McClendon, Emma,

Denim : fashion's frontier / Emma McClendon ; foreword by Fred Dennis. - 212 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm

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.

Specialized.

9780300219142 (hbk.) : £30.00 0300219148


Fashion design--History.--United States
Denim--History.
Jeans (Clothing)--History.
Beauty and Fashion.
Beauty and Fashion.