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A fashion for extravagance

Hardcover • 1985 • English

A fashion for extravagance: Art deco fabrics and fashions

By Bowman, Sara

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About the book

In the Art Deco period art, design and fashion all enjoyed a surge of glorious inventiveness. Fashion, inspired from the centre of haute couture in Paris, took off in revolutionary new directions. Dress could be decorated with intricate, heavily beaded embroidery, or bold pictorial designs or dramatic geometric patterns. Nothing was too exotic to be tried.The division between fashion and art was very narrow, and well known artists such as Raoul Dufy and Sonia Delaunay turned their skills to desi...Show more

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ISBN

9780713525595

Publisher

Bell & Hyman

Published year

1985

Language

English

Original title

A fashion for extravagance

Format

Hardcover

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