The Art Nouveau movement overlapped with late Arts and Crafts in the 1890s and early Modernism in the 1910s, combining the exquisite workmanship and natural forms of the former with the innovative materials, forms and practices associated with the latter. Art Nouveau Fashion provides a fascinating introduction to the style, defining it and placing it in the context of design history by focusing on a number of important designers - Worth, Lucile, Paquin, Poiret - and key subjects such as jewellery and accessories, the role of advertising, artists as designers, and the relationships between designers and their clients.