"Fashion historian and BBC television and radio presenter Amber Butchart tells the fascinating sartorial stories of 100 of the best-dressed people in history. From Eve's fig leaf to Beyoncé's Black Panther homage, the way we choose to adorn our bodies can carry layer upon layer of meaning. Clothing has been used to signify power, to dazzle and beautify, even to prop up or dismantle regimes. The Fashion Chronicles travels across five thousand years to chart these stories, from Cleopatra to Che Guevara, Joan of Arc to RuPaul. It is a history of the world, told in style."--Back cover.

Includes varied figures such as Eve, Tutankhamun, Sappho, Cleopatra, Roman Emperor Augustus, Theodora, Empress of the Byzantine Empire, Charlemagne, Joan of Arc, Thomas Cromwell, Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette, Oscar Wilde, Mati Hari, Vaslav Nijinsky, Sonia Delaunay, Amelia Earhart, Josephine Baker, Nehru, Frida Kahlo, Prince, David Bowie, Liberace and others.