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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This is the decade in which everything changed. Fashion in the sixties was radical revolutionary -like nothing the world had ever seen. At the end of the fifties Yves Saint Laurent started looking for new ways to define the female form. By the seventies styles markets materials demographics inspirations and the very definition of fashion had been utterly transformed. We are still living with the effects today. Sixties Fashion tells the definitive story of the clothes the labels the movements and the music that shook the very foundations of society. In the early sixties an unprecedented explosion of youth culture-Diana Vreeland’s famous ‘youthquake’-led to a demand for informal but stylish clothes and self-expression became paramount. From the mods in London and the y?-y? scene in Paris to the flower children in San Francisco subcultures took fashion into their own hands and changed the world’s style from the bottom up. The miniskirt the ultimate expression of less is more’ was a potent symbol of change that defied the old establishment. Designers Mary Quant and Andr? Courr?ges were famous for raising hemlines but as Quant herself said ‘it was the girls in the street who did it’. By the end of the decade fashion had given way to style and clothes would never be the same again. (MP)