Textile Costume category: 195 books
Peacock & Vine
On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
From the winner of the Booker Prize: A ravishing book that opens a window into the lives, designs, and passions of Mariano Fortuny and William Morris, two remarkable artists who themselves are passions of the writer A. S. Byatt.
Born a generation apart in the mid-1800s, Fortuny and Morris...
by LaLonnie Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
The Great Gatsby is that rare classic that inescapably defines the age from which it sprang: the Roaring '20s, an era of economic boom, stylish excess and above all an explosion of new and exciting fashions. This book chronicles the sparkling spectacle of Jazz Age fashion as it moves from the corseted...
Modern Fashion Traditions
Negotiating Tradition and Modernity through Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Modern Fashion Traditions questions the dynamics of fashion systems and spaces of consumption outside the West. Too often, these fashion systems are studied as a mere and recent result of globalization and Western fashion influences, but this book draws on a wide range of non-Western case studies...
Swinging Britain
Fashion in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Travel back in time to the era when Carnaby Street led the world, a golden age of youthful innovation and exhilarating pop culture, and a fashion scene that defined a generation.
The 1960s was one of the most exciting fashion decades of the twentieth century, during which British pop and youth...
by Anita Larman
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book gives you the basics about about what clothing you need if you have an inverted triangle shaped body. Since you have wide shoulders you need to know tips and techniques for dressing.
The book covers topics on how to wear:
Tops
Trousers
Wedding dresses
Skirts
Pants
Bra
by Marie Rowland
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
No matter how often you hear that you look great or that you’re luckier than others, it’s still impossible to avoid the ever-present pressure to be skinny like a model on a billboard. Advertising everywhere focuses on an unrealistic ideal, an image of a woman who looks incredible in every piece...
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...
How to Read a Dress
A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable. With overviews of each key period and detailed illustrations for each new style, How to Read a Dress is an authoritative...
Stylish Wraps Sewing Book
Ponchos, Capes, Coats and More - Fashionable Warmers that are Easy to Sew (Download for Patterns to Print)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This DIY sewing book presents a fabulous new collection of lightweight wraps that are easy to sew and look fantastic!
Stylish Wraps Sewing Book provides five free full-sized patterns that can be used to create 22 timeless wraps to keep the chill off—and look great in the process. All the...
Consumptive Chic
A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing out in the clothing fashions of the day. With the ravages of the illness widely regarded as conferring...
by Thomas von Nordheim
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Traditional tailoring is a fascinating craft, which has not changed for many centuries, however, the techniques are now known only by a few practising in the best couture ateliers and bespoke tailor's workrooms. Nothing feels quite so luxurious or sophisticated as bespoke clothes, but the tailoring...
Stylish Skirts
23 Easy-to-Sew Designs to Flatter Every Figure
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Sew chic and original skirts with this stylish DIY sewing book.
Stylish Skirts allows you to create simple yet stylish skirts that look and feel great—at a fraction of the cost of store-bought fashion. With this sewing book, there's no end to the kinds of skirts you can create to match your...
by Richard Conner
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
From The Author. To discover more about unlocking your time and creativity in life, work and business, along with other practical insights get the first AND second books in the Work Life Wide Open Series, 'Break Your Busy - Set Your Creativity Free' and 'The Seven Works - Reconfigure The Facets...
Art & Sole
A Spectacular Selection of More Than 150 Fantasy Art Shoes from the Stuart Weitzman Collection
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
A Spectacular Selection of More Than 150 Fantasy Art Shoes from the Stuart Weitzman Collection
When Stuart Weitzman opened its first boutique on Madison Avenue, its displays of specially commissioned fantasy shoes quickly became a destination, drawing crowds form all over the world to its magical...