Fashion India

Name/Title

Fashion India

Entry/Object ID

TT504.6.I5.J39

Description

India is set to join the world’s fashion hubs. With a unique creative inheritance, stretching back thousands of years, it is also rapidly making the future its designers ravishingly original in responding to the creative tensions between Indian and Western, traditional and modern, lavish ornamentation and minimal chic. Each chapter begins with a general introduction, followed by profiles of a selection of key designers interwoven with interviews conducted by the author specially for this book.

Lexicon

Search Terms

fashion design--india, fashion--india

Legacy Lexicon

Category

Book

Book Details

Author

Phyllida Jay

Publisher

Thames & Hudson

Place Published

City

New York

State/Province

New York

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Date Published

2016

Call No.

TT504.6.I5.J39

ISBN

500292019, 9780500292013

Notes

Length: 256

General Notes

Note Type

Contents

Note

Bollywood : luxury bridal and formal wear -- Crafting and weaving Indian fashion -- The whole six yards : continuity and transformations in the Indian sari -- The art of Indian fashion -- Designing the boundaries of Indian fashion -- Generation next.