Exploding Fashion
Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Twentieth Century Fashion
Published on 20. October 2021
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-94-014-7605-8 (ISBN)
Description
Exploding Fashion examines the impact of innovative pattern-cutting in several key examples of 20th century fashion design. With over 200 illustrations, it 'explodes' designs by 6 game-changing fashion designers from the world's leading fashion houses, and reverse engineers them in order to understand how they work. Written by a curator and professor at Central Saint Martins, London's premier college of art and design, this is the first comprehensive exploration of how a traditional design process can enter into a dialogue with new concepts, illuminating haute couture and pret-a-porter methods for a visually-driven digital age.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Tielt
Belgium
Illustrations
40 Illustrations, black and white; 180 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 265 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
1470 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-014-7605-8 (9789401476058)
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Person
Alistair O'Neill is a writer, curator and professor of Fashion History and Theory at Central Saint Martins (UAL). He is a member of the UAL Photography and the Archive Research Centre and sits on the editorial board of Fashion Theory. Since the implementation of its contemporary exhibitions program in 2008, he has been working as a curatorial consultant for Somerset House Trust, focusing on its fashion exhibitions. His research interests include 20th-century and contemporary fashion; fashion photography in relation to visual culture; fashion curation and histories of display; London as a centre for fashion cultures.
Content
CONTENTS
Introduction
The Rationale 8
The Process 12
Central Saint Martins Research Team Members 15
SECTION A: MAKE, UNMAKE, REMAKE
Chapter 1: Methods and Making
From 2-D to 3-D to 3-D animation 20
Chapter 2: Dress Summaries and Museum Statements
International Dress Collections: Museum Statements 68
Victoria and Albert Museum, London - Claire Wilcox
Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris 70
Myriam Teissier
Twentieth-Century Fashion Designs and their Designers:
Five Case Studies - Madeleine Vionnet 72
Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 86
Andrew Bolton
Charles James 88
Palais Galliera, Musee de la Mode de la Ville de Paris 104
Miren Arzalluz & Veronique Belloir
Cristobal Balenciaga 106
Museum at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology), New York 120
Valerie Steele
Halston 122
Kyoto Costume Institute, Japan 138
Rie Nii
Comme des Garcons 140
The Gusset: The Common Denominator 154
Dress Patterns 158
Introduction
The Rationale 8
The Process 12
Central Saint Martins Research Team Members 15
SECTION A: MAKE, UNMAKE, REMAKE
Chapter 1: Methods and Making
From 2-D to 3-D to 3-D animation 20
Chapter 2: Dress Summaries and Museum Statements
International Dress Collections: Museum Statements 68
Victoria and Albert Museum, London - Claire Wilcox
Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris 70
Myriam Teissier
Twentieth-Century Fashion Designs and their Designers:
Five Case Studies - Madeleine Vionnet 72
Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 86
Andrew Bolton
Charles James 88
Palais Galliera, Musee de la Mode de la Ville de Paris 104
Miren Arzalluz & Veronique Belloir
Cristobal Balenciaga 106
Museum at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology), New York 120
Valerie Steele
Halston 122
Kyoto Costume Institute, Japan 138
Rie Nii
Comme des Garcons 140
The Gusset: The Common Denominator 154
Dress Patterns 158