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This captivating book reproduces arguably the most extraordinary primary source documents in fashion history. Providing a revealing window onto the Renaissance, they chronicle how style-conscious accountant Matthäus Schwarz and his son Veit Konrad experienced life through clothes, and climbed the social ladder through fastidious management of self-image. These bourgeois dandies' agenda resonates as powerfully today as it did in the sixteenth century: one has to dress to impress, and dress to impress they did.The Schwarzes recorded their sartorial triumphs as well as failures in life in a series of portraits by illuminists over 60 years, which have been comprehensively reproduced in full color for the first time. These exquisite illustrations are accompanied by the Schwarzes' fashion-focussed yet at times deeply personal captions, which render the pair the world's first fashion bloggers and pioneers of everyday portraiture.The First Book of Fashion demonstrates how dress - seemingly both ephemeral and trivial - is a potent tool in the right hands. Beyond this, it colorfully recaptures the experience of Renaissance life and reveals the importance of clothing to the aesthetics and every day culture of the period. Historians Ulinka Rublack's and Maria Hayward's insightful commentaries create an unparalleled portrait of sixteenth-century dress that is both strikingly modern and thorough in its description of a true Renaissance fashionista's wardrobe. This first English translation also includes a bespoke pattern by TONY award-winning costume designer and dress historian Jenny Tiramani, from which readers can recreate one of Schwarz's most elaborate and politically significant outfits. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This version of the clothes-book has the virtue of being in English, and has commentary on the various outfits, along with a pattern and reconstruction of one of the more flamboyant outfits. In terms of costs, the reconstruction is on a par with modern haute-couture! Admittedly, the reconstruction was using authentic materials (or as close as can be got with modern fabrics).
My quibble is with the layout; preserving the original layout and putting the commentary in a separate section with a thumbnail image made the book somewhat hard to read. For readability, having the image immediately followed by the commentary would have made far more sense. It would also have been nice to have included the pictorial references; not necessarily the full picture, a detail would have sufficed. Not everyone has access to the more obscure galleries. However, I suspect doing that would have made the cost and size of the book prohibitive; even for a paperback it’s unwieldy and heavy.
Recommended as a reference for historical clothing.