Handbags - The Making of a Museum

Informationen zum Autor Judith Clark is professor of fashion and museology at the London College of Fashion. Klappentext The history of the handbag - its design, how it has been made, used, and worn - reveals something essential about women's lives lived over the last 500 years. Perhaps the most universal item of fashionable adornment, it can also be elusive, an object of desire, secrecy and even fear. This book explores these rich histories and multiple meanings. Zusammenfassung An exploration of the role of the handbag in the history of culture! fashion! and material production

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• Authors: Judith Clark, Judith/ Wilcox Clark, Clark Judith, Amy de la Haye, Caroline Evans, Evans Caroline, Amy de la Haye, Adam Phillips, Claire Wilcox, Wilcox Claire
• Assisted by: Judith Clark (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2012
• EAN: 9780300186185
• ISBN: 978-0-300-18618-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 222 mm x 274 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; ART / History / General, DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories, DESIGN / Textile & Costume, ART / Asian / General, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, History of Art, South Korea, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, History of fashion, Fashion and textile design, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections