144pp, copiously illustrated throughout. Black cloth-covered boards, silver titles on spine. Bottom corners lightly bumped. Black endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has significant shelf wear, chipping to edges, remnants of label on front flap, price unclipped. Folio. Celebrates that enduring fashion phenomenon the little black dress - from the feather-light pleats of Fortuny to the deconstructed 1980s creations of Commes des Garcons- with specially commissioned photographs and a stylish layout it effectively gives a history of 20th century fashion viewed from a single perspective. An astonishing publication by one of the world's premier museums; The Victoria & Albert, Cromwell Road, London.
