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The Thames and Hudson dictionary of fashion and fashion designers /

By: Contributor(s): Series: World of artPublication details: New York : Thames and Hudson, 1998.Edition: Rev., expanded and updated edDescription: 272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 050020313X
  • 9780500203132
Other title:
  • Dictionary of fashion and fashion designers
  • Fashion and fashion designers
Subject(s): Summary: "This guide to fashion provides in more than 1,200 entries detailed information on the life and work of every important designer from 1840 up to the present day, including not only couturiers but also shoe, hat and knitwear specialists, costume designers, jewelers and hairdressers. It also covers the fashion media, photographers and illustrators, influential art movements, fashion terms, garment and accessory styles, technical processes, and every kind of fabric, as well as personalities who have influenced fashion or promoted a style. Extensively illustrated in both colour and black and white, international in scope and completely up to date, it is an essential sourcebook for designers, students, collectors and enthusiasts. Its full cross-referencing and wide-ranging bibliography provide invaluable additional information."--Jacket.
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Book Limited Loan Book Limited Loan Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General TT 503 CAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0001742

Previous edition published under the title: The encyclopaedia of fashion.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-272).

"This guide to fashion provides in more than 1,200 entries detailed information on the life and work of every important designer from 1840 up to the present day, including not only couturiers but also shoe, hat and knitwear specialists, costume designers, jewelers and hairdressers. It also covers the fashion media, photographers and illustrators, influential art movements, fashion terms, garment and accessory styles, technical processes, and every kind of fabric, as well as personalities who have influenced fashion or promoted a style. Extensively illustrated in both colour and black and white, international in scope and completely up to date, it is an essential sourcebook for designers, students, collectors and enthusiasts. Its full cross-referencing and wide-ranging bibliography provide invaluable additional information."--Jacket.

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