Wednesday, April 13, 2011

A la MODE

A La Mode - Fashion Plate

-Rudolph Ackermann's Journal
-Ackermann's Repository Arts 
-Monthly Magazine, ceased to exist in 1828
-Each volume contained two fashion plates
-In total around 450 fashion plates

Fashions of the early nineteenth century

-Huge amount of change
-Revelution, wars etc

-Romantic style
-Fantesy

-Not just a fashion magazine
-It had everything from crime, art, music, politics etc

Marie Antoinette
-Didn't like the way the Frenh dresses at the time
-Opped for the simple dressings of children
-Neo Classicism

Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette


-Designers referencing these styles:

-Alexdarnder Mc Queen
-2008 ready to wear colection

-Coming back to this style, but no where near what fashion would have been like.

Alexdarnder Mc Queen
Alexdarnder Mc Queen

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