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Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion

"Steele, director of the Fashion Institute of Technology Museum, has crafted, with the help of 325 contributors, an authoritative introduction to fashion, the industry, and the issues that have defined the field. Some 640 articles describe the colorful facets of couture and textiles, from fabri...

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Other Authors: Steele, Valerie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farmington Hills, MI : Charles Scribner's Sons, [2005]
Series:Scribner library of daily life.
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3 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
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