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17th & 18th Century Fashion Detail

This sumptuously illustrated book reveals the decorative seams, exquisite stitching, voluptuous drapery, strict corseting and slashing and stamping that make up the clothing in the V&A`s superlative seventeenth and...

A Century of Olympic Posters

As snapshots through time, Olympic posters provide a fascinating record of our world, a lens through which we can explore links between sports and art, politics and place, commerce and culture. "A Century of Olympic...

A Century of Olympic Posters

As snapshots through time, Olympic posters provide a fascinating record of our world, a lens through which we can explore links between sports and art, politics and place, commerce and culture. "A Century of Olympic...

A to Z of Hollywood Style

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means,...

Art Deco Fashion pb

This popular celebration of roaring 1920s fashion is now available in paperback. From beaded evening dresses for dancing the Charleston to sporty outfits for golf, the world of Hollywood and F. Scott Fitzgerald is...

Bags

Exploring the changing styles and uses of bags from the Middle Ages to the present day, this gorgeous book, featuring specially commissioned photography of bags from the V&A`s world famous collections, includes...

Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950

This unique and groundbreaking book presents dynamic and interpretive photographs of 60 years of British ballgowns and includes designs by Alexander McQueen, Bellville Sassoon, Bill Gibb, Erdem, Gareth Pugh, Stella...

Bill Gibb: Fashion and Fantasy

This stunning book explores the work of a prolific and, at his best, truly visionary designer: his background and the enduring themes that inspired his designs. Gibb`s fashion philosophy is revealed through the words...

British Asian Style: Fashion and Textiles, Past and Present

East and West intersect in this gorgeous exploration of South Asian textiles and their influence on British fashion and dress. From 17th-century chintzes to 19th-century silks and paisleys to the orientalism craze of...

British Textiles1700 to Present

This superbly illustrated book draws on highlights from the V&A`s fabulous collection of woven, printed, and embroidered textiles and their designs. Based on the V&A`s British Textiles series, with a new introduction,...

Chanel: Couture and Industry

For almost a century, the name Chanel has been inextricably linked to elegance, modernity, and fashion innovation. It was Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel who single-handedly made striped jerseys and loose trousers chic,...

Che Guevara: Revolutionary and Icon

Walk through any major metropolis around the globe and it is likely that you will come across an image of Che Guevara - the Korda image of Che, that is, the face of "Guerrillero Heroico" tilted up towards some vision...

Cult of Beauty: Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900

The Cult of Beauty focuses on a period at the end of the nineteenth century when a group of artists, architects and designers found themselves linked by the search for a new Beauty. The Aesthetic Movement, as it came...

David Bowie Is the Subject

David Bowie is a pioneering artist and performer whose career has spanned nearly 50 years and brought him international acclaim. He has sold over 140 million albums, and been cited as a major influence on contemporary...

Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes, 1909-1929

Serge Diaghilev was an extraordinarily gifted impresario, curator, director and animator of the arts. He was perfectly at home driving the wave of creative energy that pushed theatrical performance to the cutting edge...

Dior

In 1947 Christian Dior rocked the fashion world with his New Look, which dominated postwar fashion and firmly secured the name of his house in the minds of the public and the industry. Based on new research, this...

Fashion and Armour in Renaissance Europe

Of all the riches of the sixteenth-century European nobleman, none spoke more powerfully of his heroism,wealth and taste than his armour, clothing and weapons. Drawing on the V+A`s popular arms and armour collection,...

Four Hundred Years Of Fashion

This lively history of fashion uses the world famous collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum to tell the story of four centuries of European men`s and women`s fashionable dress. An authoritative text explains the...

Golden Age of Couture (Pb)

This lavish book focuses on Parisian and British couture between 1947 and 1957, a decade that Christian Dior described as fashion`s `golden age`. Dior`s `New Look` collection of 1947 shocked and delighted the fashion...

Grace Kelly Style

Synonymous with cool elegance and impeccable good taste, Grace Kelly remains a style icon of the twentieth century. This book is the first to explore exclusively Grace Kelly`s personal style and how she carefully...

Halfway to Paradise. The Birth of British Rock

From the emergence of Bill Haley and his Comets to the meteoric rise of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, Halfway to Paradise is an extraordinary photographic tribute to the forces that invented rock. From the 1950s...

Hats. An Anthology

Using radical materials and designs that range from refined to whimsical, Stephen Jones`s exquisitely crafted hats ignited a revival of British millinery in the early 1980s and reclaimed the hat`s place as an...

Hollywood Costume

This landmark book celebrates, for the very first time, the costume designer`s contribution to the telling of the cinematic story in 100 years of Hollywood. Rocking the conventions of what is considered `costume`,...

Imagined Interiors

Offers a study of the ideas that have shaped the domestic interior in the West over five hundred years. Looking at an array of depictions of the home, this book deals with both public and private attitudes to the...

Japanese Art and Design

Originally published for the opening of the Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum, this book celebrates and sets in context many of the Museum`s greatest treasures from Japan. These superb...