The End of the Postwar Era. A new balance of world power.

English edition. Milano, Skira 2015, cm.26x28, pp.336, ill. legatura editoriale, la copertina figurata a colori. This quintessential volume on Italian Style narrates the development of fashion through around three hundred dresses, chronologically ordered and selected from an international collection of over six thousand pieces, enriched by commentary by historians, journalists and fashion designers, but also by photography, film and personal testimony: a concrete resource for historians of costume, students and passionates. The idea of departing from a purely chronological sequence springs from a desire to demonstrate the vitality and ongoing relevance of historical pieces through their juxtaposition with contemporary examples. Most of the displayed dresses were documented by photographers when they first appeared worn by famous actresses, models and jet set personalities of the time: from the Duchess of Windsor to Queen Paola of Belgium, from Princess Grace of Monaco to Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn, Veruschka, Marisa Berenson, Grace Jones amongst many others.

U.S.A. Berne Convention 1978, cm.28x21,5, pp.X,366, num.ill.bn.e a col. nt. leg.ed. sopracop.fig.a col. Testo in inglese.