The Thames and Hudson dictionary of fashion and fashion designers
By: Georgina O'Hara Callan.
Contributors: Callan, Georgina O'Hara.
Edition: Rev., expanded and updated ed.
Series: World of art
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Fashion -- Dictionaries; Clothing and dress -- History -- 19th century -- Dictionaries; Clothing and dress -- History -- 20th century -- Dictionaries
Genres: Dictionaries.
Other titles: Dictionary of fashion and fashion designers; Fashion and fashion designers
Description: "This guide to fashion provides in more than 1,200 entries detailed information on the life and work of every important designer from 1840 up to the present day, including not only couturiers but also shoe, hat and knitwear specialists, costume designers, jewelers and hairdressers.

It also covers the fashion media, photographers and illustrators, influential art movements, fashion terms, garment and accessory styles, technical processes, and every kind of fabric, as well as personalities who have influenced fashion or promoted a style. Extensively illustrated in both colour and black and white, international in scope and completely up to date, it is an essential sourcebook for designers, students, collectors and enthusiasts.

Its full cross-referencing and wide-ranging bibliography provide invaluable additional information."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-272).
Previous ed. published under title: The encyclopaedia of fashion.