2. I am deeply thankful to all those who help me to complete my project.
I am thankful to our mentors been the part of my hard work to complete the project.
AKSHAY SHARMA
B.Sc. Fashion technology +
2yrs. Advanced Diploma in Fashion technology
AKNOWLEDGEMENT
3. How Fashion Evolved
• Pre History – 600 B.C. :-
Ancient Egypt
Etruscans
Roman Empire
Classic Greek
Byzantine Empire
Peplos style
• Medieval romance and trade : 600-1449
• Renaissance splendor: 1450-1624
• Baroque & Rococo : 1625-1789
• From revolution to Frivolity: 1790-1900
• Le belle époque & jazz age : 1901-1928
• From glamour to utility: 1929-1946
• Optimism & youth : 1947-1963
• Swinging sixties to glam rock : 1964-1979
• Designer decade : 1980-onward
Fashion Timeline
4. • Almost all clothing worn by the ancient
Egyptians was of linen.
• Men wore schenti cloth wrapped around the
hips which hung in folds in front.
• Women wore a kalasiris (sheath-dress).
• Jewellery start to play an important role in
Egypt with gold being prized above other
metals.
• colored glass and semi precious gem,
including Red jasper, Camelian, and Garnet
are also used.
Ancient Egypt
Estate Figure, Middle Kingdom,
upper kingdom
The Narmer
Palette
comb with a
hippopotamus Cave painting, ancient Egypt
Queen NefertitiStatue Wearing Schenti
5. Ancient Egypt
Wig Ornament .dynasty-
12, 1887-1813 BCE
Cleopatra on Egyptian museum entrance Ancient Egyptian Jewellery
Broad collar (necklace)
6. • Before the rise of Roman Civilization a
people known as the Etruscans flourished in
Etruria(modern Tuscany).
• Etruscans enjoyed a comfortable lifestyle
and the means to dress up- as paintings,
sculpture, and pottery.
• Their clothes combined influences from both
Greece and Asia and included garments that
later became classic items of Roman wear.
• The purple robes of later Roman emperors
were also worn in Etruria.
Etruscans
Female fig.(bronze), 6th century BCE.
Terracotta statue of
young women.
Etruscan warrior.
Etruscan
painting
Etruscan bronze
statuette
Etruscan bronze
statuette
7. Roman Empire
Dress was carefully prescribed in roman society, especially
for men; rank and status determined whether the toga could
be worn and whether it might be colored..
• The memorable garment of roman male dress was the
toga, which was draped around the body over the arm .
• The toga with purple ( Aubergine ) border indicate high
status.
• A women's basic garment was the stola, which hung in
pleat from shoulders, which fastened with brooches or
clasps called fibulae.
• Madder (red), saffron (yellow), and indigo (blue) dyes
were available.
• Most garments were wool or linen. But silk was imported
for the wealthy.
• Leather sandals and boots protected feet such as
caliga, calcei.
• The wealthy women were curl and dress their hair using
ointment and calamistrum (curling irons),wig were also
used on that time.
Statue of the Emperor Tiberius
(draped toga of the 1st century AD.)
8. Roman Empire
Roman shoe discovered between 1970s.
Roman parade armor (made of
Crocodile skin 3th -4th century A.D.
Colossal marble foot Roman ( 1st -2nd A.D.)
Ornament with
eagle
Bracelet ( gold, glass
& emerald )
Gold pendant earing
with glass bead
Roman emperor
Constantine
9. Female fig. wearing Peplos 5th B.C.
Classic Greek
• The civilization of ancient Greece has left a rich
heritage to prosperity in her chaste and refined
simplicity of dress.
• in the study of Greek literature, paintings and
sculpture we may develop an appreciation of the
entire field of Greek costume.
• The dress for all the classes were the same except
for the difference in the quality of material and the
arrangement of cloth
• Ancient Greece primarily consisted of
the chiton, peplos, himation, and chlamys.
• men and women typically wore two pieces of
clothing draped about the body: an undergarment
(chiton or peplos) and a cloak (himation or
chlamys)
• Sources were found in the works of art such as
paintings, sculptures, coins, seals and engravings,
stained glass and written records.
Ancient Greek hair style .
Bust of Antinous
Myrtle Wreath (crown)
10. Classic Greek
Chiton
The chiton was a simple tunic garment of lighter
linen that was worn by both genders and all ages. It
consisted of a wide, rectangular tube of material
secured along the shoulders and upper arms by a
series of fasteners. Chitons typically fell to the
ankles of the wearer
Peplos
The peplos was a square piece of cloth that was
originally worn over the chiton. The top third of the
cloth was folded over and pinned at both shoulders,
leaving the cloth open down one side.
Chiton Peplos
11. Himation
The himation was a basic outer garment worn over
the peplos or chiton. It consisted of a heavy
rectangular material, passing under the left arm
and secured at the right shoulder. The cloak would
be twisted around a strap that also passed under
the left arm and over the right shoulder.
Classic Greek
Himation
Chlamys
The chlamys was a seamless rectangle of woolen
material worn by men for military or hunting
purposes. It was worn as a cloak and fastened at
the right shoulder with a brooch or button.
The chlamys was typical Greek military attire from
the 5th to the 3rd century BC
Chlamys (Re-creation )
12. • After the fall of Rome in 476 CE,
Constantinople (present-day Istanbul)
became the Centre of the Byzantine
world.
• The veils and silks worn by women.
• Some of the garments, notably the
pallium (cloak), chasuble (outer
garment), and dalmatikon (wide-
sleeved tunic),
• Gold, silver, pearl, amethyst, sapphire,
glass, quartz, and emerald plasma
were used.
• Poor working people wore plain
woolen tunics, knee-length for men,
with leggings, boots, and along cloak
on top..
Byzantine Cross Dalmatikon Empress Theodora
Jeweled Bracelet
Leggings Date ca.
8th century A.D silk
& linen T-shaped tunic
Leather shoes for
priest
Symbol of
byzantine empire
Byzantine World
18. Name:-Yves Saint Laurent
Born:- August 1, 1936
Birth Place:- Oran, Algeria
Yves Saint Laurent was a European
fashion designer born on August 1, 1936 in Oran,
Algeria. As a teen, he left for Paris to work for
designer Christian Dior and gained acclaim for his
dress designs. In 1966, he launched his own
fashion labels, where his adaptations of tuxedos for
women garnered him fame. He was the first living
designer to receive a solo exhibition in New York’s
Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1983. The Designer
died in Paris on June 1, 2008 from brain cancer.
Yves Saint Laurent
Illustration (from 1st collection) YSL Tuxedo
MONDRAIN DressTurban 1962
20. Coco Chanel
Name:-Gabriel Chanel
Born:- August 1, 1936
Birth Place:- Oran, Algeria
Coco Chanel, born in 1883 in a hospice for the
poor, was not Chanel’s actual birth-name. Her given
name was Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel.
At the tender age of 12, Chanel’s father left her and
her sisters in an orphanage after the passing of
their mother. It was at this convent that the nuns
taught Chanel how to sew. There are four signature
Chanel items that are on the must-have list of every
fashionista:
The jacket, the perfume, the little black dress and
the hand bags.
Chanel (right) with Harper's Bazaar editor Carmel Snow (left) in the
1950s. (Getty)
Chanel perfume N0 5 Chanel hand bag