
Pre-Owned The World's Most Influential Fashion Designers: Hidden Connections and Lasting Legacies of Fashion's Iconic Creators (Hardcover) 0764163574 9780764163579
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This comprehensive analysis of fashion design and how it has evolved is complemented with more than 350 color illustrations.
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- Book formatHardcover
- Fiction/nonfictionNon-Fiction
- Publication dateJanuary, 2010
- Pages192
- Number in series1
- Edition1
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This comprehensive survey examines fifty of the most influential fashion designers, ranging from early celebrity-status designers like Paul Poiret to current cutting edge contemporary designers like Hussein Chalayan and others who are changing the face of style culture in the twenty-first century. The fifty designers named in this book have been selected because of their extraordinarily powerful influence on fashion. Collectively, they are responsible for almost the entire fashion story of the past 100 years. Each designerÂ's iconic creations are shown in detail, and graphic timelines and cross-references show not only why their garments were extraordinary in their own day, but how their special qualities passed the test of time and continue to influence designers to the present day. This handsomely illustrated volume examines fifty of the most influential fashion designers of the past 100 years. Each designer's most significant creations are illustrated and discussed in light of how they survived the test of time, and then went on to influence fashion to the present day. The author categorizes leading fashion designers as follows--
This comprehensive analysis of fashion design and how it has evolved is complemented with more than 350 color illustrations.
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