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Fashion Spectacles, Spectacular Fashion: Eyewear Styles and Shapes from Vintage to 2020

by Simon Murray , Nicky Albrechtsen
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780500516355
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson
  • Publisher Imprint: Thames & Hudson
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 240
  • Original Price: GBP 28.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1665 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Fashion & Accessories

The twentieth century marked a turning point in eyewear design, fueled by a rapidly changing social and cultural landscape, new manufacturing techniques, the development of innovative materials, and the entertainment industry. Spectacles, which had previously been classed as purely functional, were transformed into an ultra-chic fashion accessory. This engaging book is based on Simon Murray's amazing collection, built up over decades of avid collecting. An introduction explores the history of glasses and reveals how premodern features and materials remain a rich source of inspiration in contemporary design, from Andre Courr ges's "Lunettes Eskimo," a twentieth-century take on Inuit goggles, to Gucci's "Leather Aviators." Examples of pre-twentieth-century glasses and contextual shots of film and style icons sporting spectacles illustrate not only the finest inventions and innovations of the past but also their evolution into the diverse, eclectic range of styles available today. Illustrated with specially commissioned photographs by Drew Gardner, this indispensable guide to eyewear will appeal to fashion designers, stylists, costume designers, and lovers of vintage.

Albrechtsen, Nicky: - Nicky Albrechtsen is the proprietor of the Vintage Resource Studio in Brick Lane, London, which provides costumes and props to the theater and media. She is the author of The Printed Square; Scarves, with Fola Solanke; and Fashion Spectacles, Spectacular Fashion, with Simon Murray.

Murray, Simon: - Simon Murray has provided glasses for movies from Indiana Jones to Batman.

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