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Vintage Knitwear

Collecting and wearing designer classics
By Marnie Fogg
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Vintage Knitwear by Marnie Fogg offers a detailed visual exploration of knitwear across the twentieth century. The book highlights key periods, notable styles, influential designers, and cultural trends shaping fashion knitwear. Arranged in chronological order, it examines unique constructions, innovative techniques, and defining pieces that capture the essence of each era and designer.
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A visual journey through the decades, Vintage Knitwear takes a close look at the key periods, significant styles, iconic designers and cultural influences in fashion knitwear.

Organized chronologically, Vintage Knitwear enables the reader to identify the unique constructions, innovative finishes and technical developments that determine the most influential knitwear designs of the decades of the twentieth century.

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Foreword by Kaffe Fassett

A visual journey through the decades, Vintage Knitwear takes a close look at the key periods, significant styles, iconic designers and cultural influences in fashion knitwear.

Organised chronologically, this book enables the reader to identify the unique constructions, innovative finishes and technical developments that determine the most influential knitwear designs of the decades of the twentieth century. Individual pieces that epitomise the defining characteristic of each designer or era are analysed in detail.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781802790979

Publisher: Headline Publishing Group

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 May 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Welbeck

Illustration: 300 illus

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Kaffe Fassett

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 192.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 860g

Pages: 224

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About the Author

Marnie Fogg is a fashion and media consultant. With a masters degree in art and design, she has also been a senior lecturer in fashion and textiles at the University of Nottingham. Marnie is the author of more than 10 books, including Vintage Handbags and Fashion: The Whole Story.

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