Thursday, January 27, 2011

American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion

A delicate and precisely executed gown by Jean Yu
By Patricia Mears, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, 182 p.

Mears starts with a very simple thesis: American fashion is not wholly defined by sportswear.  There are, and have been, fashion designers in the States who rival their European counterparts in expertise, creativity and vision.  Meyers identifies Jean Yu, Isabel Toledo, Rodarte, Ralph Rucci and Francisco Costa as contemporary Americans designers working in the Grand European Tradition.

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