Icons of vintage fashion
Subtitle: definitive designer classics at auction 1900-2000
By: Pénélope Blanckaert, Angèle Rincheval Hernu ; under the direction of Caroline Levesque ; translated from the French by Denise Jacobs and Lenora Ammon
Contributors: Rincheval Hernu, Angèle; Jacobs, Denise; Ammon, Lenora; Levesque, Caroline
Edition: Abrams ed.
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 503
ISBN-13: 9781419710421
Subjects: History; Fashion; Women's clothing; Collectors and collecting; Fashion designers
Description: This is an encyclopedic visual journey through women's fashion that features more than 1,000 of the most remarkable vintage items ever sold on the resale market. An extravagantly illustrated, decade by decade survey of fashion history, through the lens of the most extraordinary vintage clothing and bags.  Includes estimates and auction sale prices.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 1900s-1920s the dawn of a new century: liberated fashion; title: 1930s it's all about the bias; title: 1940s haute couture during the war years; title: 1950s the golden age; title: 1960s the swinging sixties; title: 1970s sweet liberty; title: 1980s glamour and the avant-garde; title: 1990s the advent of minimalism; title: Accessories the handbag.