High style : masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Jan Glier Reeder.
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TextPublication details: New Haven, [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2010Description: 256 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. (some col.) ; 29 cmISBN: 9780300155228 (hbk.) :; 0300155220 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Exhibitions | Costume -- Exhibitions | Dress accessories -- Exhibitions | Costume -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions | Dress accessories -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions | Beauty and FashionDDC classification: 391'.00747471 | Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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Paul Hamlyn Library | Paul Hamlyn Library | Floor 2 | 391.00747471 REE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 05943922 |
Published in conjunction with an exhibition on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 5-Aug. 15, 2010, and at the Brooklyn Museum, May 7-Aug. 1, 2010.
Includes bibliography (p. 252).
Historical fashions 1760s-1890s - The House of Worth 1860s-1930s - French couture 1880s-1980s - Elsa Schiaparelli 1930s-1940s - American women designers 1920s-1970s - American men designers 1930s-1980s - Charles James 1930s-1950s - Rarities 1600s-1960s - Shoes 1600s-1950s.
The Brooklyn Museum of Art holds almost 25,000 objects of costume, dating from the 18th century onwards. This is the first publication to review the collection, currently curated in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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