FOREWORDS: Sponsor's Foreword, Nadja Swarovski

Foreword, Jonathan Akeroyd

Director's Foreword, Martin Roth/ INTRODUCTION: In Search of the Sublime, Andrew Bolton

Edward Scissorhands, Claire Wilcox/ No. 1: A SENSE OF PLACE: Su[i]ture: Tailoring and the Fashion Metropolis, Christopher Breward

Clan MacQueen, Ghislaine Wood

Central Saint Martins, Louise Rytter

Drawing a Line, Abraham Thomas

The Early Years, Susannah Frankel/ No.2: ARTISTRY: Plato's Atlantis: Anatomy of a Collection, Claire Wilcox

Givenchy, Edwina Ehrman

Walking Out, Helen Persson

Refashioning Japan, Anna Jackson

Nature Boy, Jonathan Faiers/ No. 3: SENSIBLITY: A Gothic Mind, Catherine Spooner

Memento Mori, Eleanor Townsend

Layers of Meaning, Kirstin Kennedy

Wasteland/Wonderland, Zoe Whitley/ No. 4: VISCERA: Museum of the Mind, Lisa Skogh

The Cabinet of Curiosities

Modelling McQueen: Hard Grace, Caroline Evans

Armouring the Body, Clare Phillips

Crowning Glory, Oriole Cullen/ No. 5: SPECTACLE: Show, and Tell, Alexander Fury

Making-up, Janice Miller; Ghosts, Bill Sherman

Coup de Theatre, Keith Lodwick; Dance, Jane Pritchard/ No. 6: Imagination: The Shining and Chic, Alistair O'Neill

Fashion-able, Jefferson Hack

Nightmares and Dreams, Susanna Brown/ Encyclopedia of Collections: Kate Bethune/ Chronology

Notes

Further Reading

Acknowledgements

Picture Credits

Index