{"id":919,"date":"2014-07-16T20:31:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T20:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/?p=919"},"modified":"2014-07-16T20:31:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T20:31:09","slug":"art-nouveau-fashion-1890-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/art-nouveau-fashion-1890-1914\/uncategorized\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Nouveau Fashion 1890 -1914"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OPera Cloak from Marshall and Snelgrove, London c1895<\/p><\/div>\n

My book, ‘Art Nouveau Fashion 1890-1914’ will be published by V&A Publishing in September – the\u00a0preview copies are now out and looking handsome. It was a privilege to work with so many beautiful objects and documents in the V&A collections – I was really spoilt for choice. Researching it I found out so much fascinating information that it couldn’t all be included. One theme that came through very strongly was the rivalry between couturiers in Paris, London and New York – fashion was a cut-throat business, with designs being pirated and corners being cut in order to secure prestigious commissions. No less a person than Queen Alexandra of England had to swear her fashion advisors to secrecy to avoid being upstaged at her own coronation!<\/p>\n

I will be posting\u00a0more from the book over the next few months, meanwhile here is the cover image:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My book, ‘Art Nouveau Fashion 1890-1914’ will be published by V&A Publishing in September – the\u00a0preview copies are now out and looking handsome. It was a privilege to work with so many beautiful objects and documents in the V&A collections … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}