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RR 2011/233 The Berg Companion to Fashion Edited by Valerie Steele Berg Oxford and New York, NY 2010 xv + 782 pp. ISBN 978 1 84788 592 0 (hard back); ISBN 978 1 84788 563 0 (paper back) £75 $140 (hard back); £29.99 $49.95 (paper back)
Keyword Fashion
Review DOI 10.1108/09504121111145492
According to the editor this volume is "a one-stop reference for anyone interested in fashion" and complements the online Berg Fashion Library (Eicher, 2010) (RR 2011/184), also available as a ten volume printed set as Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, and the Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion (Steele, 2005) (RR 2005/295) published by a Thomson Gale imprint which still owns copyright of the articles.
The companion is aimed at curators, academic staff and students of fashion studies rather than those students doing practical fashion courses as the entries are too wordy for the latter with too few illustrations, which are what they require for their inspiration and work. More than 300 entries have been drawn from Steele's (2005) publication...