Survey of Historic Costume, 5h Edition Now Available!
Updated and redesigned with full-color illustrations, this authoritative text on costume history provides a complete chronology of Western dress that discusses the fashion of each era within its historical, cultural, and economic contexts.
20th Century Dress in the United States
High fashion or low, glitz or grunge, this book examines over 100 years of the American fashion industry, its trends, and innovations.
Fashioning Society: A Hundred Years of Haute Couture by Six Designers Now Available!
This text tells the story of the period from the 1860s to the 1970s, a time when a succession of haute couture designers—most notably, Charles Worth, Paul Poiret, Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent—were the arbiters of fashion, and their creations were the weapon of choice for power-seeking members of the aristocracy and upper classes.
WWD Illustrated
Featuring artwork selected from the pages of WWD, this book celebrates the work of Fairchild's staff artists. This book documents fashion illustrations drawn for a trade publication and the business of fashion rather than for consumers or the general public.