Fashion category: 1172 books
by Frenchy Lunning
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Fetish Style traces the history, forms and tendencies of sub-cultural fashions that are popular in both mainstream and alternative fashion cultures.
Presenting the world of subcultural fetish clothing design in all of its richness and beauty, this book explores the idea of fetish as subversive...
Transorientalism in Art, Fashion, and Film
Inventions of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Combining transnationalism and exoticism, transorientalism is the new orientalism of the age of globalization. With its roots in earlier times, it is a term that emphasizes alteration, mutation, and exchange between cultures.
While the familiar orientalisms persist, transorientalism is a term that...
by Adam Geczy, Vicki Karaminas
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Popular culture in the latter half of the twentieth century precipitated a decisive change in style and body image. Postwar film, television, radio shows, pulp fiction and comics placed heroic types firmly within public consciousness. This book concentrates on these heroic male types as they have...
Striking Their Modern Pose
Fashion, Gender, and Modernity in Galdós, Pardo Bazán, and Picón
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
The importance of fashion in the construction and representation of gender and the formation of modern society in nineteenth-century Spanish narrative is the focus of Dorota Heneghan's Striking Their Modern Pose. The study moves beyond traditional interpretations that equate female passion for finery...
Couture Hats
From the Outrageous to the Refined
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Since the recent royal wedding, couture hats and headpieces are gaining more attention than ever before. Featured on guests from Victoria Beckham to Sarah Ferguson’s daughter, Princess Beatrice, whimsical and sculptural hats are now splashed across the pages of fashion magazines, advertisements,...
Red Lipstick
An Ode to a Beauty Icon
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
A unique, full-color compendium that celebrates and explores the enduring power and allure of the world’s most iconic lip shade, jam-packed with entertaining stories, anecdotes, little-known facts, quotes, and more than 100 gorgeous images culled from fine art, photography, and beauty and fashion...
Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet
Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
In the first ever book devoted to a critical investigation of the personal style blogosphere, Minh-Ha T. Pham examines the phenomenal rise of elite Asian bloggers who have made a career of posting photographs of themselves wearing clothes on the Internet. Pham understands their online activities as...
Ballets Russes Style
Diaghilev's Dancers and Paris Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
In the two decades between its debut performance and the death of impresario Sergei Diaghilev in 1929, the Ballets Russes was an unrivalled sensation in Paris and around the world. But while scholarly attention has often centered on the links between Diaghilev’s troupe and modernist art and music,...
by Denise L'estrange Corbet
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
A fascinating memoir from one of New Zealand's leading fashion designers. This is Denise's L'Estrange Corbet's honest and frank account of her turbulent life - from her difficult childhood through to her successful business life today. She covers the emotional landscape of her childhood, her malevolent...
21 Outrageous but Effective Beauty Tips
21 Book Series
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
I want to look and feel my best but I don’t want to spend a fortune in the process! I have compiled 21 amazing beauty tips that are affordable and time efficient. You can do all of these things at home and save on costly salon and product prices. Theses are my go-to techniques that I frequently...
DIY Style
Fashion, Music and Global Digital Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Armed with cheap digital technologies and a fiercely independent spirit, millions of young people from around the world have taken cultural production into their own hands, crafting their own clothing lines, launching their own record labels, and forging a vast, collaborative network of impassioned...
by Andi Eaton
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
After more than three hundred years, New Orleans style is not just sartorial but also venerable. A melting pot of cultures gives rise to the diverse fashion influences of French sophistication, Spanish exuberance and deep Creole roots. Classic trends like jazz style, the ebullient irreverence of Mardi...
by Doreen Diggs
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
This Book is based upon my personal (Fashion Jewelry) Collection, along with Few pieces Ive design. Ive accumulated some jewelry over the years and now Ive had them photographed and put into this little book, just to share with other Women like myself, who are also passionate about jewelry.
Fabricating Transnational Capitalism
A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
In this innovative collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese ventures in the fashion industry, Lisa Rofel and Sylvia J. Yanagisako offer a new methodology for studying transnational capitalism. Drawing on their respective linguistic and regional areas of expertise, Rofel and Yanagisako show how...