The women who revolutionized fashion : 250 years of design /
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 disdainfu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY : Salem, Massachusetts :
Rizzoli Electa ; Peabody Essex Museum,
2020.
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | "In collaboration with Kunstmuseum Den Haag." -- Title page. "This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion presented by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, on view from May 16 to September 7, 2020. The Kunstmuseum Den Haag organized the original exhibition with curator Madelief Hohé under the title Femmes Fatales: Strong Women in Fashion." -- Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780847868223 0847868222 |