A Family of Fashion The Messel Dress Collection, 1865-2005,9780856676109

A Family of Fashion The Messel Dress Collection, 1865-2005

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ISBN13: 9780856676109
ISBN10: 0856676101
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-03-03
Publisher(s): Atlasbooks Dist Serv
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Summary

This lavishly illustrated catalogue will accompany an exhibition at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery in 2006.The items on display are drawn from the extensive wardrobe of four generations of Lord Snowdon's family-the Messel-Rosse-Linley-Sambourne-Snowdons. The book uses these examples to trace the evolution of stylish English dress from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s, and is brought up to modern times through items lent by living family members.

Author Biography

Amy de la Haye is a curator, dress historian and creative consultant. She has a Senior Research Fellowship at the London College of Fashion (University of the Arts). From 1991-1998 she was Curator of 20th Century Dress at the V&A.
Lou Taylor is Professor of Dress and Textile history, University of Brighton, author of The Study of Dress History (2002) and Establishing Dress History (2004), both by Manchester University Press. Eleanor Thompson is Curator of Costume & Textiles at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery

Table of Contents

Foreword 6(1)
Victoria Messel
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation 6(1)
Preface 7(1)
Pauline Scott-Garrett
Introduction 8(4)
Amy de la Haye
Lou Taylor
Eleanor Thompson
Messel Family Dress Collection
Collecting, memory and imprints
12(14)
Amy de la Haye
Lou Taylor
Eleanor Thompson
The First & Second Generations
Family history, houses and the evolution of a dress collection
26(18)
Reena Suleman
Eleanor Thompson
Lou Taylor
The Third Generation
Biography and buying London fashion: Maud's lifestyle and surviving dress
44(22)
Eleanor Thompson
`Wonderfully picturesque'
Maud Messel's taste for medieval, exotic and romantic fashionable styles 1898--1960
66(26)
Lou Taylor
The Fourth Generation
History and Narrative: Anne Messel's style and evolving dress collection
92(20)
Amy de la Haye
The Rosse Family in Ireland
The heritage of Birr Castle, Demesne and Anne's patronage of Irish fashion
112(16)
Elizabeth McCrum
Lou Taylor
Objects of a Passion
The dress worn and collected by Anne Countess of Rosse 1935--1960
128(24)
Amy de la Haye
CONCLUSION The Fifth and Sixth Generations
Heritage, memory, dispersal and the survival of the Messel Dress Collection
152(16)
Lou Taylor
Appendix: A catalogue of the Messel Dress Collection 1870--2004 168(20)
Eleanor Thompson
Bibliography 188(1)
Index 189

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