An illustrated history of fashion : 500 years of fashion illustration

Name/Title

An illustrated history of fashion : 500 years of fashion illustration

Entry/Object ID

TT509.M33

Description

A chronological account of the evolution of dress which covers 500 years of fashion, as seen through the art of its period. The illustrations range from early woodcuts through the development of fashion plates and the rise of fashion journalism to the use of film, photography and the Internet.

Collection

Titi Halle/Cora Ginsburg LLC Collection

Lexicon

Search Terms

fashion drawing--history, fashion--history

Legacy Lexicon

Category

Book

Book Details

Author

Alice Mackrell

Publisher

Costume & Fashion Press

Place Published

City

New York, NY

Date Published

1997

Call No.

TT509.M33

ISBN

896762165, 9780896762169

LCCN

97019634

Notes

Length: 224

General Notes

Note Type

Contents

Note

1. Portraits of Fashion and Developments in Fashion Illustration to 1600 -- 2. Fashion Engraving, Portrait Painting and Fashion Journalism in the Seventeenth Century -- 3. The Flowering of Fashion Illustration in the Eighteenth Century -- 4. The Growth of Fashion Illustration in the Nineteeth Century -- 5. Fashion Illustration in the Twentieth Century.