Fashion

• Beautifully illustrated throughout
• The most accessible and up to date book on fashion available.
• Includes further reading, timeline, and list of relevant museums and galleries.
• Covers 150 years of fashion; from the earliest development of Haute Couture in 1850 right up to the present day.
• Covers a range of designers from Dior to Armani and Miyake.

Readership: The general reader interested in all aspects of fashion, from the international catwalk to the High Street; those with a more specific interest such as students of fashion design and cultural studies, social history and gender studies, and costume historians.

Christopher Breward, Professor in Cultural and Historical Studies, London College of Fashion

Introduction
1 - The Production of Fashion1: The Rise of the Designer
2: Making Clothes
3: Innovating Change
2 - The Promotion of Fashion4: Disseminating Desire
5: Fashion on the Page
6: Fashion and Film
7: Shopping for Style
3 - The Wearing of Fashion8: Style and Modernity
9: Fashion Capitals
10: Fashion and Identity
Further Reading
Timeline
Museums and Galleries