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100 Dresses: The Costume Institute / The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Harold Koda

Paperback | Pages: 232 pages

Rating: 4.23 | 567 Users | 38 Reviews

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Title	:	100 Dresses: The Costume Institute / The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author	:	Harold Koda
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 232 pages
Published	:	November 1st 2010 by Yale University Press (first published October 26th 2010)
Categories	:	Couture. Fashion. Nonfiction. Art. History

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An irresistible look into more than 300 years of fashion through an exquisite collection of designer dresses

What woman can resist imagining herself in a beautiful designer dress? Here, for the first time ever, are 100 fabulous gowns from the permanent collection of the renowned Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, each of which is a reminder of the ways fashion reflects the broader culture that created it.

Featuring designs by Paul Poiret, Coco Chanel, Madame Grès, Yves Saint Laurent, Gianni Versace, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, and many others, this one-of-a-kind collection presents a stunning variety of garments. Ranging from the buttoned-up gowns of the late 17th century to the cutting-edge designs of the early 21st, the dresses reflect the sensibilities and excesses of each era while providing a vivid picture of how styles have changed—sometimes radically—over the years. A late 1600s wool dress with a surprising splash of silver thread; a large-bustled red satin dress from the 1800s; a short, shimmery 1920s dancing dress; a glamorous 1950s cocktail dress; and a 1960s minidress—each tells a story about its period and serves as a testament to the enduring ingenuity of the fashion designer’s art.

Images of the dresses are accompanied by informative text and enhanced by close-up details as well as runway photos, fashion plates, works of art, and portraits of designers. A glossary of related terms is also included.

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Beautifully illustrated and, if you love fashion history, you will have lots of fun agreeing or disagreeing with the choices. Loved it.

This book was incredable! It showed me several differant dress styles. Because of this book, I learned a great amount about the history of vintage clothing. The pictures are wonderful:you can see every unique detail on the dresses. Covering the history of the dresses, this books also gives the account of the designers as well.In short, I believe every historian should read this book because it gives more than what is expected.

I really liked this book and how it showed the history about the dresses. This book grave me lots of cool designs for dresses that I can make. Most of the designers of the dresses were inspired from Greek history. I would recommend this book to future fashion designers.

A collection of gorgeous dresses (for the most part) that represent the most beautiful and elegant of their time. I take exception to the handful of later dresses which I feel are more experimental and should not have been included in the collection (i.e., the airplane dress, the staircase dress -- good luck walking down the street in that -- Galliano's "Creation" dress of a work in progress and its pincushion bracelet, and a few obvious others). Another frustrating thing about this book is the

The book is made up of article-like descriptions for each dress. Some of the descriptions for the dresses are all over the place, usually using vocabulary that felt forced and over the top, almost snooty sounding. For example "While his creations are generally apolitical and ahistorical-the result of an intuitive, primarily visual synthesis...." I'm not saying they should dumb it down, but if they want to hold the readers attention, then they should adjust the writing style. I liked that the

For Mickey Sue...

There is subliminal magic built into the fabric of a luxurious dress. It has a way of oozing romance, elegance, and the possibility of something extraordinary occurring on an otherwise simple evening. A dress can also speak its own language and, as 100 Dresses shows, the tongues are endless. A white lace gown, like the 1901 dress worn by Manhattan aristocrat Winifred Sprague Walker Prosser, brings to mind a traditional white wedding. In Winifreds time however, the high-necked, mutton sleeved