Secondary Sources

An introduction to fashion illustration

c. 1980

The following secondary sources are a curated selection of items relating to fashion plates in the ROM Library & Archive’s collections. Some of the items listed below are compilations of famous fashion plates; academic texts relating to fashion plates, etc. Additional secondary sources are available. Please search our library holdings via the UTL catalogue. Please also see the following section of this virtual exhibit related to Reproductions.

Alice Mackrell. An illustrated history of fashion : 500 years of fashion illustration.  New York : Costume & Fashion Press, 1997.

Madeleine Ginsburg.  An introduction to fashion illustration.  Owings Mills, Md. : Stemmer House, c1980.

April Calahan. Fashion Plates: 150 Years of Style. New York : Yale University Press, 2015.

Krieg und Kleider : Mode und Grafik zur Zeit des Ersten Weltkriegs 1914-1918. für die Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, herausgegeben von Adelheid Rasche ; mit einem Vorwort von Moritz Wullen und Beitragen von Birgit Haase, Adelheid Rasche und Raffaella Sgubin. Berlin : Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin ; Leipzig : E.A. Seemann, 2014.

Linda Kathryn Pilgrim. La Gazette du bon ton : arts, modes, and frivolités : an analysis of fashion and modernity through the lens of a French journal de luxe . Ann Arbor, Michigan : UMI, c2002.

Madeleine Delpierre. Le costume de 1914 aux anneés folles. Paris : Flammarion, 1997.

John L. Nevinson. Origin and early history of the fashion plate. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1967.

Jane Mulvagh ; with a foreword by Valerie D. Mendes. Vogue history of 20th century fashion.  London : Viking, c1988.