Vogue Fashion: Over 100 years of Style by Decade and Designer, in association with Vogue

by Linda Watson

Comprehensive and lavishly illustrated -- a who's who of fashion. Published in association with Vogue magazine, Vogue Fashion is the definitive style bible for everyone interested in the past, present and future of fashion. It takes a fresh look at fashion history, charting the evolution from corsets to 21st-century trends. This stylish book chronicles all the significant designers, developments and movements of more than a hundred years of fashion -- from the 1920s flapper through the war years, from Christian Dior's New Look to the Swinging Sixties, from New Romanticism to punk to postmillenium styles. Among current designers featured are Vera Wang, Roberto Cavalli, Luella Bartley, Zac Posen, Roland Mouret and Viktor and RoIf. An A to Z section highlights over 250 of the greatest designers of all time -- the men and women who have inspired, created and altered the course of fashion. Illustrated with many eye-catching archival images, Vogue Fashion also features the work of the photographers who have helped immortalize seminal fashion moments. Vogue Fashion is an informative and inspirational look at how fashion reflects and projects social mores and individual values.

Genres: Fashion, Nonfiction, Art Design, History

408 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2000

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Reviews

[Sadhbh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reread

[Christina Barzdukas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very British leaning. A few inaccuracies.

[Victoria Moore · Rating 5 out of 5]

From the moment I picked up "20th Century Fashion: 100 Years of Style by Decade and Designer, in Association with Vogue," by Linda Watson I had trouble putting it down because it gave me so many fashion coordination ideas and educated me so thoroughly about "Vogue" from the 1900's to the 1990's, that I felt repeatedly drawn to it. Separated by eras, the beginning of the book called "the decades" was written in a breezy style packed with so much insider information from the pages of the magazine I felt like I was alive during the eras prior to my birth in 1961.
Exquisitely illustrated with photos and illustrations that depicted each era and designers' offerings, the second portion of the book, "the designers" was so eloquently listed alphabetically from A to Z with such precision after I read the bios I felt even more immersed in the fashion world presented. Published in 1999, the main asset of the book for me was how its historical data provided an excellent place to study the previous years in an industry that changes every day.

[₵oincidental Ðandy]

Leafing through this book, a conspicuous, rather yawning gap immediately becomes apparent: no mention (aside from a single photo) is made of Azzedine Alaïa. How is it possible to compile a hundred-year history of modern fashion (decade-by-decade & designer-by-designer, as the book's title claims) & not mention M. Alaïa, one of the pillars - and by far one of the very few, stand-out geniuses of his métier - of 20th Century fashion? I find it incomprehensible to deliberately omit his name & disregard his many contributions to fashion (and, therefore, ignore his long & brilliant career) - but then the book is published in association with Vogue; that sufficiently explains everything.

[RainbowWriter · Rating 5 out of 5]

A perfect book for someone who doesn't know anything about fashion or to someone who's studying fashion designing. It took me ages to finish reading because I didn't find the most designers from A to Z very interesting, just the most famous ones. The book starts with a history of fashion containing all the decades of VOGUE until 2000s. I wouldn't read it again any time soon because I stick to the VOGUE magazine itself. But it's a very profound fashion encyclopedia and now one of my favorite books.

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Books with amazing photography are must-haves for stoners. Public libraries are wonderful for this. The pre-WWII visual culture is especially trippy because it's easy to imagine as a parallel, contemporaneous, alien reality. It feels modern but separate and esoteric. Basically I wish it were possible to just leaf through Vogue magazines from these eras. I wouldn't call myself a devotee of high fashion by any means, but it's an interesting paradigm to sip and sample.

[Cortney Davis · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't read this page by page, but I enjoyed what I did read. I liked reading through the history of fashion when Vogue Magazine first was printed. I also liked how it then gave bios on all the famous designers!! It was an informative, interesting read for the fashion lover!

[Mzfitz]

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[Emily · Rating 2 out of 5]

eh... i thought there'd be more pictures... but it helped me to learn that I adore Dries Van Noten.

okay, so a little more than eh.

[Lost · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a whole lot of information in the Style by Decade section, but the book showcased a decent collection of short, designer biographies.

[Victoria · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad, some good info on fashion eras and a decent amount of info on designers. A good addition to any fashion library.

[Isobel · Rating 3 out of 5]

informative, but largely celebrating Vouge and it's role in the century. Historically, there isn't much to learn from this