The London Look: Fashion from Street to Catwalk

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Christopher Breward, Edwina Ehrman, Caroline Evans. Yale University Press in association with the Museum of London, 2004. 174 pp., illus. £30 hardback. ISBN 0 300 10399 9. The London Look: Fashion from Street to Catwalk is pure visual splendour, presenting a well illustrated book accessible to a broad audience, documenting a two-century sartorial overview of London's style. This book accompanied the exhibition of the same name at the Museum of London (29 October 2004 to 8 May 2005), where objects had been carefully chosen to tell a tightly focused visual narrative, serving both media with equal alacrity. Its contributors, Christopher Breward, Edwina Ehrman and Caroline Evans, are uniquely suited to approach this topic and recount the history of London's clothing, effectively combining history, theory and material culture. Indeed, all the authors have written extensively on themes of London fashion, space, and modernity. A sampling of Breward's recent books—the 2004 Fashioning...

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