Original title: Geschichte der Mode im 20. Jahrhundert.

Beginnings of Haute Couture -- Clothes and fashion -- Fashion as art? -- Haute couture, pret-a-porter, and ready-made clothes -- The omnipresence of fashion -- Changing shapes -- Fashion and gender -- Charles Frederick Worth and the beginning of haute couture -- Fashion for women and clothes for men -- The hat -- Reform groups -- The fashion department of the Vienna Workshops -- Paul Poiret, artist and reformer -- New shapes, new materials, new colors -- Orientalism in fashion -- Mariano Fortuny -- Fashion lines before the Great War -- Futurism -- Pause for war -- The Roaring Twenties -- Postwar Europe -- Fashion and the modern arts -- New self-confidence, new fashion -- Fashion for all -- An all too manly femininity -- Coco Chanel -- Androgyny -- Severe elegance -- Eveningwear -- Accessories -- Trends in men's fashion -- Dandies and tramps -- New fashion houses -- Once again, Futurism -- Sonia Delaunay -- Russian rational dress -- The Triadic Ballet -- Fashion in Times of Crisis -- Change of scene -- Fashion and the movies -- Changing shapes -- Fashion, design, and lifestyle -- Fashion designers of the 1930s -- Nina Ricci's fashion empire -- Madeleine Vionnet -- Madame Gres -- Coco Chanel -- Fashion and Surrealism: Elsa Schiaparelli -- The international scene -- Wartime improvisation -- The New Look in Full Swing -- Theatre de la mode -- A newcomer creates the New Look -- Everyday fashion -- Men's fashion -- The new masters -- Pierre Balmain -- Jacques Fath -- Hubert de Givenchy -- Christian Dior.