Author: Farnetti Cera, Deanna:
Title: Adorning Fashion. The History of Costume Jewellery to Modern Times.
Description: 10 2019, (24 x 30 cm), 400 pp. English text, 535 colour & 7 b & w. ills., hardcover. ¶ This is a definitive, comprehensive overview of costume jewellery. It follows he evolution of costume jewellery from bourgeois France to the present day. A Lavishly illustrated reference book with includes a remarkable range of disgneis including Lalique, Fouquet, Dior, Balenciaga, Versace and many more É Costume jewellery is commonly understood to mean fashionable yet affordable adornments made from non-precious material. Originating in in mid-1700s France with the rise of the bourgeoise, the earliest 'costume jewellery' mimicked fine jewellery styles. Since then, costume jewellery has always been evolving. From Victorian sentimentalism to the mass-produced ornaments available today, costume jewellery has developed into an artform in its own right. An encyclopaedic study of its history is long overdue. Flush with expert information, identification tips and historical anecdotes, Adorning Fashion explores the development of costume jewellery across the past four centuries. The styles of each era - Victorian, Edwardian, Arts & Crafts, Jugenstil, Art Nouveau, and each decade of the twentieth century - are given individual attention. Production methods are also explained in depth. Alloys and gilded electroplating can mimic silver and gold, while the refraction index of treated glass can, to the untrained eye, be mistaken for diamond.

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