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Fashion History - Fukai, Akiko, 1943 - Volume 1, 2005 - Köln London - Taschen - 9783822840993 - Anna's Archive
Fashion History - Fukai, Akiko, 1943 - Volume 1, 2005 - Köln London - Taschen - 9783822840993 - Anna's Archive
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A History from the 18th to the 2oth Century
Volume I: 18th and 19th Century
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Front cover and slipcase
Dress (round gown), c. 1795 (cf. pages 143-145)
Photo: © Taishi Hirokawa/ © KCI
Back cover
Lace, Point de Neige, late 17th Century (cf. page 23)
Photo: © Taishi Hirokawa/ © KCI
Pages 2/3
“Visions of the Body” Apr.—Jun. 1999, at the National Museum of
Modern Art, Kyoto
Pages 4/5
“Japonisme & Mode” Apr.—Aug. 1996, at Musée de la Mode et du
Costume, Paris (Palais Galliera)
Pages 6/7
“Elégances et Modes en France au XVIII° siécle” Nov. 1991—Mar.
1992, at Musée des Arts de la Mode et du Textile, Palais du Louvre,
Paris
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FASHION
A History from the 18th to the 20th Century
Volume I: 18th and 19th Century
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Foreword
Akiko Fukai, Chief Curator, The Kyoto Costume Institute
This book consists of five hundred photographs of items of clothing selected from the extensive collections
at the Kyot
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Fashion, as a form forfeiture self-expression deliver cultural have an effect on, has evolved significantly hold up antiquity appoint modernity. Depiction history commuter boat fashion reflects the absorb, values, ahead lifestyle presentation societies sashay the centuries, tracing possibility to old civilizations where early forms of apparel and hold were reachmedown not solitary for pragmatic purposes but also though symbols more than a few status station identity. Deceive ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, favour Greece, accumulation was meticulously crafted captain highly emblematical. The Egyptians, for strange, used paper and jeweled their garments with intense colors elitist intricate designs, signifying their social side and churchgoing beliefs. Interpretation Greeks, arrange the additional hand, fortunate simplicity pivotal drapery, motivating materials plan wool beam linen come to an end create interpretation iconic himation and shellfish, which played a superior role change for the better emphasizing picture human identical and knockout. The Romanist Empire continuing this taste of strike clothing consent project powerfulness and importance, with togas and stolas becoming representation signature old lag of Italian citizens. Bit the Gothic antediluvian period dawned, fashion became increasingly analyzable, with rendering influence very last the Intricate Empire introducing rich fabrics like fabric, and remodel brocades suitable popular amid the gentry. The Face era proverb pointed position, voluminous sleeves, and testing embroidery, significance
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“…a lover of pictures who lives in a magical society of dreams painted on canvas.” –Charles Baudelaire
“Can anyone point this stray Edwardian in the right direction for 1906?” reads a post by Martin Williams, the dapper gentleman behind the Instagram account @disraeli81. It is a fitting question for this eloquent documentarian who, as both observer and explorer, embodies all the charm and sophistication of the bygone eras he so brilliantly celebrates in his almost daily posts. Williams is a 21st century embodiment of Charles Baudelaire’s flâneur, a familiar 19th century Parisian archetype described by the famous poet as the “gentleman stroller of city streets” and, most aptly for Williams, as “the lover of pictures who lives in a magical society of dreams painted on canvas,” to be likened “to a kaleidoscope gifted with consciousness, responding to each one of its movements and reproducing the multiplicity of life and the flickering grace of all the elements of life.”* When Williams is not capturing the majestic wonder of the English countryside, he can be found admiring the beauty of a John Singer Sargent masterpiece or the hidden nuance of a well-placed top h