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- Brand: V & A Publishing
- Model: Stanfill Sonnet
- ISBN: 978-1851774999
New York Fashion
Focusing on up-and-coming designers and their contributions to the changing fashion industry in the vibrant climate of New York city, New York Fashion explores the city’s importance as a fashion capital in the 21st century.
Tracing New York’s emergence after the Second World War
as a major international fashion centre and looking at the important designers of the period, including Claire McCardell and Geoffrey Beene, it also takes in the last quarter of the 20th century which was dominated by the ready-to-wear empires of designers such as Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger.
In the past five years a group of young, talented New York based designers have found critical and commercial success internationally.
About the Author
Sonnet Stanfill is a curator in the Department of Furniture, Textiles & Fashion at the V&A, specialising in contemporary fashion. She curated the highly successful exhibition of the work of Ossie Clark in 2004.
Review
‘Informative and well illustrated book ... Stanfill has succeeded in presenting American fashion as intriguing, rather than bland’ --Suzy Menkes, International Herald Tribune, 2007
`Colourful, visually exciting book’ --The New York Observer, 2007
‘This book is a ticket backstage in the fashion world’ - Country House
New York Fashion
Specifications | |
Size | 8.5 x 0.62 x 10.63 inches |
Weight | 2.05 pounds |
Pages | 128 |
Format | Hardcover |
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