroness Curzon of Kedleston -- 1920s : Jean Patou ; Style icon: Baba D'Erlanger ; Jeanne Lanvin ; Chanel in the twenties -- 1930s : Elsa Schiaparelli ; Style icon: Wallis Simpson ; Madeleine Vionnet: the architecture of couture -- 1940s : The effect of war on fashions in Europe ; American fashion in the forties ; Style icon: Lauren Bacall ; Christian Dior: the saviour of French haute couture ; Madame Grès: the sculptress of fabric -- 1950s : Pierre Balmain ; Cristóbal Balenciaga: the master ; Style icon : Grace Kelly ; Dior in the fifties ; Postwar Chanel -- 1960s : Mary Quant ; The boutique movement ; Style icon: Twiggy ; The space age comes to fashion ; Pop and op art influences ; Hubert de Givenchy ; Style icon: Audrey Hepburn ; Design in America ; The decade's end -- 1970s : Biba ; Yves Saint Laurent in the seventies ; Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell ; Zandra Rhodes ; Later Madame Grès ; Jean Muir ; Style icon: Bianca Jagger ; Bill Gibb ; Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren -- 1980s : The new romantics ; BodyMap ; Thierry Mugler ; Italian masters ; Style icon: Diana, Princess of Wales ; Azzedine Alaïa ; John Galiano ; Westwood in the eighties ; Japanese innovation: the shock of the new -- 1990s : Gianni Versace ; Jean Paul Gaultier ; Style icon: Kate Moss ; Alexander McQueen ; Martin Margiela ; Conceptual fashion -- 2000s : Later McQueen ; Style icon: Daphne Guinness -- Collecting vintage ; Where to buy ; Vintage forgeries ; Taking care of your collection.

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