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Denim : fashion's frontier / Emma McClendon ; foreword by Fred Dennis.

By:

McClendon, Emma [author.]

Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016Description: 212 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 26 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780300219142 (hbk.) :
0300219148

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Summary: Denim is one of the world's favorite fabrics, and today it accounts for the largest segment of the clothing industry. The market for jeans alone is worth over 55 billion dollars. Experiments with denim by designers have helped to develop a vast vocabulary of denim styles beyond jeans that are now ingrained in fashion's lexicon. This handsome book explores the multifaceted history of denim and examines the continually evolving relationship between it and high fashion.

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Denim is one of the world's favorite fabrics, and today it accounts for the largest segment of the clothing industry. The market for jeans alone is worth over 55 billion dollars. Experiments with denim by designers have helped to develop a vast vocabulary of denim styles beyond jeans that are now ingrained in fashion's lexicon. This handsome book explores the multifaceted history of denim and examines the continually evolving relationship between it and high fashion.

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