Fashion category: 1172 books
by Millicent Wycoff
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2015
Appears we are at it again at Comedy Crochet and here's another addition to our family of patterns that you can easily make in no time.This summer go ahead and become the leader of the fashionista pack wearing these beautiful hot fashion barefoot toe summer sandals.Display those beautiful pedicured...
Modest Fashion
Styling Bodies, Mediating Faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Modest dressing, both secular and religious, is a growing trend across the world, yet so far it has been given little serious attention and is rarely seen as fashion. Modest Fashion uniquely studies and addresses both the consumers and the producers of modest clothing. It examines the growing number...
The First Book of Fashion
The Book of Clothes of Matthaeus and Veit Konrad Schwarz of Augsburg
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This captivating book reproduces arguably the most extraordinary primary source documents in fashion history. Providing a revealing window onto the Renaissance, they chronicle how style-conscious accountant Matthäus Schwarz and his son Veit Konrad experienced life through clothes, and climbed the...
by Geraldine Wijsbeek
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In Fashion Feng Shui for Men, Geraldine Wijsbeek presents the practice of Fashion Feng Shui® in clear and concise terms to guys. Now celebrating its 20th year, Fashion Feng Shui® is a revolutionary image practice that applies five-element wisdom to personal style and well-being. Its holistic approach...
Cool Shades
The History and Meaning of Sunglasses
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Cool Shades provides the first in-depth exploration of the enduring appeal of sunglasses in visual culture, both historically and today.
Ubiquitous in fashion, advertising, film and graphic design, sunglasses are the ultimate signifier of 'cool' in mass culture; a powerful attribute pervading...
by Ariel Beaujot
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
*In Victorian England, women's accessories were always much more than incidental finishing touches to their elaborate dress. Accessories helped women to fashion their identities.Victorian Fashion Accessories explores how women's use of gloves, parasols, fans and vanity sets revealed their class, gender...
Frocking Life
Searching for Elsa Schiaparelli
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
At an early age, BillyBoy* chose two mentors: Bugs Bunny and Elsa Schiaparelli. From Bugs Bunny, he learned the basics of how to behave in society and how to manage life’s wicked turns; to be coy, smart, witty, and to always dress appropriately with the assurance of Beau Brummell. But most of all,...
Fashionability
Abraham Moon and the creation of British cloth for the global market
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Fashion studies is a burgeoning field that often highlights the contributions of genius designers and high-profile brands with little reference to what goes on behind the scenes in the supply chain. This book pulls back the curtain on the global fashion system of the past 200 years to examine the...
Fashion Climbing
A Memoir with Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
**The New York Times bestseller
“[An] obscenely enjoyable romp.” —The New York Times Book Review
The untold story of a New York City legend's education in creativity and style**
For Bill Cunningham, New York City was the land of freedom, glamour, and, above all, style....
House of Versace
The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Versace. The very name conjures up images of outrageous glamour and bold sexuality, opulence and daring. All of course true, but only half the story. Versace is also the legacy of a great creative genius from a poor, backward part of southern Italy who transformed the fashion world through his intuitive...
Transglobal Fashion Narratives
Clothing Communication, Style Statements and Brand Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Everywhere we look, people are using fashion to communicate self and society—who they are, and where they belong. Transglobal Fashion Narratives presents an international, interdisciplinary analysis of those narratives. Moving from sweatshop to runway, page to screen, camera to blog, and artist...
by Pierre A. Lehu, Jill Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Your full-color guide to building a fun, functional wardrobe
Fashion For Dummies takes the guess out of dress, giving you the confidence and know-how you need to dress for every occasion. This full-color guide is packed with tips on creating a confusion-free wardrobe that works with your body...
by Mary Brooks Picken
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This vintage book contains an exhaustive dictionary of fashion terms, with instructions for pronunciation, brief explanations, and lists of synonyms. Timeless and comprehensive, “The Language Of Fashion Dictionary And Digest Of Fabric, Sewing And Dress” will be of utility to those involved in...
Champagne Supernovas
Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and the '90s Renegades Who Remade Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
“Terrifically exciting and fun” (Publishers Weekly), Champagne Supernovas is “a lucid, smoothly executed look at a pivotal decade in the legacy of American fashion” (Kirkus Reviews) as told through the lives of Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, and Alexander McQueen—the three iconic personalities...