Book cover for 20th-Century Fashion in Detail by Claire Wilcox, Valerie D Mendes, Oriole Cullen, Jenny Lister and Sonnet Stanfill
2018 Released
224 Pages
3-4 Hours
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Thames & HudsonISBN 9780500294109

20th-Century Fashion in Detail reveals the elaborate embroidery, intricate pleats, and daring cuts that make up some of the most beautiful garments in the twentieth-century fashion collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, one of the world's top fashion and design museums. Authors Claire Wilcox and Valerie D. Mendes, leading fashion experts from the V&A, have written a book that will be an invaluable resource for students, collectors, and designers.

Including exquisite haute-couture pieces, from sequined Chanel ensembles to embellished Dior evening gowns, this revised and expanded edition features more than 30 new garments. Each piece is accompanied by detail photography and line drawings showing its complete construction. An extraordinary exploration of the techniques used by couturiers, 20th-Century Fashion in Detail will delight all followers of fashion.

Claire Wilcox

Claire Wilcox, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist and addiction psychiatrist, associate professor of translational neuroscience at the Mind Research Network, frequent guest on the Food Junkies podcast, and adjunct faculty at the University of New Mexico. She has worked in a variety of clinical settings, including a medical weight loss clinic and an eating disorder treatment facility, and she completed an internal medicine residency before her psychiatry residency. She has been awarded National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants for her research in addiction neuroscience, and has published numerous academic works, including a textbook on food addiction titled Food Addiction, Obesity, andDisorders of Overeating. She was associate editor of the New England Journal of Medicine Journal Watch from 2017-2020, blogs regularly on Psychology Today, and has written for Santa Fe Reporter and Science in the News, among others.

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Valerie D Mendes

Valerie D. Mendes, formerly Head of Fashion and Textiles at the V&A, has curated exhibitions on Zika Ascher, Pierre Cardin, John French, and Salvatore Ferragamo. She is the author of numerous books including The House of Worth: Portrait of an Archive (with Amy de la Haye).

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Oriole Cullen

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Jenny Lister

Jenny Lister is a curator of textiles and fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, specializing in the nineteenth century. She was a contributor to the highly acclaimed book May Morris: Arts & Crafts Designer.

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Sonnet Stanfill

Sonnet Stanfill is a Curator of Fashion at the V&A.

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