The Rose in Fashion
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Ravishing
Amy de la Haye
An exploration of how the rose—the most ravishingly beautiful and symbolic of flowers—has inspired fashion over hundreds of years?
The Rose in Fashion: Ravishing is a fascinating exploration of how the rose has inspired the way we look, dress, feel, and fantasize. It foregrounds innovative, refined, and challenging fashion design from elite 18th-century woven silks to the latest gender-neutral catwalk trends and Alexander McQueen rose dresses. Drawing upon fashion clothing, everyday dress, millinery, fine jewelry, perfume, and artificial and fresh roses, multiple expert contributors make reference to love, beauty, sex, sin, gendered identities, rites of passage, transgression, degradation, and death. This sumptuously illustrated book also includes a contribution and stunning images of roses by visionary photographer Nick Knight. Wild yet cultivated, savage yet delicate, this flower has remained an enduring symbol perhaps due to its versatility and the dichotomies it represents.
The Rose in Fashion: Ravishing is a fascinating exploration of how the rose has inspired the way we look, dress, feel, and fantasize. It foregrounds innovative, refined, and challenging fashion design from elite 18th-century woven silks to the latest gender-neutral catwalk trends and Alexander McQueen rose dresses. Drawing upon fashion clothing, everyday dress, millinery, fine jewelry, perfume, and artificial and fresh roses, multiple expert contributors make reference to love, beauty, sex, sin, gendered identities, rites of passage, transgression, degradation, and death. This sumptuously illustrated book also includes a contribution and stunning images of roses by visionary photographer Nick Knight. Wild yet cultivated, savage yet delicate, this flower has remained an enduring symbol perhaps due to its versatility and the dichotomies it represents.
Published in association with The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
Exhibition Schedule:
The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
(Opens August 6, 2021)
Amy de la Haye is professor of dress history and curatorship at London College of Fashion and joint director of the University of the Arts Centre for Fashion Curation.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
(Opens August 6, 2021)
“In this beautiful book, Amy de la Haye…explores the long history of the rose in fashion, from Ancient Egypt, where fresh roses were worn as accessories, to modern catwalks.”—Ciara Dossett, Daily Mail
ISBN: 9780300250084
Publication Date: October 6, 2020
Publishing Partner: Published in association with The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
Publication Date: October 6, 2020
Publishing Partner: Published in association with The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
240 pages, 8 1/2 x 10 1/2
228 color + 38 b/w illus.
228 color + 38 b/w illus.
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