High style : masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
This lavishly illustrated volume is the first comprehensive publication on the Brooklyn Museum's internationally renowned historic costume collection. --From publisher description
Print Book, English, ©2010
Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press, New York, New Haven [Conn.], ©2010
Catalog
256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
9781588393623, 9781588393630, 9780300155228, 9780300212310, 1588393623, 1588393631, 0300155220, 0300212313
449854691
Historical fashions 1760s-1890s
The house of Worth 1860s-1930s
French couture 1880s-1980s
Elsa Schiaparelli 1930s-1940s
American women designers 1920s-1970s
American men designers 1930s-1980s
Charles James 1930s-1950s
Rarities 1600s-1960s
Shoes 1600s-1970s
Published in conjunction with an exhibition on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 5-Aug. 15, 2010, and at the Brooklyn Museum, May 7-Aug. 1, 2010