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Evening Dress | 
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| Author: Alexandra Black
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $60.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 201560
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.4
Dimensions (in): 11.4 x 9.8 x 1.2
ISBN: 0847826481
Dewey Decimal Number: 778
EAN: 9780847826483
ASIN: 0847826481
Publication Date: January 15, 2005
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Product Description
Be a caterpillar by day and a butterfly by night, counseled the legendary designer Coco Chanel. "Nothing could be more comfortable than a caterpillar, and nothing could be more made for love than a butterfly." This high priestess of style understood what the well-dressed woman has always known: There's something special that goes on after dark.
While daywear must be practical, versatile,
and appropriate, the evening is open for interpretation, offering designers the rare opportunity to indulge their imagination and sense of festiveness and frivolity. A tribute to fashion's highest art, Evening Dress chronicles glamorous attire from ancient times up to the latest season, featuring photographs and sketches of hundreds of exquisite gowns. A celebration of this most elegant form of the sartorial arts, this lavish edition will engage, amuse, and inspire.
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 The Perfect Gift for the Lady on the Social Circuit September 7, 2007
The book is exquisite! I own one and have given it to friends as a birthday gift - and they all love it.
 Beautiful but disappointing July 4, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I would absolutely agree that this book is beautiful, lavishly illustrated and elegantly produced. The text is well-written and informative, too.
However, as a self-styled 'history of the evening dress', it is far from comprehensive and does much less than the title suggests. The author deals with pre-twentieth century fashions - everything from the Ancient Egyptian to the late-Victorian - in what is, in effect, merely an extended prologue. Early designers like Charles Worth and Rose Bertin are skimmed over or ignored entirely. Nor do the illustrations in this section particularly excite me - one only needs to think of the sheer volume of exquisite fashion plates and period portraits by the likes of Lawrence, Winterhalter, Sargent and Boldini which could have been employed so much more effectively than the images appearing here.
The main body of the book only deals in detail with post-WWI fashion - each decade, from the Twenties onwards, merits an individual chapter. Although, for the simple reason of space, this makes sense, I'm frankly incredulous that the elegant and extravagant Edwardian Era - the age of Poiret, Lucile and the Callot Soeurs - rates only the briefest of mentions.
High quality images of vintage gowns from top-notch museum collections are employed throughout the book but the choice is once again both disappointing and limited - I'm familiar with many of the collections in question and the dresses featured are neither beautiful or inspiring, particularly in relation to some of the gems that were by-passed. Ultimately, however, this could simply be a matter of personal taste. More irritatingly, in a book that professes to be a 'history', an inordinate amount of space is devoted to contemporary takes on the flapper frock and Seventies disco number. This is all very well in an issue of 'Vogue' but I'd have liked to have seen much more emphasis on what was ACTUALLY worn back then, rather than on modern interpretations.
'Evening Dress' will look lovely on a coffee table. But, as a serious history, it falls far short of the mark.
Its so Pretty December 6, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm in love with this book. Every time I look at it I want to drop everything and join the fashion industry. It is also a great source of inspiration for anything.
ooh, la la plus January 29, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
the book was excitment plus. all the glamouous dresses and the models. It is a superb glamour book. Any one who love clothes, fashion and style should have this book. the Great day of the glamour dresses is almost extinct. This might bring it back. Why would a woman not want to look like the pages of this elegant book? clinta ingraham
good reference to fashion students February 26, 2005
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
I had been eyeing this book for about a month at the bookstores before i finally decided to purchase it for myself. There are lots of colorful pictures; GREAT for inspiration for fashion design students. It also has great fashion illustrations of the dresses which are also VERY helpful. There are even little tips in the description of the garments which are helpful sometimes. I am very satisfied with the purchase of this book and do reccomend it to fellow fashion students. If you like looking through Vogue for inspirations, this book has beautiful pictures.
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