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Sischy, Ingrid. "Coco Chanel. (Cover story)." Time 151.22 (1998): 98. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 1 Nov. 2010. This article is a retrospect from TIME magazine about the designer Coco Chanel. It talks about how other famous designers have copied some of Chanel's strategies. How she offered the people that wore her clothes were given the feeling of "hidden luxury" rather than outwardly ostentatious luxury. The article speaks about how Chanel constantly spoke of femininity rather than feminism. Chanel was part of a movement of designers that made fashion a type of art and expressing yourself. The article also talks about the way that Chanel "stuck it to the man", so to speak. It speaks about her early life and how she got to be the famous designer that she ended her life as

Straub, Anne. "Ruth Funk". Ornament. 2009. 33:1. 56-61. Anne Straub focuses on designer Ruth Funk who brings styles from the '70s into today's fashions. Straub explains that Ruth finds her inspiration from designs from the '70s movement, but brings her own personal style into it. This article proves that the '70s fashion movement still influences many designers today. Funk is even influenced by simple patterns from the '70s. This article will help me use examples of designers from today using patterns and styles from the '70s.

Mason, Brook S. "Dazzling DECO." Art & Antiques 27.3 (2004): 108-115. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This article includes a brie history includint where Art Deco got its name, some founding designers and the previous artistic movements that founded Art Deco. There is a focus on the cost of an original Art Deco piece today- it could be anywhere up to 3 million dollars. The prices are so high due to the unique materials the art was made out of. The article mentions specific examples of major Art Deco art including the Chrysler Building. There is also mention of how Art Deco is in effect today as well as examplesof current designers.

Jennings, Tracy. "Sades of Chanel". Clothing and Textiles Research Journal. ohioLINK. Web. 3 Nov 2010. This is about how Chanel's work has influenced this person to make their own design. How Chanel's past work is seen in every aspect from the design, color and to the cut and fabric of the suit.

Benton, Tim. "Dreams of Machines: Futurism and l'Esprit Nouveau." Journal of Design History 3.1 (1990):19-34. JSTOR. Web.17 Nov. 2010. This article contains the views of Reyner Banham on Futurism and its affect on the theory and design of machines. It analyses the thoughts of Filippo Marinetti, who wrote the Maniifesto. Specifically it engages in the development of the automobile. Futurism had a part in the development in many things especially in car advancement.

"Now & Then Great Fashion" People 7. October 2009: 103-104. This magazine article is an interview with many famous fashion designers, discussing the trends of the seventies and the trends of today. It discusses fashion worn by some of the first ladies in history, and then mentions today's first lady, Michelle Obama. This article will help me a lot because it has fashion designers opinions on different trends throughout generations.

This article goes through the differences between Art Deco and Art Noueau with the specific focus on lighting. The way the article picks one specific element to compare makes the difference between the two styles very obvious. One major difference is that the Art Noueau lamps needed to be turned on to be seen as art where the Art Deco lamps were pieces of art without even being in use. Several specific designers were descibed as well as their lighting pieces. The article was very interesting, because lighting is not something that is usually thought of as art but it can be if seen through an Art Deco lense.

This is a shorter article from the UK vogue website. It gives the main facts about Chanel's life. When she lived and died. How she got started with her fashion line. About the building where the clothes are still designed. Not a very long article but it gives the important facts about Coco Chanels life.

Davis, Mary. "Chanel, Stravinsky, and Musical Chic." Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture 10.4 (2006): 431-460. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Nov. 2010.

This article is about how Chanel change the fashion world. How she went to the streets of France to get the inpiration for her designs. The simple style was the new Chic after the war. Being comfortable took precedence over the elegance of an outfit. The article also is about how her style changed otherr aspects of modern art in the 1900s.

Martin, Marilyn. "Art Deco Architecture in South Africa." The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 20 (1994): 8-37. JSTOR. Web. 16 Nov. 2010.\n\nThis source focuses on a location that is not usually associated with Art Deco: South Africa. There is mention notonly of the designers of the art, but also of the architects who were actually building the structures. Quotes from architechs about the buidings as well as pictures are included. This article does a great job of using descriptions and imagery to describe the buildings. This article was very interesting because it is not common knowledge that Art Deco was popular in South Africa and it was interesting to learn about the history of the movement there.

Shapiro, Kelli. "From Modernism to McDonald's." Journal of Architectural Education 61.2 (2007): 6-14. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010.\n\nSince the 1970s, the Miami Design Preservation League has been working to preserve the many Art Deco buildings in South Beach. The efforts were successful and South Beach is now a historical district. It was both interesting and informative to read that pieces of Art Deco are now considered historical and are being protected. The article mentions that some buildings have begun to deteriorate with age. Examples of historical pieces of Art Deco are included with many photographs.

Krick, Jessa. "Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) and the House of Chanel". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Web. 15 Nov. 2010.
This article rather than being a biography about her life this is mainly about the revolution of her clothing line. How she first got started and her early successes. Then it goes on to describe how she became the style icon of of her time. Also it outlines how she had to close the doors to her store when France went into World War II. Then it talks about how she made her come back after the war was over. The last part of the article talks about how even through her her death her legened as a designer lives on.

Harrod, Tanya. "Review: Art Deco 1910-1939. London." The Burlington Magazine Vol. 145 No. 1203 (Jun., 2003): 462-4. JSTOR. Web. 16 Nov. 2010

This article focuses on an Art Deco exhibit in a London museum. Many examples of Art Deco are described through explaining what the exhibit consisted of. Through describing Art Deco, the article makes the differences clear between both the Art Noueau and Modernism movements. Several designers, fans and examples of Art Deco are listed. This article was helpful because through describing the exhibit, different examples and mediums of Art Deco are explained.

Davis, Mary E. "Classical Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism". University of California Press. 2006. Print. This book is all about Classical Chic during the modernism movement. There are many different chapters including an entire chapter on Coco Chanel. The chapter started out by talking about she influenced the 1920s and the 1930s. How she turned around the fashion of the time. She kept the ideas of the "liberated women" and applied it to all of her work. It goes through each of her steps to how she became the iconic fashion designer she is today. Also, each of the types of article of clothing that made her so iconic. It then goes on to talk about how the label as taken over after her death.

Smith, Ray A. "'70s Style: Ridiculous or Right On?" Wall Street Journal-Eastern Edition 256 October 2010. This article focuses on today's fashion shown in several fashion shows this fall. The author, Ray A Smith, notices the parallels between today's fashion shown on the runways versus the fashion shown on the runways in the '70s. Smith investigates reasons as to why many designers today bring back styles from the '70s. This article will help me understand and be able to notice the close similarities between today's fashion to the fashion of the '70s.

Soll, Lindsay. "The Swinging '70s." Entertainment Weekly 1001. July 2008: 20-20. This article discusses the influence of seventies fashion in today's culture. Lindsay Soll, the author, researches the TV show, "Swingtown" which takes place in the '70s. Soll describes the fashion and jewlery used in the show. Soll also discusses how the "Swingtown" costume designer found the authentic look from the '70s for the cast. This article lets me see the style of the 70s through writing and clips of the TV show, and what are the most authentic look of the 70s.

Ingrassia, Michele and Biddle, Nina Archer. "The color of Barbie". Newsweek. 16 January 1995. Authors Ingrassia and Biddle, discuss how the '70s and earlier decades brought color in to fashion. In particular, the color pink. It's hard not to notice that in fashion today the color black is most prevailent followed by brown. Designers have began to incorporate patters with colors based on looks from the '70s and '60s. This article will help me discuss the influence of not only patterns and designs from the '70s but also now colors.

Hip-hop style, a controversial dress form associated with rap music culture in the 1990s, is analyzed and interpreted based on premises associated with structural approaches to semiotics. The semiotic system is isolated in time, and three coding operations are considered in terms of the relationships they establish between elements of the system and potential meanings ascribed to these: paradigmatic alignment (bipolar opposition), denotation and connotation (literal and extended descriptions), and figurative devices (implied figures of speech). Results reveal the structure of the system in terms of a dialectic between signs in the hip-hop system and signs in the system of conventional dress. Components of the rule system of conventional dress are exposed, and figurative language supporting the hip-hop system is described. The hip-hop system is construed as an example of a larger category of appearance-related systems designated extraordinary dress, poised in opposition to ordinary appearance forms. Implications include potential contributions to theory development. (From the OhioLINK abstract.)

Kagan, Dick. "Deco Mania." Art & Antiques 28.11 (2005): 58-63. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This article focuses on vintage Art Deco today. The main focus is on the furniture designed in France between 1910 and 1939. These pieces were wonderfully made out of unique and rare materials, which makes then extremely valuable and therefore very expensive. Opinions from both buyers and sellers of these French antiques are included. This article is helpful in understanding that Art Deco is still a style that people would pay for today.