Fashion: The Whole Story

Marnie Fogg, Valerie Steele

£25.00

‘A serious yet readable history that takes the reader from the togas and tunics of early civilizations to the age of ASOS’ Telegraph

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Overview

Fashion: The Whole Story provides a global history of fashion and traces the evolution of fashion design period by period and trend by trend.

- Organized chronologically, covering Greco-Roman draped clothing and the silk court dress of the Chinese Tang dynasty through to contemporary sportswear designers and Japanese street fashion
- Places key fashion pieces in the context of social and cultural developments, with historical timelines highlighting important influences and events
- Takes you inside the process of creating haute couture, from concept to catwalk
- Written by an international team of experts led by Marnie Fogg

Reviews

'A serious yet readable history that takes the reader from the togas and tunics of early civilizations to the age of ASOS'
Telegraph

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Book Details

Format: Flexibound

Edition Type: Revised

Size: 24.5 x 17.2 cm

Extent: 576 pp

Publication date: 8 October 2020

ISBN: 9780500296011

About the Author

Marnie Fogg is a fashion expert and media consultant, and the bestselling author of The Fashion Swatch Book and Why You Can Go Out Dressed Like That. Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.