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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Hardcover. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Over 60 years the Schwarzes recorded their sartorial truimphs as well as failures in life in a series of commissioned portraits which have been comprehensively reproduced in full color for the first time. These exquisite illustrations are accompanied by the Schwarzes’ fashion-focussed yet at times deeply personal captions which render the pair the world’s first fashion bloggers as well as pioneers of everyday portraiture. The First Book of Fashion demonstrates how dress – seemingly both ephemeral and trivial – has always been a potent tool in the right hands. Beyond this it colorfully recaptures the experience of Renaissance life and reveals the importance of clothing to the aesthetics and every day culture of the period. Historians Ulinka Rublack’s and Maria Hayward’s insightful commentaries create an unparalleled portrait of sixteenth-century dress that is strikingly imodern and thorough in its description of a true- Renaissance fashionista’s wardrobe. This first English translation also includes a bespoke pattern by TONY award-winning costume designer and dress historian Jenny Tiramani from which readers can recreate one of Matth?us Schwarz’s most elaborate and politically significant outfits. (OS)