Aileen Ribeiro
Aileen Ribeiro is a historian of fashion.
She was educated at King's College London and The Courtauld Institute of Art, where she later became a professor and lectured on the history of dress.[1]
Works
- Visual History of Costume: Eighteenth Century (Batsford, 1983).
- Dress in Eighteenth Century Europe, 1715-89 (Batsford, 1984; 2nd edition 2002).
- The Dress Worn at Masquerades in England, 1730 to 1790, and Its Relation to Fancy Dress in Portraiture (Taylor & Francis, 1984).
- Dress and Morality (Batsford, 1986; 2nd edition 2003).
- Female Face (Tate, 1987).
- Fashion in the French Revolution (Batsford, 1988).
- (with Valerie Cumming), A Visual History of Costume (Batsford, 1989).
- Ingres in Fashion: Representations of Dress and Appearance in Ingres's Images of Women (Yale University Press, 1999).
- The Gallery of Fashion (National Portrait Gallery, 2000).
- Fashion and Fiction. Dress in Art and Literature in Stuart England (Yale University Press, 2005).
- ‘A 'most extraordinary figure, handsome and bold.' Gainsborough's Portrait of Ann Ford 1760’, in Benedict Leca (ed.), Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman (D Giles, 2010).
- Facing Beauty: Painted Women and Cosmetic Art (Yale University Press, 2011).