- Modernity Rising: The Age of Worth
- An Empire of Fashion
- Revolution in the Air
- Into a New Century: Backward, Forward, and Sideways
- The Fading of Europe: The American Age Begins
- The Ground Shifts
- "What a Drag It Is Getting Old"
- The Flesh Failures (Let the Sun Shine In)
- The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
- High Fashion and Art
- The "End of History"
- Millennium Schmillennium
- We Are Caught: Trendspotting in the Early Twenty-First Century
- Thresholds
- "Looking Forward/Looking Back," demonstrates how motives similar to those that drove relationship between high fashion and society during the hundred years of fashion continue to affect those interactions today
- End-of-chapter boxes contain extracts from recent newspaper articles to generate discussion comparing the role of high fashion in the past and present
- The timeline in the appendix provides a chronological framework of events and trends
- 16-page color insert illustrates key examples of the work of the six designers whose stories form the core of the narrative
- Instructor's Guide provides suggestions for planning the course and using the text in the classroom
- PowerPoint Presentation lists discussion topics for each chapter and provide diagrams of the influences and relationships discussed in the text in the classroom