(please note: all these are stock photos)Kyoto Costume Institute book: Costume (paperback)
2006 printing by Taschen & Barnes/Noble Taken from the amazing collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute in Japan, the examples of fashion of all cultures are splendidly presented in this oversize book filled with hundreds of colour illustrations. The text is succinct andnti informative. A beautiful addition to any collection of fashion or costume design.
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Paris Fashion, a Cultural History by Valerie Steel (paperback)"Steele aims to underscore the importance of style and dress in modern society and concurrently to reveal why Paris has long been designated the center of world fashion, yet she claims, "This is not a history of Paris fashion, still less of haute couture ." The book is indeed both, with no disclaimer necessary. The title is perfectly apt, for Steele draws from the literature, politics, and art of the 14th to the 20th centuries; she is as fascinated by the treatment of "sartorial" distinctions in Proust and Baudelaire as she is by fashion images in 19th-century French painting. Ultimately, her strongest chapters deal with this century, but her research throughout is broad-ranging and her notes and bibliography extremely useful."
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The Importance of Wearing Clothes by Lawrence Langner (hardback)See it on ebay HERE!
Illustrating Fashion, Concept of Creation by Steven Stipelman (hardback)
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