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Film Studies

Dressing Dangerously Dysfunctional Fashion in Film

Faiers Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300184389, Yale University Press, November 2013
320 pp., 28x24 cm, 50 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

When Marlene Dietrich makes her entrance in Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright, the Dior dress she wears immediately draws the viewer's attention – not because of its designer label, but owing to the dramatic blood stains ruining its stylish surface. Fa...

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Exhibiting Fashion Before and After 1971

Clark Judith, de la Haye Amy

ISBN: HB: 9780300125795, Yale University Press, October 2013
192 pp., 29.7x24 cm, 100 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

With the dramatic increase in popularity of fashion exhibitions over the past decade, this groundbreaking book provides a timely look at the evolution of the practice, taking as its anchor the seminal 1971 Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition "Fashi...

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Mechanical Smile Modernism and the First Fashion Shows in France and America, 1900-1929

Evans Christine Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780300189537, Yale University Press, May 2013
400 pp., 28x23 cm, 80 colour images, 170 black&white illus.

In the early 20th century, the desire to see clothing in motion flourished on both sides of the Atlantic: models tangoed, slithered, swaggered, and undulated before customers in couture houses and department stores. "The Mechanical Smile" traces the...

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Punk Chaos to Couture

Bolton Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780300191851, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2013
224 pp., 25x15 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

Since its origins in the 1970s, punk has had an incendiary influence on fashion. With its eclectic mixing of stylistic references, punk effectively introduced the postmodern concept of bricolage not only into directional ready-to-wear but also into t...

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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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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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Handbags The Making of a Museum

Clark Judith, Evans Caroline, de la Haye Amy, Phillips Adam, Wilcox Claire

ISBN: HB: 9780300186185, Yale University Press, August 2012
272 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 350 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

The history of the handbag – its design, how it has been made, used, and worn – reveals something essential about women's lives lived over the last 500 years. Perhaps the most universal item of fashionable adornment, it can also be elusive, an object...

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Performing Arts

Staging Fashion, 1880-1920 Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke

Majer Michele

ISBN: PB: 9780300181135, Yale University Press, February 2012
176 pp., 22.2x17.8 cm, 220 colour illus.

Although Jane Hading (1859-1940), Lily Elsie (1886-1962), and Billie Burke (1884-1970) gained fame as stage actresses, their popular appeal also rested on their ability to cultivate a glamorous appearance. Their careers illustrate the early transform...

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What Clothes Reveal The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America

Baumgarten Linda

ISBN: PB: 9780300181074, Yale University Press, January 2012
256 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 355 colour images, 36 black&white illus.

Paintings of upper-class men and women tell an important part of the history of costumes, but surviving garments themselves reveal even more. Every crease, stitch, and stain in a piece of clothing supplies information about its wearer and its era. Th...

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100 Shoes

Koda Harold, Parker Sarah Jessica

ISBN: PB: 9780300172409, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2011
232 pp., 17.8x25.4 cm, 16 black&white illus., 194 colour illus.

In a brilliant follow-up to "100 Dresses", published in 2010, the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum once again opens the vaults of its renowned permanent collection to introduce readers to the rich diversity of shoes within its holdings. T...

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