Suiting yourself
Peter Campbell, 27 July 1989
I Modi. The Sixteen Pleasures: An Erotic Album of Renaissance Italy
by Lynne Lawner.
Northwestern, 132 pp., $35.95, February 1989,0 8101 0803 8 Show More
by Lynne Lawner.
Northwestern, 132 pp., $35.95, February 1989,
The Dress of the Venetians 1495-1525
by Stella MaryNewton.
Scolar, 196 pp., £28.50, December 1988,0 85967 735 4 Show More
by Stella MaryNewton.
Scolar, 196 pp., £28.50, December 1988,
Fashion Drawings in ‘Vogue’: René Bouët-Willamez and Fashion Drawings in ‘Vogue’: Carl Erickson
by William Parker.
Joseph, 128 pp., £14.95, March 1989,0 86350 198 2 Show More
by William Parker.
Joseph, 128 pp., £14.95, March 1989,
Women and Fashion
by Caroline Evans and Minna Thornton.
Quartet, 184 pp., £15, March 1989,0 7043 2691 4 Show More
by Caroline Evans and Minna Thornton.
Quartet, 184 pp., £15, March 1989,
“... aspect of the world of decorum to which the prints and sonnets stood in opposition is examined in Stella MaryNewton’s The Dress of the Venetians 1495-1525, which catches fragments of the exchange between conservative and innovative spirits in the argument of fashion. At the age of 25 a well-born late-15th-century ... ”
