The women who revolutionized fashion : 250 years of design /

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 disdainfu...

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Other Authors: Slinkard, Petra (Editor, Contributor), Hohé, Madelief (Contributor), Morgan, Lan (Contributor), Richter, Paula Bradstreet (Contributor), Syme, Rachel (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Salem, Massachusetts : Rizzoli Electa ; Peabody Essex Museum, 2020.
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Table of Contents:
  • Director's foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Women wearing women
  • Altering the pattern: changing times and new roles in fashion
  • At the cutting edge: American fashion as catalyst for change
  • The women who revolutionized fashion
  • Elizabeth Keckley
  • Maria Theresa Baldwin Hollander
  • Maria Monaci Gallenga
  • Lucy Duff Gordon
  • Gabrielle Chanel
  • Jeanne Paquin / Callot Soeurs
  • Mies van Os
  • Jeanne Adéle Bernard Sacerdote
  • Madeleine Vionnet
  • Madame Grés / Jeanne Lanvin
  • Adele Simpson
  • Lucille Manguin / Margarèt
  • Maggy Rouff
  • Hattie Carnegie / Sally Milgrim
  • Valentina
  • Elizabeth Hawes
  • Elsa Schiaparelli
  • Dahava Kreisberg-Krochmal / Nina Ricci / Marie-Louise Carven
  • Ann Lowe
  • Tina Leser
  • Rose Marie Reid / Carolyn Schnurer
  • Bonnie Cashin
  • Claire McCardell
  • Pauline Trigère
  • Faize Kuhar / Sevim Baban
  • Mary Quant
  • Emmy van Leersum / Marianne David / Alice Edeling
  • Armi Ratia / Vuokko Eskolin-Nurmesniemi
  • Diane von Fürstenberg
  • Sonia Rykiel
  • Frankie Welch
  • Alice Pollock
  • Jacqueline Jacobson
  • Laura Ashley
  • Lily Henket-Conemans
  • Zandra Rhodes
  • Jean Muir
  • Anne-Marie Beretta
  • Hanae Mori
  • Céline Vipiana
  • Donna Karan
  • Vivienne Westwood
  • Norma Kamali
  • Ann Demeulemeester
  • Marielle Bolier
  • Vivienne Tam
  • Betsey Johnson
  • Miuccia Prada
  • Mada van Gaans
  • Phoebe Philo
  • Kale Mulleavy / Laura Mulleavy
  • Isabel Toledo
  • Carolina Herrera
  • Rei Kawakubo
  • Natalie Chanin
  • Maria Grazia Chiuri
  • Mary-Kate Olsen / Ashley Olsen
  • Stella McCartney
  • Mary Katrantzou
  • Clare Waight Keller
  • Iris van Herpen
  • Kathleen Kye
  • Jamie Okuma
  • Becca McCharen-Tran
  • Carla Fernández
  • Katharine Hamnett
  • Tracy Reese.