Vintage Fashion: Collecting and Wearing Designer Classics - Hardcover

Baxter-Wright, Emma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061252018 ISBN 13: 9780061252013

Publisher: Collins Design, 2007

Synopsis

The definitive word on the most influential designers and looks of the twentieth century, Vintage Fashion is a gorgeous resource for fashionistas, vintage clothing fanatics, and designers of all ages and varieties. Whether an aspiring fashion professional or simply a lover of vintage styles, Emma Baxter Wright's acclaimed guide to wearing and collecting vintage articles is an unmatched and invaluable guide to discovering a more exciting life-of-style today.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Vintage Fashion is the ultimate guide to the most exemplary women's clothing from the turn of the twentieth century through the end of the 1980s. Along with a detailed, authoritative text, this gorgeous book offers more than 250 outstanding full-color photographs showcasing the quality fabrics, innovative techniques, silhouettes, shapes, and exquisite workmanship that are testimony to enduring and influential styles.

Each chapter focuses on a specific decade and is a rich survey of each era, placing the evolution of women's fashion in a cultural context. The most important designers and signature looks are discussed in detail and emphasized through beautiful illustrations, photographs, and fabric swatches. Finally, each chapter ends with a Key Looks feature that offers an at-a-glance view of the important shapes, colors, and details that defined each era.

Vintage Fashion concludes with a shopping guide, which not only offers tips on where to buy vintage pieces, but also how to care for them, and glossaries on fashion terms and the century's most collectable and important designers. The definitive word on the most influential designers and looks of the twentieth century, this book is an invaluable resource for lovers of fashion and vintage clothing as well as a source of inspiration for designers and those looking to spice up their personal style.

About the Author:

Emma Baxter-Wright studied fashion at St Martin's College of Art and Design and taught at the London College of Fashion. A former fashion editor, she has contributed articles to The Face, iD, Just Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, and Fine Art Collector.

Karen Clarkson has written and styled for Glamour, Grazia, OK!, Elle, and Jalouse.

Sarah Kennedy has written and edited for numerous fashion magazines for more than twenty years. Most recently, her articles have appeared in She, InStyle, Glamour, and Marie Claire.

Kate Mulvey contributes regularly to numerous British publications, including the Sunday Times and The Independent. She is also the author of Decades of Beauty: The Changing Image of Women 1890s-1990s and a contributing author of Key Moments in Fashion.

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins Design
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0061252018
• ISBN 13: 9780061252013
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224