Barbie Takes the Catwalk A Style Icon's History in Fashion

Name: Barbie Takes the Catwalk A Style Icon's History in Fashion
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A Style Icon's History in Fashion

By Karan Feder

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Barbie Takes the Catwalk explores the influential relationship between Barbie's iconic fashion and legendary designers over more than six decades. Featuring over 125 iconic Barbie looks paired with more than 100 runway photographs, this book delves into Barbie's sartorial impact from Dior and Chanel to skate culture and rave fashion. Costume historian Karan Feder offers a beautifully researched celebration of Barbie as a style icon and her dialogue with global fashion trends.
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This visually stunning, meticulously researched volume is ideal for fans of fashion history, pop culture, and design enthusiasts seeking a unique perspective on a beloved cultural icon.

For more than 60 years, Barbie has both reflected fashion trends and set them. Now, her iconic outfits are paired with legendary looks from design houses like Dior, Balenciaga, Mary Quant, and Pucci, for a fascinating celebration of the relationship between the runway and toy aisle.

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Coffee Table Book of the Year

For more than 60 years, Barbie has reflected fashion trends and set them. Now, her iconic outfits are paired with the legendary looks from iconic designers for a fascinating celebration of the relationship between the runway and the toy aisle.

Barbie has always been a fashion icon, with a wardrobe of looks inspired by the world’s great fashion designers, and inspiring them as well with her signature style.

From decade-defining designs by formidable fashion royalty such as Dior, Balenciaga, Yves St. Laurent, Pucci, and Chanel, to skateboard culture and rave fashion, Barbie doll’s outfits have reflected the fashion and the time.

In Barbie Takes the Catwalk, hundreds of images from designer runways, magazine editorials, and fashion archives are paired with detailed photographs of vintage Barbie outfits to offer an unprecedented examination of the Barbie brand’s sartorial impact.

In this award-winning book, author and costume historian Karan Feder thoughtfully explores Barbie doll's first 40 years to highlight the vast artistry and cultural significance of the doll’s fashion canon, and looks at contemporary fashion designers influenced by the Barbie legacy. This meticulously researched and gorgeous book is a must for any fan of fashion, pop culture, and Barbie.

MORE THAN 100 FASHION PHOTOS: Hundreds of photos from the runways of designers that have influenced Barbie, including André Courrèges, Bill Gibb, Christian Lacroix, Emanuel Ungaro, Karl Lagerfeld, and Thierry Mugler.

125 ICONIC BARBIE LOOKS: From “Enchanted Evening” to the totally-80s looks of Barbie and the Rockers, Barbie Takes the Catwalk offers a stunning retrospective of the doll’s fashion canon.

INFLUENCE AND IMPACT: Explores the relationship between the world’s great fashion houses and the world’s best-selling and most-loved fashion doll.

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR: Karan Feder is an award-winning costume designer, historian, and the curator of the travelling exhibition of Barbie’s fashion history, called Barbie®, A Cultural Icon: 60 Years of Fashion and Inspiration.

THE PERFECT GIFT for fans of art, fashion, design, or Barbie, Barbie Takes the Catwalk is a fascinating historical record of the fashionable trends and popular-cultural themes inherent within Barbie’s vast clothes closet.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9798886740493

Publisher: Insight Editions

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 September 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Weldon Owen, Incorporated

Illustration: Throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 236.0mm

Height: 325.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 224

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Arts & Culture Barbie Karan Feder Non-Fiction

About the Author

Karan Feder is a leading expert in the field of performance costume history, preservation, and exhibition. She is an experienced museum professional with expertise in the development and execution of compelling costume and fashion exhibitions. Karan is also the author of Barbie Takes the Catwalk: A Style Icon’s History in Fashion.