Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0760782024, Hardcover)

2006 printing by Taschen & Barnes/Noble Taken from the amazing collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute in Japan, the examples of fashion of all cultures are splendidly presented in this oversize book filled with hundreds of colour illustrations. The text is succinct and informative. A beautiful addition to any collection of fashion or costume design. Contents: foreword by Bernard Dorin; introduction by Koichi Tsukamoto; Jean Starobinski: "Rococo and Neoclassicsim"; Philippe Duboy: Architecture of Eighteenth-Century Paris"; Akiko Fukai: Rococo and Neoclassical Clothing"; Jun I. Kanai: "One More Desire: Fashion Leaders of a Dramatic Era", Toshio Horii: "From the Age of Refinement to the World of The Tempest"; Janet Arnold: "The Cut and Construction of Women's Clothes in the Eighteenth Century" Martin Kamer: Brilliant Adornments: Eighteenth-Century Jewelry"; plate commentary; chronology; glossary