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Vintage Fashion

Collecting and wearing designer classics
By Emma Baxter-Wright
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Vintage Fashion by Emma Baxter-Wright offers a rich visual exploration of twentieth-century style, covering everything from key designers to the distinctive shapes, textiles, and stitching that defined each decade through to the 1990s. Each section concludes with a helpful 'key looks' overview, capturing the essential colours and silhouettes of the era.

The book also serves as a practical guide for vintage enthusiasts, featuring advice on sourcing and caring for authentic vintage pieces, along with a glossary of fashion terms and profiles of the most collectible designers of the century.
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A visual journey through the fashion of the decades, showing you how to identify key designers and details and characteristics that define the most influential pieces of the twentieth century (up to and including the 1990s). The book concludes with a shopping guide.

A visual journey through the fashion of the decades, Vintage Fashion shows you how to identify key designers, shapes, textiles, stitching, and other details and characteristics that define the most influential pieces of the twentieth century (up to and including the 1990s).

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Foreword by Zandra Rhodes

A visual journey through the fashion of the decades, Vintage Fashion shows you how to identify key designers, shapes, textiles, stitching, and other details and characteristics that define the most influential pieces of the twentieth century (up to and including the 1990s).

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.

The book 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781802790931

Publisher: Headline Publishing Group

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 May 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Welbeck

Illustration: illus

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Zandra Rhodes

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 188.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 960g

Pages: 256

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About the Author

Emma Baxter-Wright has taught fashion journalism at University of the Arts London and UCA. She has contributed to many publications including the New York Observer, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire, and is the bestselling author of Little Book of Chanel and Chanel in 55 Objects. Emma lives in London.

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