MBR: The Fashion Shelf

The Fashion Shelf

Emerging Fashion Designers 1
Sally Congdon-Martin
Schiffer
4880 Lower Valley Road, Atglen, PA 19310
9780764336003, $39.99, www.schifferbooks.com

Emerging Fashion Designers 1 packs in nearly three hundred color
images of fresh creations from collections by recent grads of sixteen
of the most respected fashion design programs at universities across
the country. This anthology presents a brief review of each designer,
including inspiration, materials, and work examples, then organizes
garments alphabetically by designer and graphically by school. Any
college-level collection strong in contemporary fashion design will
find this packed with reference to the latest fashion trends.

Thames & Hudson
500 - 5th Avenue, New York NY 10110
www.thamesandhudsonusa.com

Claude Montana and Marielle Cro's CLAUDE MONTANA: FASHION RADICAL
(9780500515396, $50.00) packs in over a hundred color illustrations as
it presents the French fashion designer's haute couture collections
and works. It considers the basic practices that reflect Montana's
unique perspective and style, includes conversations with Claude
Montana himself, and captures the new image and culture the Montana
models embody. From Montana's exaggerations of the proportions of his
clothes to his preferred choices in cut, color and style, this is an
in-depth study no fashion arts collection can be without. Fashion
collections interested in history will welcome Jonathan Walford's
FORTIES FASHION: FROM SIREN SUITS TO THE NEW LOOK (9780500288979,
$29.95) packs in over 200 illustrations - most in color - to provide a
definitive history of fashion in the 1940s. A range of fashions and
styles that created trends around the world are surveyed by a fashion
specialist who shows how fashion was considered an artistic expression
of its times. From street fashion to attire for air raids, this
provides a wide range of popular styles and is a fine addition to any
interested in evolving fashion trends of the times.

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