Luxury Fashion - A global history of heritage brands by Caroline Cox.
Luxury brands are not about banal retro styling or taking refuge in past glories; they are brands with a heritage that still chimes with contemporary culture. Luxury Fashion is a unique tribute to the world's most hallowed fashion brands. 
Glossy and highly informative, it provides in-depth portraits of over fifty of the finest luxury fashion brands (renowned heritage labels and hidden gems) as well as an essential lirectory of a further 160 brands, which includes letails of key items and where to find them.
Each featured brand is beautifully illustrated with historical and contemporary images, evoking the story of how artisans from all over the world have created objects of desire that have endured because of their superb quality, superior craftsmanship and timeless design appeal.
Lively, insightful text explores manufacturing processes and materials, revealing how the most revered fashion brands have maintained astonishingly long lineages. This illuminatin sourcebook uncovers the stories of the most fabled creators, from Hermès of Paris and Cordings of London through to legendary U.S. brands Chippewa and Brooks Brothers.
A luxurious and sophisticated volume, Luxury Fashion will captivate and inform even the most avid fashion devotee.
288 pages, colour and black and white photographs throughout.
A fine previously read copy.
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The other items in our photographs are not included.