Fashion game changers : reinventing the 20th-century silhouette

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"Fashion Game Changers traces radical innovations in Western fashion design from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Challenging the traditional silhouettes of their day, fashion designers such as Madeleine Vionnet and Cristóbal Balenciaga began to liberate the female body from the close-fitting hourglass forms which dominated European and American fashion, instead enveloping bodies in more autonomous garments which often took insp...

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ISBN:

9781474279048

Description:

292 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cm

Notes:

Published in association with the exhibition 'Game Changers: Reinventing the 20th-century Silhouette', Momu -- Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp, March 18, 2016-August 14, 2016
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

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1. Fashion Game Changers: Where MoMu and MUDE Meet, Kaat Debo and Barbara Coutinho 2. Avant-garde Vision: Cristóbal Balenciaga's Innovation and Influence, Miren Arzalluz 3. Self-taught and Experimental: A New Approach to the Body, Karen Van Godtsenhoven 4. Kindred Spirits: Japanese and Belgian Designers in the MUDE Collection, Anabela Becho 5. Japonism in Western Fashion: Revolution in Silhouette from Poiret to Yamamoto, Akiko Fukai 6. Innovation in French Couture: The Radical Becomes Classic, from Callot Soeurs to Chanel, Olivier Saillard 7. Cultural Liberation Springing from Physical Liberation: Reception Study of the 1980s Avant-garde, Hettie Judah List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Control Number:

2102452

Other Authors:

Arzalluz, Miren, 1978- editor
Debo, Kaat, editor
Godtsenhoven, Karen van, editor
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