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Five decades of glamorous, royalty-free designs include classic costumes by top designers, including Chanel, St. Laurent, Courrèges, Mary Quant, Halston, Laura Ashley, Carolina Herrera, Galliano, and many others. All carefully researched and meticulously rendered, the designs are appropriate for either computer or traditional cut-and-paste use. 140 full-color figures.
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Nicole Burda
reviewed 140 Great Fashion Designs, 1950-2000, CD-ROM and Book on September 03, 2008 140 Great Fashion Designs, 1950–2000, CD-ROM and Book
DeJean's thesis is that the modern luxury market originated from the reign of Louis XIV, "The Sun King."
She backs up the idea beautifully chapter by chapter, showcasing how today's luxury goods and services from champagne to fine dining to lattes to fancy hair styles to floor length mirrors all had their origins in his reign.
And not just they happened to develop in that time period - but that his main political/economic goal for his administration was to make France dominate in the luxury markets, and that he put his money where his mouth was, paying for all sorts of imported goods to create demand and then sponsoring bringing those trades into France, selling the idea to the French and the rest of the world that the place to buy diamonds, mirrors, high heels, champagne, etc., was France.
He was the Sun King both in appearance as he sashayed around Versailles wearing clothes studded with hundreds of diamonds, but also a true center of a new solar system of high priced consumerism.
I loved this book - it was like a history version of window shopping along the Champs-Élysées!
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