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Contemporary Fashion Edition 2.

By Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf , Richard Martin

Book information

Publisher
St. James Press
Year
2002
ISBN
9781558623484, 1558623485
Open Library ID
OL8607025M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (22720727 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
743\743
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

Contemporary Fashion has more useful factual content thanany other fashion book ever published.It is regrettable that Gale/St. James could not have putmore of their resources into its presentation.Richard Martin, the only distinguished scholar in the field,edits a substantive encyclopedia of post-war fashion throughoutthe world, and the book falls pitifully short of its contentin its weak binding, design and the illustrations are poor, indeed.They may as well have released it as an un-illustrated work, for their scholarly text is accompanied by off-focus black and whitephotographs completely un-satisfactory in describing the the work and sometimes embarassing in their printing [negativesprinted backwards in at least two instances].It is a shame that an ess

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