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Vintage Fashion

By Emma Baxter-Wright
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Vintage Fashion by Emma Baxter-Wright explores the evolution of fashion through the decades, highlighting iconic designs and influential figures who shaped style trends. This beautifully illustrated book delves into various eras, detailing the fabrics, patterns, and silhouettes that defined each period. It's an insightful journey into the art and culture of fashion history for enthusiasts and collectors alike.
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This book may appeal to you if you have a passion for the enduring elegance of past fashion eras and appreciate detailed insights into vintage styles. It's perfect for anyone looking to explore the influences and iconic pieces that have shaped fashion history through the lens of classic design and cultural significance.

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Vintage Fashion

A fully updated and expanded edition of this phenomenally successful book, first published in 2006, now released with 32 more pages to cover the 1990s.

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A visual journey through the fashion of the decades, Vintage Fashion enables the reader to identify key designers, shapes, textiles, stitching, and other details and characteristics that define the most influential pieces of the twentieth century.

Each decade ends with a 'key looks' spread showing an at-a-glance view of the important shapes, colours and looks that defined the era.

Vintage Fashion concludes with a shopping guide, which offers pointers on sourcing and caring for original vintage pieces, along with a glossary of fashion terms and the century's most collectable designers.

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Vintage Fashion by Emma Baxter-Wright offers a beautifully curated exploration of fashion history, praised for its vivid photographs and insightful commentary. Readers appreciate its engaging narrative, which traces the evolution of style over decades. Critics highlight the book's appeal to both fashion enthusiasts and those interested in cultural history, noting its comprehensive coverage and aesthetic presentation.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781780977102

Publisher: Welbeck Publishing Group

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 August 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Carlton Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 222.0mm

Height: 282.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 256

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About the Author

Emma Baxter-Wright studied fashion at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and history of art at Bristol University. A former fashion editor, she is the author of The Little Book of Schiaparelli and The Little Book of Chanel.


Formerly fashion correspondent at the Daily Mirror, Karen Clarkson is a fashion writer, stylist and broadcaster who has contributed to Interview, i-D and V. Karen is the fashion director for FKA Twigs and co-founder of vintage archive Found and Vision.


Sarah Kennedy is a seasoned magazine journalist who has worked for a string of fashion titles, including Grazia, In Style, Glamour and Marie Claire, where she was deputy editor. She is the author of Vintage Swimwear and Vintage Style.


Kate Mulvey is a journalist specializing in fashion, beauty and lifestyle subjects. With regular articles in the Daily Mail, Daily Express, Sunday Times and the Independent, she is also the author of Decades of Beauty: The Changing Image of Women 1890s-1990s.

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