num_pages: 400
description: INFORMATION SHEETCostume jewelry is commonly understood to mean fashionable yet affordable adornments made from non-precious material. Originating in in mid-1700s France with the rise of the bourgeoise the earliest 'costume jewelry' mimicked fine jewelry styles. Since then costume jewelry has always been evolving. From Victorian sentimentalism to the mass-produced ornaments available today costume jewelry has developed into an artform in its own right. An encyclopedic study of its history is long overdue.Flush with expert information identification tips and historical anecdotes Adorning Fashion explores the development of costume jewelry across the past four centuries. The styles of each era - Victorian Edwardian Arts &amp; Crafts Jugenstil Art Nouveau and each decade of the twentieth century - are given individual attention. Production methods are also explained in depth. Alloys and gilded electroplating can mimic silver and gold while the refraction index of treated glass can to the untrained eye be mistaken for diamond.Adorning Fashion discusses the contributions of a remarkable roster of designers and innovators including Kokichi Mikimoto Arthur L. Liberty Carlo Giuliano Ren Lalique Elizabeth Bont the Castellani brothers Jean Fouquet Jean Desprs Fulco di Verdura Jean Schlumberger Salvador Dal Miriam Haskell Lina Baretti Countess Cissy Zoltowska Line Vautrin Kenneth Jay Lane Francisco Rebajes Diane Love Christian Dior Balenciaga Chanel Van Cleef &amp; Arpels Paco Rabanne Yves Saint Laurent Napier Haskell Trifari Brania Bulgari Versace and more.
language: English
title: Adorning Fashion: The History of Costume Jewellery to Modern Times
publisher: Acc Art Books