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The women who revolutionized fashion : 250 years of design

2020

Title:	The women who revolutionized fashion : 250 years of design / edited by Petra Slinkard ; with contributions by Madelief Hohe, Lan Morgan, Paula B. Richter, Petra Slinkard and Rachel Syme.
Format:	Book
Publisher, Date:	New York, NY : Rizzoli Electa, [2020]
Description:	159 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Summary:	Diane Von Furstenberg, Vivienne Westwood, Sarah Burton, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Donna Karan, and Iris van Herpen are among the great women designers to emerge in the last few decades. We now live in an age when no one would dare call them "that little seamstress," as Paul Poiret disdainfully referred to Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel more than a century ago. The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion highlights early innovative and contemporary designers working in a variety of materials and genres. This unique volume profiles widely-known early fashion vanguards such as Jeanne Lanvin, Callot Soeurs, and Madeleine Vionnet, as well as underrepresented women who revolutionized fashion from the mid-1700s to the present. More than one hundred works--including street fashion, ready-to-wear, traditional, and haute couture--celebrate women designers' concepts of dress and beauty. Through the work of more than fifty individual style makers, The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion illuminates issues of representation, creativity, and distinctiveness, as well as the labor challenges surrounding fashion today.
Subjects:	Fashion designers -- History. Women fashion designers -- History. Fashion -- History. Clothing trade -- History.
Genre:	Biographies.
Other Author:	Slinkard, Petra. Hohé, Madelief. Morgan, Lan. Richter, Paula B. Syme, Rachel.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	0847868222 9780847868223
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Petra Slinkard is the Nancy B. Putnam curator of fashion and textiles at the Peabody Essex Museum. Madelief Hohé is curator of the collection of fashion and costumes at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague. Paula Richter is curator of exhibitions and research and Lan Morgan is assistant curator for exhibitions and research at the Peabody Essex Museum. - (Random House, Inc.)

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