Designer Hubert de Givenchy remains best known for the on- and off-screen "haute couture" fashions sported by Audrey Hepburn. Three paper dolls model 30 of Givenchy's elegant dresses, suits, gowns, and other garments from the 1950s-80s. Famous movie costumes include little black dresses from "Sabrin[...]

Elegant ball gowns and opera cloaks from the Belle Epoque, lovely summer frocks and tailored suits from the Roaring Twenties, seductive evening dresses from the 1930s, and dramatic cocktail dresses from the 1940s--including designs from Lanvin, Poiret, Worth, Adrian, Schiaparelli, Balenciaga, Balmai[...]

Invaluable collection of authentic costumes, based on historic sources and meticulously rendered by a noted fashion illustrator, displays over 550 costumes-from royal robes and peasant garments of the early 1600s to "bloomers" for active young ladies of the late nineteen century. Includes carefully [...]

Andrei Vinius's life and work attest to the importance of career bureaucrats in ushering Muscovy to a seat at the table of Europe's Great Powers in the Early Modern Age. Kees Boterbloem's study goes further and shows how some phenomena that we associate with mature capitalist economies and their imp[...]