Contemporary Fashion

By Richard Martin and Lavinia Honeyman Porter Martin Ridge (ed.); Jesse A. Applegate

This reference guide to contemporary fashion features over 400 designers, milliners, footwear designers, companies and textile houses. Entries include biographical summary, bibliography and critical... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558621733
• ISBN13: 9781558621732
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Gale Cengage
• Length: 575 Pages
• Weight: 4.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.6" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

The only essential fashion reference book

Contemporary Fashion has more useful factual content thanany other fashion book ever published.It is regrettable that Gale/St. James could not have putmore of their resources into its presentation.Richard Martin, the only distinguished scholar in the field,edits a substantive encyclopedia of post-war fashion throughoutthe world, and the book falls pitifully short of its contentin its weak binding, design and the illustrations are poor, indeed.They may as well have released it as an un-illustrated work, for their scholarly text is accompanied by off-focus black and whitephotographs completely un-satisfactory in describing the the work and sometimes embarassing in their printing [negativesprinted backwards in at least two instances].It is a shame that an ess