Fashioning Society: A Hundred Years of Haute Couture by Six Designers

by Karl Ómar Aspelund

The hundred years of fashion from the 1860s to the 1970s was a time when a succession of haute couture designers-most notably, Charles Worth, Paul Poiret, Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent-were the arbiters of fashion, and their creations the weapon of choice for power-seeking members of the aristocracy and upper class. Fashioning Society explores the ways in which high-fashion designers and their maisons...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563675978
• ISBN13: 9781563675973
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Fairchild Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.1"