Tamami Suoh

Published by the Kyoto Costume Institute, this book covers many of my favourite fashion periods, from the Rococo gowns of the 1700's, the whole sweep of the Victorian era, and the 1920's and 30's. The book goes right up to the 1990's (though the online digital archive stops at the 1940's, and it was really neat to see items from designers whose work I've seen at exhibitions before. The photographs are wonderful, and they often show excellent detail not just overall views. I wish that the KCI web site viewing tools worked with linux so that I could get some 360 views. The descriptions were good too, often bringing my attention to a detail that I would have otherwise missed.… (mais)