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Fairy Tale Fashion

Hill Colleen, Mears Patricia, Sampson Ellen, Vaclavik Kiera, Zipes Jack

ISBN: HB: 9780300218022, Yale University Press, March 2016
264 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 127 colour illus., 35 black&white illus.

Dress plays a crucial role in fairy tales, signaling the status, wealth, or vanity of particular characters, and symbolizing their transformation. Fairy tales often provide little information beyond what is necessary to a plot, but clothing and acces...

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Dance and Fashion

Steele Valerie, Davis Mary, Hill Colleen, Marra Melissa, McClendon Emma, Mears Patricia, Monden Masafumi, Rasche Adelaide, Way Elizabeth, Winestein Anna

ISBN: HB: 9780300208856, Yale University Press, October 2014
224 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 150 colour illus.

Dress and adornment have long played an important role in the visual allure of dance, and fashion designers have often been inspired by the way dancers look. The tutus and pointe shoes of the Romantic ballerina, for example, have influenced designers...

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Ivy Style Radical Conformists

Mears Patricia, Breward Christopher, Boyer G. Bruce, Chensvold Christian, Monden Masafumi, McNeil Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300170559, Yale University Press, September 2012
224 pp., 28x23 cm, 120 colour illus.

Many of the most familiar sartorial images of the 20th century can be traced to the prestigious college campuses of America. The "Ivy League Look", or "Ivy Style", was once a cutting-edge look that for decades led the evolution of menswear. Far more...

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American Beauty Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion

Mears Patricia

ISBN: HB: 9780300155358, Yale University Press, January 2010
192 pp., 30x23.5 cm, 120 colour illus.

This beautifully illustrated book is the first to examine the relationship between innovation and aesthetics as expressed by American couturiers and fashion designers from the late 1910s to the present day. The book, which accompanies a major exhibit...

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Ralph Rucci The Art of Weightlessness

Steele Valerie, Mears Patricia, Sauro Clare

ISBN: HB: 9780300122787, Yale University Press, February 2007
128 pp., 32.5x22.8 cm, 80 colour illus.

Working quietly and without much public attention for more than 20 years, American fashion designer Ralph Rucci suddenly became a headline topic in 2002, when he was invited to show his collection at the haute couture in Paris – the first American to...

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