Accompanying the Museum's exhibition at The Costume Institute, this beautifully illustrated book explores the continually evolving influence of ancient Græco-Roman dress through the ages. Over the past two-and-a-half millennia, through diverse transformations and permutations, the classical mode has persisted, finding expression in artwork and in fashion. The three major types of classical dress—the chiton, peplos, and himation—have resonated as an ideal for artists and designers. As no ancient dress survives in cloth, Greek and Roman sculpture, vases, and literary sources of the period provide the only evidence of their characteristics. This book is arranged in four sections, in which examples of antique art depicting each type of dress are followed by fashions displaying subsequent parallels and differences that have occurred in the morphing from marble and clay to fabric. Among the many designs featured are those from Paul Poiret, Mariano Fortuny, Madame Grès, Yves Saint Laurent, and Tom Ford. Fashions inspired by the classic ideal often conjure up images of romance and elegance, reminding us of Venus, the goddess of love. They can also be powerful and provocative, like Diana, the goddess of the hunt. As the mission of The Costume Institute is to document and examine diverse aspects of fashion's history and march into the twenty-first century, Goddess is indicative of the classical mode's immortal presence.

224 pages, 175 illustrations (125 in full color), 9 in. x 12 in. Available in hardcover (clothbound, with jacket) or paper.


Goddess: The Classical Mode, Hardcover
05-007620
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