Art Nouveau Fashion
Clare Rose
The Art Nouveau movement overlapped with late Arts and Crafts in
the 1890s and early modernism in the 1910s, combining the exquisite
workmanship and natural forms of the former with the innovative
materials, forms and practices associated with the latter. Art
Nouveau Fashion provides a fascinating introduction to the style,
defining it, and placing it in design history by focusing on a
number of important designers – Worth, Lucile, Paquin, Poiret – and
key topics, such as clients and artists, jewellery and accessories,
and advertising. Art Nouveau fashion questioned conventional gender
norms with daring flamboyance, presenting women in suits,
influenced by tailored menswear, for the street and overtly
seductive lingerie for the boudoir. Fashionable corsets manipulated
female bodies into increasingly artificial forms, while advertising
seduced consumers with images of scantily clad women. The
movement’s radicalism and openness to diverse design influences
directly influenced the counter-culture of the late 1960s,
inspiring boutiques in London’s fashionable Carnaby Street and San
Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury. Art Nouveau fashion continues to
resonate today – and this book presents it with a wealth of unseen
images and historic sources.
Gebundenes Buch, 144 Seiten, Format 22,9 x 1,9 x 27,9 cm, engl.
Text,
Best.-Nr.: VAM012
