Full name: Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Harold Koda Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fashion, History, Non Fiction, Art Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780300199659 0300199651

During the reigns of Louis XV (1723-74) and Louis XVI (1774-92), fashion and furniture were not simply meant to be beautiful but were also intended to arouse, attract, and seduce.  Published in response to the critically acclaimed and hugely popular exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum in the fall of 2004, Dangerous Liaisons focuses on fashion and its interplay with the paintings, furniture, and decorative arts of eighteenth-century France. Featuring beautiful color photographs of the exhibition's installation, details of the garments, and supplementary historical material, the book demonstrates how the extravagant clothing of the period reiterated the splendor of Rococo and Neoclassical interiors. Similar books: Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail by Avril Hart Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail by Lucy Johnston Eighteenth-Century Clothing at Williamsburg by Linda Baumgarten What Clothes Reveal by Linda Baumgarten 20,000 Years of Fashion by Francois Boucher The Coat Route by Meg Lukens Noonan The Art of Dress by Jane Ashelford Vivienne Westwood by Claire Wilcox Adorned in Dreams by Elizabeth Wilson Alexander McQueen by Kristin Knox Alexander McQueen by Andrew Bolton Deluxe by Dana Thomas The End of Fashion by Teri Agins D.V. by Diana Vreeland The Beautiful Fall by Alicia Drake The Power of Glamour by Virginia Postrel Women in Clothes by Sheila Heti The Little Dictionary of Fashion by Christian Dior Style Clinic by Paula Reed Men's Style by Russell Smith