| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 272 pages) : color illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Elizabeth Way -- Section I. Anonymous histories. 1. The fabric of fast fashion: enslaved wearers and makers as designers in the American fashion system / Katie Knowles -- 2. Slavery's warp, liberty's weft: a look at the work of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century enslaved fashion makers and their legacies / Jonathan Michael Square -- 3. A matrilineal thread: nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Black New York dressmakers / Elizabeth Way -- Section II. In the atelier: modistes and independent designers. 4. Dressing up: the rise of Fannie Criss / Kristen E. Stewart -- 5. Ruby Bailey: making for oneself, a regional fashion designer case study / Joy Davis -- 6. Arthur George "Art" Smith: an artist about form, a man about substance / Kristen J. Owens -- Section III. Into the mainstream: Seventh Avenue and beyond. -- 7. Wesley Tann: the glamour and the guts / Nancy Deihl -- 8. Jay Jaxon: an unsung couturier / Darnell-Jamal Lisby -- 9. Dapper Dan: the original streetwear designer and influencer / Ariele Elia -- Section IV. The star designer: national and international impact. 10. Color story: Stephen Burrows's impact on the world of fashion / Tanya Danielle Wilson Myers -- 11. Scott Barrie: designing 1970s New York / Elizabeth Way -- 12. Race WERK: WilliWear and Patrick Kelly Paris / Eric Darnell Pritchard -- Postscript / Elizabeth Way -- Index. |
| Summary |
"Using previously unexplored sources, Black Designers in American Fashion addresses the erased histories of black fashion designers and their integral role in the American fashion industry"-- Provided by publisher |
| Access |
Concurrent user level: 1 user |
| Subject |
Fashion -- United States -- History.
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Fashion. |
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United States. |
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African American fashion designers -- History.
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African American fashion designers. |
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History. |
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History of fashion. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Way, Elizabeth (Writer on fashion), editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Black designers in American fashion. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021 9781350138476 (DLC) 2020051658 |
| ISBN |
9781350138506 (electronic book) |
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1350138509 (electronic book) |
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9781350138490 (electronic book) |
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1350138495 (electronic book) |
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9781350138483 (electronic book) |
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1350138487 (electronic book) |
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9781350138476 (paperback) |
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9781350138469 (hardcover) |
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