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Fashion Plates 150 Years of Style

Calahan April, Cannell Karen Trivette, Sui Anna

ISBN: HB: 9780300212266, Yale University Press, November 2015
440 pp., 33x28 cm, 225 colour illus.

Prior to the invention of photography, European and American magazines used colorful prints to depict the latest fashion trends. These illustrations, known as "fashion plates", conveyed the cutting-edge styles embraced by the fashion-conscious elite...

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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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Dressing Up Fashion Week NYC

Friedlander Lee, Ryan Kathy

ISBN: HB: 9780300179859, Yale University Press, May 2015
84 pp., 33x28 cm, 59 duotone illus.

Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) is one of the most renowned photographers of his generation. Through Friedlander's lens, people in their everyday environments are transformed into arresting portraits, and the banal features of roadsides, storefronts, and c...

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High Style Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Reeder Jan

ISBN: PB: 9780300212310, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2015
256 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 355 colour illus.

"High Style is filled with fashion inspiration and information...Nearly every page...includes a captivating photo of one of the collection's lavish garments or accessories" – Threads Published for the first time in paperback, this lavishly illustrate...

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Fashion Victims Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette

Chrisman-Campbell Kimberly

ISBN: HB: 9780300154382, Yale University Press, March 2015
256 pp., 28x23 cm, 40 colour images, 160 black&white illus.

This engrossing book chronicles one of the most exciting, controversial, and over-the-top periods in the history of fashion: the extravagant reign of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette in 18th-century France. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell offers a carefully...

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Shaping the Body An Intimate History of the Mechanics of Underwear

Bruna Denis

ISBN: PB: 9780300204278, Yale University Press, February 2015
272 pp., 27.9x22.2 cm, 207 colour and black&white illus.

This unique, erudite and entertaining book offers fascinating insights into the tortuous transformations employed by both men and women to sculpt their figures and accommodate the ever-shifting dictates of fashion. With high design, wit and style, "S...

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Helena Rubinstein Beauty is Power

Klein Mason

ISBN: HB: 9780300195569, Yale University Press, November 2014
192 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

Helena Rubinstein (1870-1965) broke free from the constraints of her 19th-century, small-town Polish Jewish background to become a cosmetics industry giant and household name. She produced and marketed the means for ordinary women to transform themse...

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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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Charles James Beyond Fashion

Koda Harold, Reeder Jan Glier, Rucci Ralph, Scaturro Sarah, Petersen Glenn

ISBN: HB: 9780300204360, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2014
300 pp., 33x25.4 cm, 300 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Charles James, often considered to be America's first couturier, was renowned in the 1940s and 1950s as a master at sculpting fabric for the female form and creating fashions that defined mid-century glamour. Although James had no formal training as...

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