ISBN10: 0300219148, ISBN13: 9780300219142, [publisher: Yale University Press] Hardcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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ISBN10: 0300219148, ISBN13: 9780300219142, [publisher: Yale University Press] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 0300219148, ISBN13: 9780300219142, [publisher: YALE] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 0300219148, ISBN13: 9780300219142, [publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven] Hardcover Hardcover. A wide-ranging and beautifully illustrated history of the fashion associated with the worlds most ubiquitous fabric Denim is one of the worlds favorite fabrics, and today it accounts for the largest segment of the clothing industry. The market for jeans alone is worth over 55 billion dollars. Experiments with denim by designers have helped to develop a vast vocabulary of denim styles beyond jeans that are now ingrained in fashions lexicon. This handsome book explores the multifaceted history of denim and examines the continually evolving relationship between it and high fashion. Prized for its durability and strength, denim began as an ideal fabric for workwear, most famously in the clothing produced by Levi Strauss & Co. for fortune hunters during the 19th-century California gold rush. Over the past 160 years, however, film, television, and advertising have helped transform denim into a symbol of youth, rebellion, sex, and the ever-ephemeral quality of cool. The fashion industry has also played a large role in the expansion of denim into casual and couture clothing. The Denim Council, which formed in the U.S. in the 1950s, promoted denim to an ever-widening circle of customers through the framework of the fashion industry, most notably with presentations during New York fashion weeks. Featuring previously unpublished archival material from the Denim ...
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ISBN10: 0300219148, ISBN13: 9780300219142, [publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven] Hardcover Hardcover. A wide-ranging and beautifully illustrated history of the fashion associated with the worlds most ubiquitous fabric Denim is one of the worlds favorite fabrics, and today it accounts for the largest segment of the clothing industry. The market for jeans alone is worth over 55 billion dollars. Experiments with denim by designers have helped to develop a vast vocabulary of denim styles beyond jeans that are now ingrained in fashions lexicon. This handsome book explores the multifaceted history of denim and examines the continually evolving relationship between it and high fashion. Prized for its durability and strength, denim began as an ideal fabric for workwear, most famously in the clothing produced by Levi Strauss & Co. for fortune hunters during the 19th-century California gold rush. Over the past 160 years, however, film, television, and advertising have helped transform denim into a symbol of youth, rebellion, sex, and the ever-ephemeral quality of cool. The fashion industry has also played a large role in the expansion of denim into casual and couture clothing. The Denim Council, which formed in the U.S. in the 1950s, promoted denim to an ever-widening circle of customers through the framework of the fashion industry, most notably with presentations during New York fashion weeks. Featuring previously unpublished archival material from the Denim ...
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Yale Univ Pr 2016 Hardcover New 176 pages. 10.00x8.00x0.75 inches.

ISBN10: 0300219148, ISBN13: 9780300219142, [publisher: Yale University Press] Hardcover Like New
[Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2016]

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