Edited by Valerie Steele

The Berg Fashion Library includes in-depth entries from the A-Z of Fashion, edited by world renowned fashion historian Valerie Steele. This is the benchmark guide to the subject and provides entries on designers, articles of clothing, key concepts and styles: from Avedon to Codpiece, Dandyism to the G-String, Japanese Fashion to Subcultures, and Trickle down to Zoot Suit. Entries are also published in book form as The Berg Companion to Fashion (2010).

* All material from The A-Z of Fashion is © The Gale Group; updates supplied by Bloomsbury where indicated

 

   

        
         

A major multi-volume work of reference which brings together seminal writings on Fashion. The geographical range of the essays crosses Europe, Asia and North America.

The essays reveal the wide set of methodological approaches which all bear on the study of Fashion - Sociology, Art History and Cultural History, Anthropology, Social Theory, Dress and Textile Studies. Ordered chronologically, the four volumes cover Late Medieval to Renaissance, the Eighteenth Century, the Nineteenth Century and the Twentieth Century to today.

Each volume is separately introduced and the essays structured into coherent sections on specific themes. A major scholarly resource for any researchers involved in the study of Fashion, Dress and Costume.

 

 

 

Valerie Cumming, C.W. Cunnington and P.E. Cunnington

The Berg Fashion Library provides succinct definitions of key fashion terms from the authoritative Dictionary of Fashion History(2010), itself based on the classic Dictionary of English Costume 900–1900 by C.W. and P.E. Cunnington and Charles Beard, and completely revised, updated and supplemented to the present by Valerie Cumming. For more information about the print version click here.