Fashion game changers : reinventing the 20th-century silhouette /
Fashion game changers : reinventing the 20th-century silhouette /
edited by Karen van Godtsenhoven, Miren Arzalluz & Kaat Debo.
- 292 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Fashion Game Changers' traces radical innovations in Western fashion design from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Challenging the traditional silhouettes of their day, fashion designers such as Madeleine Vionnet and Cristóbal Balenciaga began to liberate the female body from the close-fitting hourglass forms which dominated European and American fashion, instead enveloping bodies in more autonomous garments which often took inspiration from beyond the West. As the century progressed, new generations of avant-garde designers from Rei Kawakubo to Martin Margiela further developed the ideas instigated by their predecessors to defy established notions of femininity in dress, creating space between body and garment. This way, a new relationship between body and dress emerged for the 21st century.
Specialized.
9781474279048 (hbk.) : £25.00 No price
Fashion design--History--20th century.
Beauty and Fashion.
Beauty and Fashion.
746.9'2
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Fashion Game Changers' traces radical innovations in Western fashion design from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Challenging the traditional silhouettes of their day, fashion designers such as Madeleine Vionnet and Cristóbal Balenciaga began to liberate the female body from the close-fitting hourglass forms which dominated European and American fashion, instead enveloping bodies in more autonomous garments which often took inspiration from beyond the West. As the century progressed, new generations of avant-garde designers from Rei Kawakubo to Martin Margiela further developed the ideas instigated by their predecessors to defy established notions of femininity in dress, creating space between body and garment. This way, a new relationship between body and dress emerged for the 21st century.
Specialized.
9781474279048 (hbk.) : £25.00 No price
Fashion design--History--20th century.
Beauty and Fashion.
Beauty and Fashion.
746.9'2