Fashion category: 1172 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
For at least two centuries, fashion and art have maintained a competitive love-hate relationship. Both fashion and art construct imaginary worlds, and use a language of style to invigorate beliefs, perceptions and ideas.
Until now the crossovers of fashion and art have received only scattered...
3D Fashion Design
Technique, design and visualization
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Digital technologies in fashion are becoming more accessible and now any creative with a basic knowledge of fashion design and computing can create convincing still or animated 3D visualizations of styles, designs and products. With this technology, the designer is able to present a lifelike design...
20th-Century Fashion Illustration
The Feminine Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
This fascinating retrospective chronicles the rise and development of modern fashion illustration from the early 1900s to the dawn of the twenty-first century. Its lively narration, illustrated by over seventy original works by fashion's top illustrators, explores the social context of fashion illustration...
American Runway
75 Years of Fashion and the Front Row
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
New York Fashion Week has served many purposes throughout its long history, but it has always remained at the center of the American fashion world. During World War II, Fashion Week challenged the dominance of French couture; in the 1970s and 1980s, it was a showcase for American sportswear stars...
Fashion Studies
Research Methods, Sites, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The study of fashion has expanded into a thriving field of inquiry, with researchers utilizing diverse methods from across subject disciplines to explore fashion and dress in wide-ranging contexts. With an emphasis on material culture and ethnographic approaches in fashion studies, this groundbreaking...
Fashion on Television
Identity and Celebrity Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Fashion on Television provides a comprehensive critical examination of the intersection between fashion, television and celebrity culture. The book brings together theoretical approaches to the symbolic force of television and fashion-forward programming on a global scale.
Examining case studies...
Fashion and Jazz
Dress, Identity and Subcultural Improvisation
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Born in the late 19th century, jazz gained mainstream popularity during a volatile period of racial segregation and gender inequality. It was in these adverse conditions that jazz performers discovered the power of dress as a visual tool used to defy mainstream societal constructs, shaping a new fashion...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Teaching Fashion Studies is the definitive resource for instructors of fashion studies at the undergraduate level and beyond. The first of its kind, it offers extensive, practical support for both seasoned instructors and those at the start of an academic career, in addition to interdisciplinary educators...
Fashion, Agency, and Empowerment
Performing Agency, Following Script
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Fashion has always been strongly linked with the politics of gender and equality. In this global and interdisciplinary collection, leading authors explore the relationships between the dressed body, fashion, sex, and power, with an emphasis on the role of dress in both reinforcing and challenging...
Dress Code
The Naked Truth About Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
As Oscar Wilde once wrote, “Fashion is a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months.” And yet it serves to make us beautiful, or at least make us feel beautiful. In this book, Mari Grinde Arntzen asks how and why this is—how can fashion simultaneously...
The Fashion Design Reference & Specification Book
Everything Fashion Designers Need to Know Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
An essential primer for students and first-stop reference for professionals, The Fashion Design Reference & Specification Book takes the fashion designer through the entire design process, from conceiving a garment to marketing it.
This valuable handbook contains the information and ideas...
by Kate Nelson Best
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
The History of Fashion Journalism is a uniquely comprehensive study of the development of the industry from its origins to the present day, and including professionals' such as Dylan Jones's vision of the future. Covering everything from early tailor's catalogues through to contemporary publications...
Fifty Fashion Looks that Changed the World (1960s)
Design Museum Fifty
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The Design Museum and fashion guru Paula Reed present Fifty Fashion Looks that Changed the 1960s. The most exciting, influential and definitive looks of one of the most significant decades in fashion!
The Design Museum's mission is to celebrate, enterain and inform. It is the world's leading...
by Urbanity Chic
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
In a vibrant and dynamic format Style and Creativity In Fashion gives you an in-depth insight into fashion icons, models, designers and photographers working within the fashion industry. Each chapter in this book explores the experiences, achievements and aspirations of these incredibly talented people....