Fashion Since 1900

From the turn-of-the-century S-bend silhouette to celebrity couture of the new millennium and the evolution of streetwear, this comprehensive survey explores significant developments in fashion from 1900 to the present day. Fashion historians Amy de la Haye and Valerie Mendes focus on key movements and innovations in style, and explore trends through the work of some of the world’s most original and influential designers and couturiers. Chapters are organized around crucial shifts in tastes and major world events, and exciting advances in fashion are placed within their socioeconomic, political and cultural contexts.

International in scope with colour illustrations throughout, this edition includes updated text as well as a new chapter that discusses some of the defining features of fashion in our time: the industry’s proactive embrace of age, gender and race diversity, and its ongoing efforts to combat labour exploitation and encourage global sustainability.

Table of Contents:

1900-1913: undulations and exotica --
1914-1929: La Garçonne and the new simplicity --
1930-1938: recession and escapism --
1939-1945: rationed fashion and home-made style --
1946-1956: femininity and conformity --
1957-1967: affluence and the teenage challenge --
1968-1975: eclecticism and ecology --
1976-1988: sedition and consumerism --
1989-1999: fashion goes global --
2000-: planet fashion.
11. Fashion 2010–2020 (added in 2021 edition)