Jasper Conran
High and Low Chic
McDowelll's Directory of Twentieth Century Fashion
By Colin McDowell
Muller 220pp £20 order from our bookshop
Clothing is perhaps one of the most misunderstood products of this century or, for that matter, any other century. It is only in the last ninety years or so that personalities in the form of designers have emerged. Those people (regarded by the layman with the utmost suspicion) have, in that time, released women from their corsets and built up a multi-billion dollar industry.
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