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Title: Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now by Valerie Steele, Irving Solero, Dorothy Twining Globus ISBN: 0-300-08738-1 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent fashion primer for the last 50 years of the 20th C
Comment: This book has both beautiful photographs and informative text. The only reason I took off one star is that I think more photographs from each designer should have been included. I especially would have liked to have seen a few more photos of clothes from American designers from the 1990s. Throughout the book, the author mostly displays clothes made by European designers. I would not have expected much attention to be focused upon American designers before 1980s or 1990s. Arguably, it was not until the 1990s that American fashion really started to influence Europe, instead of the other way around. Because this reversal of influence was such a change, I would have expected more attention to be paid to it visually. Therefore, the lack of representation in this era makes me think that American designers were somewhat shortchanged in this book. However, I agree that all the designers selected, both European and American, did heavily influence their own time periods.
This book covers Post War 1940s through 1990s. In each era the author focused on a few key designers. The author chose Balenciaga, Balmain, and Dior to represent the 1940s and 1950s. The author primarily showcased Correges, Yves Saint Laurent, and Quant to represent the 1960s. Halston and Yves Saint Laurent were the focus of the 1970s era. More designers are represented in the 1980s. The book has one or two photos from Chanel, Lacroix, Blass, Herrera, Azzedine Alaia, Armani, Gaultier, Comme des Garcon, and Issey Miyake, among a few others. The 1990s are represented by a photo or two of designs from Versace, Anna Sui, Chanel, Tom Ford for Gucci, Galliano, Donna Karen, Westwood, Calvin Klein, and Prada.
Just as it is the maxim for fashion in general, so is it for this book in particular...less is more. The photos in this book capture the essence of each era and the text details the stylistic atmosphere to which each designer contributed. I highly reccommend this book. Despite having access to it at the library, I plan on buying it.
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Title: The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Fashion and Fashion Designers by Georgina O'Hara Callan, Georgina Encyclopaedia of Fashion O'Hara ISBN: 050020313X Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Fashion, Culture, and Identity by Fred Davis ISBN: 0226138097 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Fashion, the Twentieth Century by Francois Baudot ISBN: 0789303760 Publisher: Universe Books Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Icons of Fashion: The 20th Century by Gerda Buxbaum, Andrea Affaticati ISBN: 3791321617 Publisher: Prestel USA Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The St. James Fashion Encyclopedia: A Survey of Style from 1945 to the Present by Richard Martin ISBN: 0787610364 Publisher: Visible Ink Pr Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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