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Fashion Underground The World of Susanne Bartsch

Steele Valerie, Marra Melissa, Bartsch Susanne, Khairzada Waleed

ISBN: HB: 9780300214628, Yale University Press, October 2015
168 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 250 colour illus.

Susanne Bartsch has been the queen of New York City nightlife since the 1980s when she first became famous for spectacular parties, where a diverse crowd brought fashion to the level of performance art. Her most important party was undoubtedly the 19...

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Exposed A History of Lingerie

Hill Colleen, Steele Valerie

ISBN: HB: 9780300208863, Yale University Press, November 2014
172 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 80 colour illus.

Lingerie is a subject of enduring fascination. As the final barrier to the fully nude body, it is simultaneously modest and erotic. This compelling and eye-catching publication surveys lingerie from the mid-18th century to the present, covering a bro...

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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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Shoe Obsession

Steele Valerie, Hill Colleen

ISBN: HB: 9780300190793, Yale University Press, February 2013
192 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 200 colour illus.

This fabulously illustrated book explores western culture's fascination with extravagant and fashionable shoes. Over the past decade, shoe design has become increasingly central to fashion, with fashion companies paying ever more attention to shoes a...

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Daphne Guinness

Steele Valerie, Guinness Daphne

ISBN: HB: 9780300176636, Yale University Press, September 2011
192 pp., 28x23 cm, 100 colour illus.

"She is one of the – if not the – most stylish women living", says designer and film director Tom Ford, speaking of Daphne Guinness, the subject and co-author of this extraordinary book. From her platinum-and-black striped hair to her towering 10-inc...

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Japan Fashion Now

Steele Valerie

ISBN: PB: 9780300167276, Yale University Press, September 2010
240 pp., 30x23.5 cm, 120 colour illus.

Scholars have long acknowledged the significance of the Japanese 'fashion revolution' of the 1980s, when avant-garde designers Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons introduced a radically new conception of fashion. But w...

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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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