Colonial and Early American Fashions (History of Fashion)

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The Places and Spaces of Fashion, 1800-2007 brings together art, design, fashion, and a much neglected concern for its spatial realities. The spaces and places of fashion have often been overlooked in the writing of fashion history and visual culture. More often than not, however, these environments mitigate, control, inform, and enhance how fashion is experienced, performed, consumed, seen, exhibited, purchased, appreciated and of course displayed. Space, as this volume attempts to illustrate, is itself a representational strategy on par with and influencing the visibility and visuality of fashion. Innovative and challenging, the essays in this volume explore various physical and conceptual spaces,! moving from physical environments to the two-dimensional with paintings, illustrations, and photographs to chart similarities, differences, and complex nuanced relationships between environments, fashion, identities, and visuality. The volume also navigates various sites (both permanent and temporary) of production, circulation, exhibition, consumption, and promotion of fashion that define meaning and knowledge about a culture or individual by providing for a bond between embodied consumers/spectators and fashion objects. The Places and Spaces of Fashion, 1800-2007 is a compelling project with a thematic, theoretical, and historiographic approach that is at once both focused yet far-reaching and original in its implications. The volume engages with questions attending to the ‘modern condition’ by seamlessly weaving interdisciplinary discussions of the visual with material culture to explore the spatial dimension(s) of fashion. Some of the essays explore new and exciti! ng spaces while others offer compelling revisionary analyses o! f relati vely known sources

When Rose-Petal and her garden friends plan a fashion show, Nastina the spider is determined to ruin it.All the styles of Greek architecture clearly explained, with a wealth of information on sculpture, vase painting, frescoes and mosaics. Over 500 fine-art illustrations and photographs of temples, archaeological sites, sculptures, paintings and vases make this an indispensable source for anyone wanting to discover the rise and fall of ancient Greece for themselves.

From New York to London, Paris, Los Angeles, Palm Beach, Rome, Milan, Munich, Madrid, and Tokyo, Shopping Bag Secrets is a chic guide to the most distinctive stores and their most famous status symbols--their shopping bags. It gives seasoned shoppers exclusive access to the best shopping spots: from locations to specialties, founders to shoppers, anecdotes to raves.
Shopping bags are on the streets and in the closets of every major city in the world. They are shown off, collected, r! ecycled, stolen and given away. They are works of art, status symbols, and phenomenal advertising vehicles. They are the greatest freebies of all time. From the classic simplicity of the blue Tiffany & Co. bag to the lavish Mackenzie-Child multi-colored , illustrated, beribboned bag, to the subtle black Barneys bag, this book profiles the most memorable designs, revealing why they have become the icons that shoppers yearn to carry.

Paris has been the international capital of style for three hundred years. Although challenged by other fashion cities such as Milan, London and New York, Paris remains special. This fascinating book shows that the strength of the French fashion industry rests on the depth and sophistication of its fashion culture. Revised and updated, Paris Fashion is reprinted here in paperback for the first time. More than just a history of famous designers and changing styles, the book is about fashion as a cultural ideal and a social phe! nomenon. By focusing on a ‘case study’ of Paris, Steele p! rovides brilliant insights into the significance of fashion in modern urban society.

The author, an internationally recognized authority on the history of fashion, is the author of many books, including Fashion and Eroticism, Women of Fashion: 20th-Century Designers, Fetish: Fashion, Sex & Power, and Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now.y

Prada, Gucci, Max Mara: high fashion is synonymous with luxury, glamor, pleasure, and Italy. Yet Italian fashion also has a dark history that has not previously been explored. The Fascism of 1930's Italy dominated more than just politics--it spilled over into modes of dress. Fashion under Fascism is the first book to consider this link in detail. Fashion often functions as a tacit means of making a social statement, but under Mussolini it vividly reflected political tyranny. Paulicelli explores the subtle yet sinister changes to the seemingly innocuous practices of everyday dress and shows why they were such a ! concern for the state. Importantly, she also demonstrates how these developments impacted on the global dominance of Italian fashion today. This fascinating book includes interviews with major designers, such as Fernanda Gattinoni and Micol Fontana, and sheds new light on the complicated relationship between style and politics.

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Forty-five carefully researched illustrations present an exciting panorama of more than 150 years of European-inspired fashions, accurately depicting 17th-century Puritans, an indentured servant, an English officer and his lady, pirates dressed in latest fashions acquired as booty, a colonial merchant's family of the mid-1700s, and more.