Fashion category: 1172 books
The Artificial Body in Fashion and Art
Marionettes, Models and Mannequins
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Artificial bodies constructed in human likeness, from uncanny automatons to mechanical dolls, have long played a complex and subtle role in human identity and culture. This book takes a range of these bodies, from antiquity to the present day, to explore how we seek out echoes, caricatures and replications...
The Looks of Love
50 Moments in Fashion That Inspired Romance
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Hal Rubenstein, fashion authority, consultant, and author of the bestselling 100 Unforgettable Dresses, presents fifty of the most influential romantic moments in style from the 1930s to today, in this full-color collection that reveals each item's indelible place in the pantheons of fashion and popular...
by Elizabeth J. Lewandowski
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
While there are costume and fashion dictionaries tied to specific countries or periods, none have been comprehensive. In The Complete Costume Dictionary, Elizabeth Lewandowski has collected from a variety of sources—including costume history texts, journal articles, historical publications, autobiographies,...
Conversations
Up Close and Personal with Icons of Fashion, Interior Design, and Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Conversations began as a column for the Huffington Post where it initially featured fashion designers. Author Blue Carreon would ask his subjects to answer a fill-in-the-blanks type of questionnaire on topics that touch on many different aspects of our lives-from personal rituals to alternative careers...
by HARTISKA
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Born and established within the heart of New York City as the definite name for everything in high fashion, HARTISKA covers different artists, well-known people, as well as regular everyday folks who are creating masterpieces that inspire wonder and awe, and to entertain and inform with extensive...
Killer Fashion
Poisonous Petticoats, Strangulating Scarves, and Other Deadly Garments Throughout History
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Isadora Duncan was Red
Put on a scarf; popped off her head
Fashion is silly, thought Stein
It may tear your head from your spine
A darkly comic book about some surprisingly lethal garments. Featuring stories like the untimely demise of dancer Isadora Duncan caused by her signature red scarf...
Felt Fashion
Couture Projects From Garments to Accessories
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Felting is an ancient craft that enjoys an endless variety of forms and uses. Felt Fashion captures the art and sophistication that is possible with handmade felt, while keeping it simple and attainable for anyone to master. Whether it’s a collar or an entire dress, each project is irresistible...
African Dress
Fashion, Agency, Performance
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Dress and fashion practices in Africa and the diaspora are dynamic and diverse, whether on the street or on the fashion runway.
Focusing on the dressed body as a performance site, African Dress explores how ideas and practices of dress contest or legitimize existing power structures through...
Inside the Royal Wardrobe
A Dress History of Queen Alexandra
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Queen Alexandra used clothes to fashion images of herself as a wife, a mother and a royal: a woman who both led Britain alongside her husband Edward VII and lived her life through fashion. Inside the Royal Wardrobe overturns the popular portrait of a vapid and neglected queen, examining the surviving...
by Terry Newman
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Whether it’s Cecil Beaton’s flamboyant, classically tailored suits, Frida Kahlo’s love of bright color, or Cindy Sherman’s penchant for minimalism, an artist’s attire often reflects the creative and spiritual essence of his or her work. In Legendary Artists and the Clothes They Wore, fashion...
by Elizabeth Currie
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Dress became a testing ground for masculine ideals in Renaissance Italy. With the establishment of the ducal regime in Florence in 1530, there was increasing debate about how to be a nobleman. Was fashionable clothing a sign of magnificence or a source of mockery? Was the graceful courtier virile...
Jackie
The Clothes of Camelot
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis is the ultimate American fashion icon. Jay Mulvaney, author of Kennedy Weddings, celebrates her unique style in this lavishly illustrated book.
JACKIE: The Clothes of Camelot is a richly illustrated history of those magical years when the Kennedys captivated...
by Bergdorf Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
A stylish collection of 100 recipes from the renowned BG restaurant at the singular luxury shopping emporium. Incorporating recipes from the fashion community, this charming gift volume features the whimsical four-color art of renowned illustrator Konstantin Kakanias throughout.
The Bergdorf...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Color speaks a powerful cultural language, conveying political, sexual, and economic messages that, throughout history, have revealed how we relate to ourselves and our world. This ground-breaking compilation is the first to investigate how color in fashionable and ceremonial dress has played a significant...