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Timeless
Timeless is an anthology of the most influential styles, looks, and garments from the past 200 years. Art and fashion historian Hayley Edwards-Dujardin offers readers a behind-the-scenes look at the history behind iconic garments, the designers who revolutionized the industry, and the cultural moments that continue to inform how we dress today. Entries include legendary pieces like the Chanel suit, the Hermès Kelly bag, and Jean Paul Gaultier’s men’s skirt, as well as iconic basics like jeans, sneakers, white t-shirts, black dresses, and bandanas. Learn the history behind these memorable looks, as well as their cultural significance. This lavishly illustrated book features 200 photos, 20 pages of infographics, and 20 illustrated silhouettes, making it a visual feast for fashion enthusiasts and historians alike. Timeless is a celebration of clothing and the definitive guide to some of the most influential moments in fashion history, making it an absolute must-have for any fashion lover.
Fashion, Society, and the First World War
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. The historiography of the Great War has been significantly renewed in recent years; yet, despite its crucial social, economic, and cultural importance, the role that fashion played in shaping wartime experiences and economies on an international scale between 1914 and 1918 has largely gone unaddressed. Fashion, Society, and the First World War fills this gap by offering a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the war on the ways that the fashion industry functioned in a global wartime economy, as well as on the ways that ...
Small, Medium, Large
We live in a world of seemingly limitless consumer choice. Yet, as every shopper knows without thinking about it, many everyday goods – from beds to batteries to printer paper – are available in a finite number of “standard sizes.” What makes these sizes “standard” is an agreement among competing firms to make or sell products with the same limited dimensions. But how did firms – often hotly competing firms – reach such collective agreements? In exploring this question, Colleen Dunlavy puts the history of mass production and distribution in an entirely new light. She reveals that, despite the widely publicized model offered by Henry Ford, mass production techniques did not na...
Fashion Aesthetics and Ethics
How are aesthetics and ethics related to the practical realities of the global fashion industry? Both have played an important role in academic fashion studies to this point, but they are most often discussed in the context of abstract phenomena such as modernity and capitalism, or identity issues such as sexuality, class and gender. The essays in this volume strive instead to show how the realities of the global fashion industry have important and pertinent aesthetic and ethical consequences. This collection provides critical and philosophical analysis of the interplay of aesthetics and ethics within the global fashion industry. Characterized by an increasingly fast spinning production, the...
A History of Hygiene in Modern France
This book tells the story of an epochal change in the human condition that was part of what is often thought of as 'modernization' -a process that remade culture and society in France in the 19th and 20th centuries. Hygiene, Steven Zdatny convincingly contends, was that change. He reflects on how the development of hygiene: changed the way people thought about and treated their bodies; put an end to age-old afflictions and brought comfort where discomfort had been the unavoidable companion of existence; and helped produce a tripling of life expectancy. The book considers how the evolution of hygiene produced a society where people washed often, changed their clothes every day, lived without ...
Regional Dress
Traditional dress is a common phenomenon across much of Western Europe, often originating in elaborate practices for rural religious events. Yet despite its fundamentally local nature, traditional dress in various European regions developed along a similar trajectory, sometimes being transformed into political symbols and regional promotion for tourism, and always revealing the complexity of rural society in terms of religious divisions, class inequality and tension between the desires to protect tradition and embrace modernity. To better understand how traditional dress evolved in France and Germany from the 19th to 21st centuries, this book takes Alsace as its case study and in doing so il...
The Rose in Fashion
Examples from jewelry, millinery, handbags, perfume, couture, and everyday dress show how the rose--both beautiful and symbolic--has inspired fashion over hundreds of years.
Mode – Kleidung – Textil
Mode, Kleidung, Textil – diesen ebenso allgegenwärtigen wie komplexen Grundphänomenen des menschlichen Daseins wissenschaftlich gerecht zu werden, setzt Transdisziplinarität und Flexibilität voraus. Für eine Zusammenführung heterogener Zugänge und eine damit verbundene institutionelle Konsolidierung des Faches ist eine fundamentale Methodendiskussion unerlässlich. Die Autorinnen aus unterschiedlichen Herkunftsdisziplinen führen grundlegend in die von ihnen erstmals beschriebene Mode-, Kleidungs- und Textilwissenschaft ein und widmen sich deren methodenpluralistischer Erschließung. Die vorgestellte Methode überzeugt durch eine gut nachvollziehbare modulare Struktur und erzielt, v...
Women Dressing Women
This beautifully illustrated book explores the considerable impact of fashions created by and for women by tracing a historical and conceptual lineage of female designers—from unidentified dressmakers in eighteenth-century France to contemporary makers who are leading the direction of fashion today. Stunning new photographs of exceptional garments from the unparalleled collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute complement insightful essays that consider notions of anonymity, visibility, agency, and absence/omission, highlighting celebrated designers and forgotten histories alike to reveal women’s impact on the field of fashion. The publication includes garments from French houses such as Vionnet, Schiaparelli, and Mad Carpentier to American makers like Ann Lowe, Claire McCardell, and Isabel Toledo, along with contemporary designers such as Rei Kawakubo, Iris van Herpen, Simone Rocha, and Anifa Mvuemba. Situating the works within a larger social context, this overdue look at female-led design is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of fashion.
La historia de la mujer en 100 objetos
La herencia de las mujeres resulta tan rica, tan diversa y aún hoy día tan desconocida que desborda la manera convencional de contarla. Al igual que las mujeres han encontrado huecos para sobrevivir o imponerse, para escribir o pintar, para llegar a la educación o al poder, para que el dolor disminuyera o el trabajo resultara más liviano, es preciso que la historia que las estudia recurra a miradas y a formatos nuevos.
Ese es el espíritu que anima este libro: acercarnos a la historia femenina desde una perspectiva distinta, guiados por 100 objetos que tuvieron a las mujeres como protagonistas, destinatarias o inventoras. Desde el pintalabios, la Barbie, el búcaro de barro, la mantilla o la vacuna de la viruela.
Espido Freire nos muestra la astucia de nuestras antepasadas para dar respuesta a sus necesidades en una sociedad que las consideraba una prioridad menor, y rescata un universo condenado al silencio por los historiadores tradicionales.
