fashion and art

Pioneers in the fashion industry have launched worldwide trends with their styles. Women in Fashion introduces readers to some of the most influential fashion designers, including Vera Wang, Tracy Reese, and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.

Explores how art and fashion were linked in the early twentieth century, revealing a logic of fashion based on the tension between originality and reproduction that influenced the art historical issues of the period.

Examines the history of clothes as art, focusing on the response of artists to the development of fashion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, looking at the work of specific artists, and including a selection of related quotations and writings.

An illustrated history of wearable art, tracing the development of aesthetic dress from the 1960s into the twenty-first century, and introducing some of wearable art's leading practitioners.