A Family of Fashion: The Messel Dress Collection

This lavishly illustrated catalogue will accompany an exhibition at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery in 2006.The items on display are drawn from the extensive wardrobe of four generations of Lord Snowdon's family--the Messel-Rosse-Linley-Sambourne-Snowdons. The book uses these examples to trace the evolution of stylish English dress from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s, and is brought up to modern times through items lent by living family members.

Summary

A collection of garments, embracing luxurious international haute couture, fancy dress, home-made and customised clothing worn by six generations of women from one family. This work includes the surviving clothing that tells the story of these women and traces their rise from private middle class comfort to the public stage of the aristocracy.

Product details

• Authors: Amy de La Haye, Taylor La Haye, Lou Taylor, Eleanor Thompson
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2006
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 218 mm x 279 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 1143 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design