Fashion in the '70s

Author: Emmanuelle Dirix
Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781783130108
Category : Fashion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Whereas the 1970s opened with a fashion hangover from the 1960s, with looks such as mini skirts, bell-bottom trousers and the hippie look still enduring, the decade soon took on its own sartorial identity. The most prominent trends were the peasant look, glam (influenced by glam rock) and disco, popularised by the 1977 film 'Saturday Night Fever'. Many other individual fashion items went mainstream, none more so than platform shoes, flared trousers and the wrap dress. All of these styles and more are included in 1970s 'Fashion: the definitive sourcebook'. The historicism that had started in fashion in the 1960s continued in the Seventies with Art Nouveau and Art Deco-inspired styles championed by Biba, but the Laura Ashley pastoral style was also popular. Finally, the emergence of punk fashion towards the closing years of the decade paved the way for a new aesthetic that rejected traditional gender, beauty and fashion roles and paved the way for alternative fashions since.

70s Style and Design

Author: Dominic Lutyens
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
Once dismissed as the decade of avocado suites, the 1970s are now being enthusiastically mined for trends from the fashion, music, literature and vibe of the time. This work presents the 70s as an important period in the creative arts, which united such defining trends as the Art Deco craze of the 1920s and 1930s and the Pop movement of the 1960s.

Fashion Accessories

Author: John Peacock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500019979
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
A companion volume to 20th Century Fashion and Men's Fashion offers more than two thousand drawings surveying the men's and women's clothing that has mattered in this century, as well as all the accessories.

1930s Fashion: The Definitive Sourcebook

Author: Charlotte Fiell
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1787398900
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 512

Book Description
From the turbulence of the 1930s emerged the Golden Age of Glamour. Framed by two world-changing events – the economic crash of 1929 and the outbreak of the Second World War – the 1930s saw new looks emerge and thrive, despite economic and social uncertainty. This was the decade of the bias cut, the statement shoulder, the puff sleeve, the tea dress, the fur shrug and the floor-length evening gown. It was also the era that saw Hollywood challenge Paris's fashion crown and its stars become fashion icons, signalling a new grown-up direction in womenswear design. Packed with over 500 original photographs, illustrations and sketches from the decade, this is an essential guide for any fashion historian, student or vintage enthusiast. These classic images have been selected from popular fashion publications of the day, mail-order catalogues and Hollywood studio press shots, including material from Chic Parisien, Harper's Bazaar, Sears, La Femme Chic and film studios Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Paramount. Authored and edited by renowned design historian, Charlotte Fiell, this volume also contains an authoritative introduction by fashion historian, Emmanuelle Dirix, as well as the biographies of the key designers and fashion houses of the period.

High Fashion

Author: Emmanuelle Dirix
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500518076
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
What defined the way women dressed in the 1930s? When did haute couture become off-the-peg? How did economic highs and lows influence style in the 1980s? High Fashion answers these questions and more by exploring fashion design in the 20th century, one decade at a time. Each chapter looks at the significant stylistic changes that occurred in one decade and places them in a wider cultural and socioeconomic context. The designers whose work best represents their era are profiled and their key looks deconstructed, from the vertical silhouette of the 1900s to minimalism in the 1990s. High Fashion combines thoughtful analysis with a carefully curated selection of archive images to create an invaluable resource for fashion students and a fascinating journey through 20th-century style for fashionistas. It reveals how styles have changed, what those changes tell us about individuals and society at that time, and how our current relationship with fashion was formed.

Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible

Author: Tim Gunn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451643861
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
A meticulously researched history of Western fashion shares authoritative insights into everything from suits and sportswear to high heels and blue jeans while assessing the contributions of revolutionary designers.

As Seen in Vogue

Author: Daniel Delis Hill
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896726161
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Documents the history of "Vogue" magazine over the course of the twentieth century, and features more than six hundred advertising images that provide insights into the evolution in American fashion, society, and culture since the magazine's debut in 1893.

The 70s

Author: Sarah Gilmour
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Traces changes in fashion during the 40s and 50s including military styles, utility clothes, Dior glamour, and the modernist look.

Colour Forecasting

Author: Tracy Diane
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405143770
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
The colour forecasting process is a major driving force in the fashion and textile industries but is complex, highly intuitive and little understood. This textbook for students of fashion and design discusses the development of the various driving forces of fashion, when colour forecasting began and how it has developed to its present day state. Colour terminology and some of the more subjective tools used by colour forecasters are explained, and their strengths and weaknesses are compared. Also, a model is given of the colour forecasting process and this is discussed in detail. Finally, readers are shown how forecasting methodologies are used to develop 'colour stories'.

The Image of Librarians in Cinema, 1917-1999

Author: Ray Tevis
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476611459
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
From its earliest days to the present, the onscreen image of the librarian has remained largely the same. A silent 1921 film set the precedent for two female librarian characters: a dowdy spinster wears glasses and a bun hairstyle, and an attractive young woman is overworked and underpaid. Silent films, however, employed a variety of characteristics for librarians, showed them at work on many different tasks, and featured them in a range of dramatic, romantic, and comedic situations. The sound era (during which librarians appeared in more than 200 films) frequently exaggerated these characteristics and situations, strongly influencing the general image of librarians. This chronologically arranged work analyzes the stereotypical image of librarians, male and female, in primarily American and British motion pictures from the silent era to the 21st century. The work briefly describes each film, offering some critical commentary, and then examines its librarian, considering every aspect of the total character from socio-economic conditions and motivations for leaving or not leaving the library, to personal attributes (such as clothing, hair, and age) and entanglements with the opposite sex, to commonly used props, plot situations and lines ("Shush!"). The work comments on whether librarians and library work are depicted accurately and analyzes the development of the public's image of a librarian. The accompanying filmography lists librarian characters and notes stereotypes such as buns and eyeglasses. With bibliography and index.