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list price: $39.95
edition:Hardcover
category: Design
published: Oct 2001
ISBN:9780774808262
publisher:
UBC Press
Description
The 1950s were the golden years of haute couture, captured by iconic images of glamorous models wearing dramatic clothes. Yet the real women who wore these clothes adapted them to suit their own tastes, altered them to extend their life, and often could not bear to part with them long after the dresses had outlived their use. This gorgeously illustrated book demonstrates why so many of these designs are still in existence and why we are fascinated by them fifty years later.
Contributor Notes
Alexandra Palmer is the Nora E. Vaughan Fashion Costume Curator at the Royal Ontario Museum and Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Programme in Art History at York University. She has lectured at the Parsons School of Design in New York and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has been a consultant and curator for museums and galleries across North America.
Awards
- Short-listed, Raymond Klibansky Prize, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Science
- Short-listed, Millia Davenport Award, Costume Society of America
- Winner, Clio Award (Ontario), Canadian Historical Association
- Winner, Tom Fairley Award, Editor’s Association of Canada
- Runner-up, Alcuin Citation for excellence in book design in Canada, Alcuin Society
