1950s Fashion Prints: A Sourcebook

This book is an easy way to identify fabrics quickly without getting bogged down with lots of academic text. It is one I can just pick up and peruse at any time as it has has good quality pictures and colour. delighted with it. As my first interest was furnishing fabrics I was at first put off by the title Fashion fabrics, but it has plenty of information on both.

This is a book full of delights, I saw it at someone's house and I had to buy it. It is an amazing sourcebook for design and colour. I use it as a reference for my - very amateur - watercolours. Just a lovely book, If you are interested in colour, design, fashion, the 50s you'll love it.

This book is full of beautiful 50s fabric patterns ranging from figurative to natural forms to real atomic americana style pieces.Some writing but mostly lots of full page colour images.I bought this as an aid to my Art Alevel teaching, and it has been great.

Once again Marnie Fogg captivates us with fashion and fabric with the arrival of `1950s Fashion Print'This book engages us into a romance of how fashion print embraced its future after WW2, its restrictions and seized a new sense of modern industrialisation and utilisation.Fogg breaks down the books synopsis through five fundamental sections; `Abstraction' welcomes an exploration of freedom through everyday substance manipulation. For example the human form and focus upon shape. `The Narrative, Novelty and The Jive' celebrates the birth of conversational print through movement and symmetry. `Artistic Licence' illustrates how fashion print from the fifties delivered such a spontaneous assault on pattern through its depicted fabric and design and lastly `Kinetic' being the principals that governed the making of print through motion whilst celebrating a shift of women being the hostesses within the newly modern suburbia.With focuses on textile designers such as Lucienne Day and fabric market leader David Whitehead Ltd each section reads beautifully whilst displaying an intensity between the written word and captured fabric, some examples even find you brushing your hand over each sample in order to understand a sense of how the designer communicated with the fabric and general census of the 1950s new found ideology.Fogg's book successfully conveys how this decade developed in style and depth. From well known references to Abstract Expressionists Jackson Pollock and Paul Klee and illustrative reference towards periods such as Futurism and Cubism I can see a link between fifties Graphic Designer Paul Rand for his collage and pattern making design process and it is interesting to note just how each artist in their medium whether a painter, graphic or textile printer became as one to create such striking examples that we exploit even in today's age through examples such as expressionist wallpaper and vintage clothing.I fell in love with this book and feel that anyone who enjoys textiles and print would fair the same way.

Good value for money.

The Fifties!what could be better?A period of enlightenment,new beginnings and a fresh face for design Fogg will plunge you into the era of design with her captivating language,picture perfect typography and the sumptuous illustrations and designs of artists such as Sylvia Chambers and Lucienne Day. Fogg will take you by the hands and lead you through the era from the Abstract to the Expressive to the jaunty kinetic art that is so beautifully presented on the outer binding of the book till your fingers are tingling with inspiration and creativity. For any designer or enthusiast this is a must read,with passionate flourishing language intertwined with Fogg's extensive knowledge upon the subject the reader is truly entranced in the entire era desperate to return again and again.A must have!

This book really is splendid - lovely texturised jacket and sumptuously illustrated. The inside of it doesn't disappoint either. The 50s are really in right now, with Mad Men being so popular on TV and countless films being set in the same period. This book satisfies any desire you might have to wallow in the gorgeousness of 50s fabric and textile designs. You can really imagine Don Draper having a meeting with a Lucienne Day wallpaper in the background!Marnie Fogg writes accessibly and engagingly on the subject and takes you through this period of innovative and exciting design in a lively style. Highly recommended!

1950's Fashion Print brings the '50's back on every page, with glossy, colour prints of the fabric and wallpaper of the time. Every baby boomer will recognize the colour combinations and edgy designs from their childhood and wonder where all of those good things went & where they can find them again. A great buy.