Fashion category: 1172 books
Couture Confessions ebook
Twentieth-Century Fashion Icons in Their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Late legendary couturiers of modern fashion speaking eloquently about life, design, and inspiration. Vionnet, Chanel, Dior, Saint Laurent, McQueen—these names define haute couture, and long after the designers have passed away, their influence on fashion continues to be profound. In an exceptional...
by Sarah Jane Downing
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011
The broader Regency period 1795 to 1820, stands alone as an incredible moment in fashion history, unlike anything that went before it. For the first time England became a fashion influence, especially for menswear, and became the toast of Paris, as court dress became secondary to the season-by-season...
by Kate Haulman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Here, Kate Haulman explores how and why fashion--both as a concept and as the changing style of personal adornment--linked gender relations, social order, commerce, and political authority during...
The Pursuit of Style
Advice and Musings from America's Top Fashion Designers
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Style is an all-new, original collection of clever, charming, and often hilarious musings from American fashion’s biggest designers. The book culls the best pieces of advice and insight from a survey conducted by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA)...
Medieval and Renaissance Fashion
90 Full-Color Plates
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Knights clad in chain mail populate these pages, alongside crowned heads in royal regalia and common folk in their finest apparel. Scrupulously authentic in every detail, these images offer colorful portraits that span centuries of fashion, from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance.Raphaël Jacquemin...
Sustainable Fashion and Textiles
Design Journeys
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Praise for the previous edition:
"[A] fascinating book." John Thackara, Doors of Perception
"Provides the foundations for a radical new perspective." Ethical Pulse
"At last a book that dispels the idea that fashion is only interested in trend-driven fluff:...
The Wardrobe Wakeup
Your Guide to Looking Fabulous at Any Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
In a fashion world that constantly speaks to youth, The Wardrobe Wakeup, is an essential look book for every woman 40+. Leading fashion and beauty editor Lois Joy Johnson shares style-boosting, closet reviving, money-saving fashion tricks she's learned over thirty years working with A-list models,...
by Debbie Hartsog
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Want to become a fashionista-for real? Get this book! Fun and entertaining, Creative Careers in Fashion reveals how the fashion industry works-and explores the vast range of career opportunities in the field. Focusing on the most creative jobs, including accessory, costume, and fashion design, as...
Fashion Design
Process, Innovation and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Shows how the design process can be successfully applied to satisfy market needs and trends
Fashion design seems to be a glamorous mystery for which only the fortunate few have sufficient talent to succeed. In reality, commercially successful results can be achieved if the right processes are...
by Gaynor Lea-Greenwood
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Fashion is all about image. Consequently, fashion marketing communications – encompassing image management and public relations, branding, visual merchandising, publicity campaigns, handling the media, celebrity endorsement and sponsorship, crisis management etc. – have become increasingly important...
Fashion Victims
The Catty Catalogue of Stylish Casualties, From A to Z
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Pairing hilarious poetry with the stunning collage work for which he is famous, Michael Roberts takes on the fashion world letter by letter—and in the way only a true insider can—in Fashion Victims. This gorgeous, stylish book illustrated and written by the Vanity Fair fashion director, influential...
Fashion Victims
The Dangers of Dress Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
From insidious murder weapons to blaze-igniting crinolines, clothing has been the cause of death, disease and madness throughout history, by accident and design. Clothing is designed to protect, shield and comfort us, yet lurking amongst seemingly innocuous garments we find hats laced with mercury,...
Where Stylists Shop
The Fashion Insider's Ultimate Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The Secret Source List of Designers, Stylists, Editors, Bloggers, Models, Costume Designers, Street-Style Stars, and Tastemakers
Booth Moore, longtime fashion journalist and Senior Fashion Editor at The Hollywood Reporter, brings together her A-list contact list and exceptional fashion industry...
Craft of Use
Post-Growth Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This book explores the ‘craft of use’, the cultivated, ordinary and ingenious ideas and practices that promote satisfying and resourceful use of garments, presenting them as an alternative, dynamic, experiential frame with which to articulate and foster sustainability in the fashion sector.
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