A concise account of the history of fashion and costume from prehistoric times through to today.

An exploration of how the rose--the most ravishingly beautiful and symbolic of flowers--has inspired fashion over hundreds of years

This revised and updated book celebrates Chanel as the couturiere who changed the way stylish women dress, then and now. It examines the creative output of this most famous of fashion houses, from its infancy in the 1920s through Karl Lagerfeld's incredibly successful tenure, and to the present day as it continues to prosper under Virginie Viard.