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‘Provides a comprehensive range
of reference for students of fashion and all those professionally
engaged in the exploitation of vanity.’- Guardian
Fashions in Makeup is a unique book in its field and
a comprehensive history of cosmetics.
In this highly praised volume, Richard Corson chronicles the
pursuit of beauty from Ancient Egypt to the present day. Concentrating
mainly on makeup traditions of the Western world, with some
examples from other countries included for comparison,
Corson
describes the cosmetics with which men and women have decorated
their
faces, how they have applied them, and what they looked
like as a result.
This edition has an additional 16 new pages by fashion historian James
Sherwood to bring makeup trends up to the present day and
contains almost 700 illustrations. It is an essential
reference for students, makeup artists, costume designers,
actors, illustrators, beauty consultants, social historians
and all those interested in the use and application of cosmetics.
The book also makes fascinating reading for all those more
generally interested in the subject.
‘Chronicles in devastating detail the history of
that absorbing folly the pursuit of beauty . . . An encyclopedic
study, a valuable book of reference.’-Times
Literary Supplement
RICHARD CORSON taught theatrical makeup in colleges and universities
throughout the United States and worked as a theatrical makeup
consultant. His book, Stage Makeup, has become the
standard text on the subject, while his three valuable social
histories, Fashions in Makeup, Fashions in Hair and Fashions in Eyeglasses,
all published by Peter Owen, are renowned as classics in
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