- 300 pages
- English
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About this book
The companion volume to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art's first fashion exhibition, Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour celebrates the history of American attire, from the cowboy boot to the zoot suit. From dresses worn by First Ladies to art-inspired garments to iconic moments in fashion that defined a generation, Fashioning America showcases uniquely American expressions of innovation, spotlighting stories of designers and wearers that center on opportunity and self-invention, and amplifying the voices of those who are often left out of dominant fashion narratives.
With nearly one hundred illustrations of garments and accessories that span two centuries of design, Fashioning America celebrates the achievements of a wide array of makersāespecially immigrants, Native Americans, and Black Americans. Incorporating essays by fashion historians, curators, and journalists, this volume takes a fresh look at the country's fashion history while exploring its close relationship with Hollywood and media in general, illuminating the role that American designers have played in shaping global visual culture and demonstrating why American fashion has long resonated around the world.
With nearly one hundred illustrations of garments and accessories that span two centuries of design, Fashioning America celebrates the achievements of a wide array of makersāespecially immigrants, Native Americans, and Black Americans. Incorporating essays by fashion historians, curators, and journalists, this volume takes a fresh look at the country's fashion history while exploring its close relationship with Hollywood and media in general, illuminating the role that American designers have played in shaping global visual culture and demonstrating why American fashion has long resonated around the world.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Directorās Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Refashioning America
- Indigenous Fashion: Every Garment Has a Story
- They Have Names: Stories of Erasure
- Woven into the American Fabric: Black Craftspeople and the Clothing Trades in PreāCivil War Charleston
- Fashion as History/History as Fashion: Phoebe and Pyer Moss
- Westernwear: Complicating American Icons
- Paris Fashions Americanized: The Development of American Style
- Shaping the Standard Body: Sizing in American Fashion
- Refashioning the World: Whiteness, Racial Plagiarism, and Diversifying the Future
- Hidden in the Seams: A Family Account of Dominican Immigration to Massachusetts
- Selected Bibliography and Suggested Reading
- Contributors
- Image Credits
- Index
- Copyright