Yale Center for British Art

Title:: Fashioned from nature / edited by Edwina Ehrman.
Published / Created:: South Kensington, London : V&A Publishing, 2018.
Physical Description:: 192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 33 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:: Books
Notes:: "Published to accompany the exhibition 'Fashioned from Nature' at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from 21 April 2018 to 27 January 2019"--Title page verso.
Contents:: Foreword / Emma Watson -- Sponsor's foreword / Marie-Emmanuelle Belzung -- Director's foreword / Tristram Hunt -- Introduction / Edwina Ehrman -- Chapter 1: 1600-1800 / Edwina Ehrman ; From cocoon to court: an Eighteenth-century Mantua / Lesley Ellis Miller ; Drawn from nature: 1600-1800 / Clare Browne -- Chapter 2: 1800-1900 / Edwina Ehrman ; Walking in flora and fauna: a Nineteenth-century dress and hat / Veronica Isaac ; Engaging with nature: The fern craze / Edwina Ehrman -- Chapter 3: 1900-1990 / Edwina Ehrman ; Cellulose in couture: An evening coat / Sarah Glenn ; Imagining nature: 1952-2010 / Oriole Cullen -- Chapter 4: 1990-present / Dilys Williams ; Traceability and responsibility: A Twenty-first century t-shirt / Connie Karol Burks.
Subject Terms:: Fashion -- History -- Exhibitions. | Nature (Aesthetics) -- Exhibitions. | Fashion -- Environmental aspects. | Textile industry -- Environmental aspects. | Sustainability. | Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Contributors:: Ehrman, Edwina, editor. | Victoria and Albert Museum, host institution.