Diane Von Furstenberg, Vivienne Westwood, Sarah Burton, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Donna Karan, and Iris van Herpen are among the great women designers to emerge in the last few decades. We now live in an age when no one would dare call them that little seamstress, as Paul Poiret disdainfully referred to Gabrielle Coco Chanel more than a century ago. The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion highlights early innovative and contemporary designers working in a variety of materials and genres. This unique volume profiles widely-known early fashion vanguards such as Jeanne Lanvin, Callot Soeurs, and Madeleine Vionnet, as well as underrepresented women who revolutionized fashion from the mid-1700s to the present. More than one hundred works--including street fashion, ready-to-wear, traditional, and haute couture--celebrate women designers' concepts of dress and beauty. Through the work of more than fifty individual style makers, The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion illuminates issues of representation, creativity, and distinctiveness, as well as the labor challenges surrounding fashion today.

About the Author
Petra Slinkard is the Nancy B. Putnam curator of fashion and textiles at the Peabody Essex Museum. Madelief Hohe is curator of the collection of fashion and costumes at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague. Paula Richter is curator of exhibitions and research and Lan Morgan is assistant curator for exhibitions and research at the Peabody Essex Museum.


Book Information
ISBN 9780847868223
Author Petra Slinkard
Format Hardback
Page Count 160
Imprint Rizzoli International Publications
Publisher Rizzoli International Publications