Fashion: A Timeline in Photographs: 1850 to Today

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One of America's premiere fashion historians now offers an unrivaled andexceptional fashion resource. Fashion: A Timeline in Photographsis an immersive volume--a 150-year visualodyssey--tracks year by year, decade by decade, the metamorphosingfashion silhouettes up to the present-day. With over 700 photographs, almostall of which are rare--either never before published or rarely seen.A definitive and beautifully illustrated visual history of fashion--from thecrinoline-supported billowing skirts and enormous ballooning sleeves of the late19th century to the hemlines that fell along with the crashing stock market in1929; through the shocking pants styles of the '30s and short A-line shifts of the'60s; through the designer-driven styles of the '80s, '90s, and today.

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"Over the past decade, street style has become so ubiquitous it's nearly lost all meaning. Fashion: A Timeline in Photographsbrings a fresh perspective to the phenomenon. With a scrapbook feel, it exhibits style through candid pictures taken from the 19th century to present - the most notable dating to a time before digital cameras and the Internet. its deliberate elimination of calculated camerawork captures a true depiction of how people dress."
-SURFACE MAGAZINE

"Caroline Rennolds Milbank has taken on the herculean and seemingly impossible task of chronicling fashion year by year via images that span over a centuryall accompanied by very brief but enlightening text. What this feat of perseverance accomplishes is that it provides amazing details of fashion that might have previously gone unnoticed for many readers.Without question this is a book to be read, pored over, and read again if you wish to really absorb all that is included. There is an almost unending amount of information here the likes of which this reviewer has never come upon. . .this is a must for those who are obsessed with the progression of fashion as well as those who are in need of a text dedicated to how fashion has evolved since 1850."
-NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS

"FASHION A Timeline in Photographs:1850 to Today is a cunning combination of the scholarly-and the blur that Fashion persists in running along. . .The book's laser focus on fashion since just before the Civil War until today, illustrates each year's fashion "moment" with photographs and commentary. Harold Koda writes the foreword, solidifying the book's importance as to how we look at & in fashion. Milbank's culling of photographs-which must have been thousands and thousands, or more, is quite brilliant. This book is a heavenly marriage of fashion and photography, and we are immersed, and we are seduced, blissfully drowning in its beauty and weight."
-LITTLE AUGURY BLOG

Fashion A Timeline in Photographs: 1850 to Today is a labour of love by one of the most reliable and informed fashion scholars in the United States, Caroline Rennolds Milbank. . .Costume designers, fashion designers, stylists and editors will find this book as invaluable as the general reader will find it engrossing."
-THE BUSINESS OF FASHION

Author Bio

Caroline Rennolds Milbank is a fashion historian and the author ofthe books Couture, New York Fashion, The Couture Accessory, and Resort Fashion.She has contributed essays to the Costume Institute catalogues Poiret and Chanel,and has been a costume curator for exhibitions at the Museum at the FashionInstitute of Technology, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Clark ArtInstitute. Harold Koda is Curator in Charge at The Costume Institute at TheMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York.