Vintage Fashion
Collecting and wearing designer classics
Author: Emma Baxter-Wright and Zandra Rhodes Series: Welbeck Vintage
A visual journey through the fashion of the decades, Vintage Fashion shows you how to identify key designers, shapes, textiles, stitching, and other details and characteristics that define the most influential pieces of the twentieth century (up to and including the 1990s).
A visual journey through the fashion of the decades, showing you how to identify key designers and details and characteristics that define the most influential pieces of the twentieth century (up to and including the 1990s). The book concludes with a shopping guide.
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A visual journey through the fashion of the decades, Vintage Fashion shows you how to identify key designers, shapes, textiles, stitching, and other details and characteristics that define the most influential pieces of the twentieth century (up to and including the 1990s).
A visual journey through the fashion of the decades, showing you how to identify key designers and details and characteristics that define the most influential pieces of the twentieth century (up to and including the 1990s). The book concludes with a shopping guide.
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Foreword by Zandra Rhodes
A visual journey through the fashion of the decades, Vintage Fashion shows you how to identify key designers, shapes, textiles, stitching, and other details and characteristics that define the most influential pieces of the twentieth century (up to and including the 1990s). Each decade ends with a 'key looks' spread showing an at-a-glance view of the important shapes, colours and looks that defined the era.The book concludes with a shopping guide, which offers pointers on sourcing and caring for original vintage pieces, along with a glossary of fashion terms and the century's most collectable designers.About the Author
Emma Baxter-Wright has taught fashion journalism at University of the Arts London and UCA. She has contributed to many publications including the New York Observer, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire, and is the bestselling author of Little Book of Chanel and Chanel in 55 Objects. Emma lives in London.
A visual journey through the fashion of the decades, showing you how to identify key designers and details and characteristics that define the most influential pieces of the twentieth century (up to and including the 1990s). The book concludes with a shopping guide. Foreword by Zandra Rhodes A visual journey through the fashion of the decades, Vintage Fashion shows you how to identify key designers, shapes, textiles, stitching, and other details and characteristics that define the most influential pieces of the twentieth century (up to and including the 1990s). Each decade ends with a 'key looks' spread showing an at-a-glance view of the important shapes, colours and looks that defined the era. The book concludes with a shopping guide, which offers pointers on sourcing and caring for original vintage pieces, along with a glossary of fashion terms and the century's most collectable designers.
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