Contains profiles of fifty of history's most significant fashion designers, each with photographs of his or her garments; arranged chronologically from Jeanne Lanvin, borth in 1867, to Stella McCartney, born in 1971.
Introduces popular fashion styles from the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, covering each decade, and trends including fashions of the Beats, hippies, and Harajuku style.
Photographs and text pay tribute to fifty women renown for their fashion and style, including Audrey Hepburn, Jacqueline Kennedy, Vivienne Westwood, Bj?ork, Scarlett Johansson, Kate Moss, Twiggy, and others.