The Rose in Fashion: Ravishing (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300250084)

An exploration of how the rose--the most ravishingly beautiful and symbolic of flowers--has inspired fashion over hundreds of years​

The Rose in Fashion: Ravishing is a fascinating exploration of how the rose has inspired the way we look, dress, feel, and fantasize. It foregrounds innovative, refined, and challenging fashion design from elite 18th-century woven silks to the latest gender-neutral catwalk trends and Alexander McQueen rose dresses. Drawing upon fashion clothing, everyday dress, millinery, fine jewelry, perfume, and artificial and fresh roses, multiple expert contributors make reference to love, beauty, sex, sin, gendered identities, rites of passage, transgression, degradation, and death. This sumptuously illustrated book also includes a contribution and stunning images of roses by visionary photographer Nick Knight. Wild yet cultivated, savage yet delicate, this flower has remained an enduring symbol perhaps due to its versatility and the dichotomies it represents.

Published in association with The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York

Exhibition Schedule:

The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
(Opens August 6, 2021)

Author: Amy de la Haye
ISBN-10: 0300250088
ISBN-13: 9780300250084
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/06/2020
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.35lbs
Size: 10.90h x 9.00w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/01/2021 pg. 72

About the Author
Amy de la Haye is professor of dress history and curatorship at London College of Fashion and joint director of the University of the Arts Centre for Fashion Curation.