May 2012 Non-Fiction Book of the Month.
Published to tie in with an exhibition opening on 19th May and running throughout the year. A quite fascinating progress through recent women’s fashion for glamorous evening wear. A change that we follow from the highly structured and corseted New Look to the more recent trends of deconstruction and asymmetry with folded and pleated fabric showing new materials, radical new ways of wearing clothing. As ever with V & A costume books, the colours are rich and vibrant but I would just have loved a bigger book with more detail and I would have loved to see inside some of these costumes to look at their construction.
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The Golden Age of Couture: Paris & London 1947-57, Claire Wilcox
Fashion History: A History from the 18th to the 20th Century, Akiki Fukai
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