REED, PAULA 50 FASHION LOOKS THAT CHANGED THE 60S
Fifty Fashion Looks That Changed the 1960s
By:Design Museum
Reed, Paula
Series:Design Museum Fifty
Publisher:Octopus Publishing Group
Imprint:Conran Octopus Ltd
ISBN/EAN:1840916044 / 9781840916041
Format:Hardback
Pagination:112 pages, 60 colour and black and white photographs
Dimensions:218 x 160 mm, 385 grams
Country of Pub.:United Kingdom
Pub Date:01/10/2012
The Design Museum and fashion guru Paula Reed present Fifty Fashion Looks that Changed the 1960s. The most exciting, influential and definitive looks of one of the most significant decades in fashion! The Design Museum's mission is to celebrate, enterain and inform. It is the world's leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form from furniture to fashion, and carchitecture to graphics.
It is working to place design at the centre of contemporary culture and demonstrates both the richness of the creativity to be found in all forms of design, and its importance. Building on the international success of the Design Museum Fifty series, including Fifty Shoes that Changed the World, Fifty Bags that Changed the World and Fifty Hats that Changed the World, this beautifully designed book - curated in the series by fashion guru Paula Reed - takes a fresh look at key fashion pieces from the 1960s. Featuring Mary Quant's miniskirts, Andre Courreges' Moon Girls, denim-clad hippies and Celia Birtwell's Romantic Peasants, this book captures and explains every influential look of the decade.
For anyone looking to buy vintage pieces to add to their wardrobes of contemporary items, this authoritative and inspiring book will prove to be an invaluable source of reference.
