Fashion In Detail: From the 17th and 18th Centuries

This sumptuously illustrated book offers the first up-close view of the richness and variety of historical dress of the 17th and 18th centuries. Drawn from the Victoria and Albert Museum's world-famous collection, these garments display skills that are now lost, yet continue to inspire today's leading designers. Much of the finery seen here is too fragile to be on permanent display, or its detail too intricate to be captured in conventional photography. Jacobean blackwork, neoclassical tambour work, exquisite stitching, and knife-sharp pleats are pictured in stunning photographs, alongside such unusual techniques as stamping, pinking, and slashing--many of which are rarely employees in the modern world, as they require labor-intensive handwork impossible to replicate by machine. With line drawings showing the construction of the complete garment and a text that sets each in the context of its time, this book is a visual feast for all fashion lovers, and an essential resource for curators, collectors, students, costumers and designers.

Fashion in Detail: From the 17th and 18th Centuries

Arts & Photography

Hart, Avril

North, Susan

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Rizzoli

Graphic Design

This fascinating account of the development of the necktie from the 1670s to the present draws on contemporary pictorial and written sources as well as featuring stunning photographs of ties from the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum's world famous dress collection.

Ties

Costume & Fashion Press/Quite Specific Media

This beautiful look at fans through the ages is illustrated in full color with some of the most spectacular examples from the world famous dress collection of the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum in London. Created throughout history for a multitude of different purposes, many fans are also exquisite works of art. Tracing the evolution of the art of European fan making -- &amp; the social uses of the fan -- the story begins in the 17th century, &amp; concludes with the near-demise of fans early this century. Includes 19th- &amp; 20th-century commercial fans, as well as examples of modern artist s fans. Combines lively text &amp; color photos, along with contemporary engravings, magazines, journals &amp; original designs.

Fans

Taylor, Emma

History & Criticism

Costume & Fashion Pr

An updated and revised edition of this popular title, this edition draws on the Victoria and Albert Museum's most popular gallery, the Costume Court, to tell the story of men's and women's fashionable dress through the ages. Descriptive entries discuss the materials, cut and trimming of individual garments and give fascinating insights into the donors and the life and times when the clothes were worn.

Four Hundred Years of Fashion

GINSBURG, Madeleine

Mendes,Valerie

Victoria & Albert Pubns

This fascinating account of the development of the necktie from the 1670s to the present draws on contemporary pictorial and written sources as well as featuring stunning photographs of ties from the Victoria & Albert Museum's world famous dress collection.

Ties /anglais

Decorative Arts & Design

V&A Publications

Now available from Abrams, this popular book offers a rare, close-up look at the exquisite, labor-intensive details seen in fine historical clothing. Perfect decorative seams, minute stitching, knife-sharp pleats, and voluptuous drapery-all are here, alongside more unusual techniques such as stamping, pinking, and slashing. Most of these effects cannot be replicated by machine, yet many of today's fashion designers take their inspiration from the past, adapting these details to a more contemporary idiom, and to the realities of modern manufacturing. Drawing from the Victoria and Albert Museum's world-famous collections, the book contains a gallery of exquisite photographs, accompanied by clear line drawings showing the construction of the complete garment and a text that sets each in the context of its time. This book will appeal to anyone interested in fashion, historical costume, or textile history, from cut and construction to fabric and trimmings.

Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail

History

V&A Publishing

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