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Vintage Fashion
Collecting and wearing designer classics
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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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This book is ideal for fashion students, vintage clothing collectors, and anyone interested in the history and artistry of twentieth-century apparel.
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See moreA 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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