Mongol Shamans
Shaman Costumes at the National Museum of Denmark
ISBN: HB: 9788772197760,
Yale University Press,
September 2024
300 pp., 29,0x22,0 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.
300 pp., 29,0x22,0 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.
The costumes and ritual equipment presented in this volume were obtained from shamans in Mongolia and Siberia and represent today a unique cultural world heritage. They were collected in the 1930s by two Danish legendary travelers, Henning Haslund-Ch...
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£60.00
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Sleeping Beauties
ISBN: HB: 9781588397775,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
May 2024
288 pp., 33,7x24,8 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.
288 pp., 33,7x24,8 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.
A feast for the senses, this book brings fashion to life through touch, smell, sight, and sound
What happens when a garment is preserved in a museum's archive and can no longer be worn? What do we lose when we protect fashion for study by future ge...
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Women Dressing Women
A Lineage of Female Fashion Design
ISBN: HB: 9781588397201,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
November 2023
192 pp., 29,8x23,1 cm, 200 colour illus.
192 pp., 29,8x23,1 cm, 200 colour illus.
Exploring the enduring impact of fashions created by and for women, this book traces a historical and conceptual lineage across more than 70 female designers – from unidentified dressmakers in eighteenth-century France, to contemporary makers who are...
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£35.00
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Jane Austen's Wardrobe
ISBN: HB: 9780300263602,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
240 pp., 25,6x19,2 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
240 pp., 25,6x19,2 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
Hilary Davidson delves into the clothing of one of the world's great authors, providing unique and intimate insight into her everyday life and material world.
What did Jane Austen wear?
Acclaimed dress historian and Austen expert Hilary Davidson...
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£25.00
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Mood of the Moment
Gaby Aghion and Chloe
ISBN: HB: 9780300271188,
Yale University Press,
August 2023
256 pp., 30,5x25,4 cm, 211 colour, 71 black&white illus.
256 pp., 30,5x25,4 cm, 211 colour, 71 black&white illus.
An exploration of fashion designer Gaby Aghion's life, career, and legacy at the French fashion house Chloe.
As imagined by the company's founder, Gaby Aghion (1921-2014), the sophisticated, romantic, and glamorous designs of Chloe have captured th...
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Fashion at the Edge
Spectacle, Modernity, and Deathliness
ISBN: PB: 9780300270952,
Yale University Press,
May 2023
334 pp., 28,0x23,0 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
334 pp., 28,0x23,0 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
Experimental fashion has a dark side, a preoccupation with representations of death, trauma, alienation, and decay. This intriguing book looks closely at this strand of fashion design in the 1990s, exploring what its disturbing themes tell us about c...
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£35.00
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Karl Lagerfeld
A Line of Beauty
ISBN: HB: 9781588397584,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
May 2023
288 pp., 33,0x22,8 cm, 220 colour illus.
288 pp., 33,0x22,8 cm, 220 colour illus.
A compelling look at the aesthetic and historical significance of Lagerfeld's work – from his elegantly tailored pieces for Chanel to the witty, playful ensembles that came to define the Lagerfeld brand.
This publication is the first to present an i...
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Warhol
The Textiles
ISBN: HB: 9780300270518,
Yale University Press,
March 2023
160 pp., 27,0x21,6 cm, 131 colour and black&white illus.
160 pp., 27,0x21,6 cm, 131 colour and black&white illus.
Andy Warhol (1928-1987), a giant of twentieth century art, is known to most people for his iconic images of soup cans, Coke bottles, and Marilyn Monroe. Before his meteoric rise to fame in the early 1960s as a Pop Art superstar, Warhol was a highly s...
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£30.00
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Ten Kings' Clothes
Royal Danish Dress, 1596-1863
ISBN: HB: 9780300266764,
Yale University Press,
September 2022
496 pp., 30,9x23,9 cm, 500 colour illus.
496 pp., 30,9x23,9 cm, 500 colour illus.
A richly illustrated glimpse into the magnificent collection of seventeenth-century men's dress from the Danish kings' wardrobes.
"Ten Kings' Clothes: Royal Danish Dress, 1596-1863" presents the unparalleled collection of seventeenth-century male dr...
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Threads of Power
Lace from the Textilmuseum St. Gallen
ISBN: HB: 9780300263497,
Yale University Press,
September 2022
400 pp., 26,0x21,1 cm, 500 colour and black&white illus.
400 pp., 26,0x21,1 cm, 500 colour and black&white illus.
Traces the history of lace in fashion from its sixteenth-century origins to the present.
"Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum St. Gallen" offers a look at one of the world's finest collections of historical lace. It traces the development o...
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