300 years of fashion : fashion forward : collections of the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
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300 years of fashion : fashion forward : collections of the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
Rizzoli, 2017
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Trois siècles de mode : fashion forward
Fashion forward : three centuries of fashion
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Catalog of the exhibition "Fashion forward : three centuries of fashion" held at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, Apr. 7-Aug. 14, 2016
Originally published by Musée des Arts Décoratifs in 2016
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This handsome volume is published to accompany a major exhibition that chronicles fashion from the seventeenth century to the present. Featuring three hundred iconic pieces, it highlights key moments in fashion history and provides new insight into the designers, patrons, and ground-breaking techniques and materials. It also explores how fashion has always been intertwined with both fine art and the decorative arts. Many of the great couturiers were known for this artistic cross-pollination, including such towering figures as Jeanne Lanvin, Madeleine Vionnet, Gabrielle Chanel, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent. Re-created here are a number of fashion inflection points illustrating fashion s elective affinities with other disciplines. Eighteenth-century wood panelling, scenic wallpapers by Zuber, and Paul Iribe s drawings for Paul Poiret, among other examples, provide perfect settings for fashion s stylistic metamorphoses culminating in the effervescence and eclecticism of today s global fashion scene.
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