Fashion : yesterday, today and tomorrow / Valerie Steele -- Cultures, identities, histories : fashioning a cultural approach to dress / Christopher Breward -- Fashion and glamour / Reka C.V. Buckley and Stephen Gundle -- Ethnic minimalism : a strand of 1990s British fashion identity explored via a contextual analysis of designs by Shirin Guild / Amy de la Haye -- The invisible man / Ian Griffiths -- Connecting creativity / Luigi Maramotti -- The chain store challenge / Brian Godbold -- The Hilfiger factor and the flexible commercial world of couture / Lou Taylor -- John Galliano : modernity and spectacle / Caroline Evans -- Luxury and restraint : minimalism in the 1990s fashion / Rebecca Arnold -- Italy : fashion, style and national identity, 1945-65 / Nicola White