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Planet Fashion Natasha Slee

Planet Fashion By Natasha Slee

Planet Fashion by Natasha Slee


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Summary

In Planet Fashion, join two young adventurers on a journey through 100 years of fashion history.

Planet Fashion Summary

Planet Fashion: 100 years of fashion history by Natasha Slee

Hold onto your hats and lace up your boots; we're off on a fashion adventure! Travel through 25 scenes in fashion history, circling the globe with your two young stylish travel companions - one boy and one girl, dressed the part in every picture. Each lavishly illustrated scene captures the mood and style of a unique time and place, accompanied by a trove of fashion history facts.

Your journey begins over one hundred years ago, twirling around the ballroom in gowns and tailcoats. Travel on to dress up in Oriental silks to see a performance of the Ballet Russes, shimmy down in the flapper fashion of the Harlem Renaissance, fling your feather boa as you schmooze with movies stars on the Hollywood red carpet and glue your hair into spikes as a London punk in this celebration of fashion and culture.

Each vibrant, style-defining setting shows an array of characters showing off the distinguishing fashions of the time. Captions point out key fashion features, accessories and cultural influences - like the cycling bloomers of the active and career-driven New Woman at the start of the twentieth century, the morale-boosting felt hats worn during the Second World War and the plastic sunglasses inspired by space goggles from the Space Race era. Fact boxes give the time, place, key designers, and trends in silhouettes, hemlines, and sleeves for each fashion scene.

Use the timelines at the back to see how historical events intersect with the evolution of fashion. One timeline summarizes the formative events of the twentieth century and three others highlight trends in shoes, hats and bags. A Can You Find? page gives you motivation to study the scenes even more closely. Can you find a waiter dropping his tray of coffee on the streets of Paris? And a pair of roller skates at the dazzling disco jam?

From Bollywood to Hollwood, suburban Canada to the French Riviera - embark on a voyage of discovery. A century of inspiring style awaits...

Planet Fashion Reviews

'It's like a glorious story book... a history book filled with engaging facts, and just a really brilliantly presented piece of work' * Read It Daddy *
'A book equally at home in a school library, a child's bedroom, a fashion student's bookshelf or on anyone's coffee table.' * Achuka *
'This book is absolutely brilliant! ... a celebration of all things fashion with superb illustrations throughout.' * Mama Filz *
'For anybody with an interest in fashion, this is a must-have book: I absolutely loved it.' * Red Reading Hub *
'a book full of life and joy' * Parents in Touch *

About Natasha Slee

Natasha Slee is a writer, creative and social media specialist working at Refinery29. She is the author of Design Line: History of Women's Fashion, and Style Guide: Fashion from Head to Toe. She lives in London.

Cynthia Kittler is an illustrator based in Germany. Her clients include The New Yorker, The New York Times, Google, WRAP, Bloomberg Businessweek, Die Zeit, Suddeutsche Zeitung and Der Spiegel. Planet Fashion is her fifth book and first book for children. She has lectured in illustration at the University of Applied Sciences Wurzburg and Mainz.

Additional information

GOR010236494
9781786031945
1786031949
Planet Fashion: 100 years of fashion history by Natasha Slee
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Quarto Publishing PLC
20190404
64
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

Customer Reviews - Planet Fashion