60s Fashion: Vintage Fashion and Beauty Ads (Taschen Icon Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (715 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3822849359 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 172 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-20 |
| Language | : | German, English, French |
DESCRIPTION:
Fun even if you weren't around in the 60s Except for a few pages in front giving a brief overview of the era, this book is full of bright, gorgeous ads from the 60s with no additional text. Mostly makeup, hair care, and other products for women, but with a decent amount of men's and children's ads as well.It was amazing to see all the models who don't look like they were sculpted out of plastic (wrinkles! stray hairs! thick, clumped on mascara!) who still managed to look fabulous.And going through the ads and counting the companies that are still a. Alex H said **60s**AD**P*O*P** ART!. The 60S FASHION:VINTAGE FASHION AND BEAUTY ADS book is a fascinating time capsule of ads from the groovy 60s!Although the book is much smaller than I expected, measuring about 5.75" X 8", it's B-I-G on color pictures.A brief introduction by Laura Schooling written in English, German and French provide the background info on the times that "were a changing" explaining the youth revolution, rock music, and political upheaval that all lent to the influence of products that follow.You get to see and read the di. "Great review of 60's cultural history" according to International Agent. I love this book! It's a great review of the culture of the 60's from the early portion of the decade which still had influences of the 50's to the mod and psychadelic fashions and fads of the latter end of the decade.
This compendium of clothing advertisements brings back the most prevalent looks from the Swinging Sixties. The ubiquitous miniskirt is here in all its glory, along with mod fashions, Gidget/Beach Boys surfer looks, Correges space age clothing and such iconic items as the Rudi Gernreich topless bathing suit and Yves Saint-Laurent's Mondrian dress.
. She has written about music, fashion, and art for Black Book, Time Out New York and Angeleno. About the Author Jim Heimann is Executive Editor for TASCHEN America in Los Angeles and the author of numerous books on architecture, popular culture, and Hollywood history. Laura Schooling is the Creative Services Manger of STYLE.COM, and was the founding editor of Front Desk Los Angeles magazine. Her fiction writing has been covered by SOMA and featured in Giant magazine
She has written about music, fashion, and art for Black Book, Time Out New York and Angeleno. Her fiction writing has been covered by SOMA and featured in Giant magazine. Jim Heimann is Executive Editor for TASCHEN America in Los Angeles and the author of numerous books on architecture, popular culture, and Hollywood history. . Laura Schooling is the Creative Services Manger of STYLE.COM, and was the