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Dress in France in the eighteenth century / Madeleine Delpierre ; translated by Caroline Beamish

Clothing and fashion. Female fashion; Male fashion; Children's fashion -- Underwear -- Accessories. Accessories worn on the body; Accessories carried in the hand -- Fabrics and their decoration -- ...
Vogue

For These Women of Color, Historical Dressing Is a Modern Art Form

Vintage clothing is inescapable at the moment. Red carpets and Instagram feeds are filled with archival Versace (worn in the last year by Jenna Ortega, Bella Hadid, and Zendaya), Jean Paul Gaultier ...
Daily Press

No wilting flowers: Colonial Williamsburg highlights the diverse roles of 18th-century women

In the heart of Colonial Williamsburg, the different roles women played in 18th-century society are evident. There are costumed interpreters like Deirdre Jones Cardwell and Katharine Pittman, who tell ...
The Conversation

‘I want people to be afraid of the women I dress’: the celebrated – and often controversial – designs of Alexander McQueen

Peter McNeil will lead a tour for Academy Travel to view the McQueen exhibition in February 2023. Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse was first conceived at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Fashion and orientalism : dress, textiles and culture from the 17th to the 21st century / Adam Geczy

1. Early orientalism and the barbaresque : Luxury textiles and the beginnings of the silk trade -- Venice -- Textiles in Western Europe -- Cotton and chintz -- Charles II and the origins of the vest - ...