Fashion category: 1172 books
Fashion Geek
Clothes Accessories Tech
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Fashion + Technology
You've seen it on the runway and the red carpet - clothing and accessories that combine the world of fashion with the modern sleekness of tech. And now, the know-how to create these fashions for your own wardrobe is at your fingertips with Fashion Geek.
Project Runway...
Fashion Theory
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
From its beginnings in the fifteenth century, intensified interest in fashion and the study of fashion over the last thirty years has led to a vast and varied literature on the subject.
This collection of essays surveys and contextualizes the ways in which a wide range of disciplines have used a...
Spacewear
Weightlessness and the Final Frontier of Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Today, we are living in the New Space Age, where mass commercial space travel is almost within our grasp. This otherworldly possibility has opened up new cultural images of space, both real and fictional, and has caused fashion design and spacesuit engineering to intersect in new, exciting ways. Spacewear...
Moroccan Fashion
Design, Culture and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Moroccan garment design and consumption have experienced major shifts in recent history, transforming from a traditional craft-based enterprise to a thriving fashion industry. Influenced by western fashion, dress has become commoditized and has expanded from tailoring to designer labels. This book...
Muslim Fashion
Contemporary Style Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
In the shops of London's Oxford Street, girls wear patterned scarves over their hair as they cluster around makeup counters. Alongside them, hip twenty-somethings style their head-wraps in high black topknots to match their black boot-cut trousers. Participating in the world of popular mainstream...
by Chris Dicker
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
There's hardly a woman in the modern world today who hasn't heard of the Chanel brand. Yet, somewhat 50 years after Coco Chanel's death, her products and brand become more luxurious and expensive for those who can actually afford them. Coco Chanel's "simple, but sophisticated" fashion approach...
Always Pack a Party Dress
And Other Lessons Learned From a (Half) Life in Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Author of the bestselling I Love Your Style Amanda Brooks shares her personal stories, and sartorial highs and lows, from a life in fashion, with beautiful, eclectic, and inspired photographs throughout.
An authentic voice in the world of style and how-to books, Amanda Brooks, with her unique...
Focus
The Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
“This thoroughly absorbing narrative dazzles with the most profound investigation and research. Focus is an enthralling and riveting read.” —Tim Gunn
“Smart, well-researched…engaging…canny” (New York Times Book Review), Focus is a “fast-paced—and clearly insider—look at...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Why do you want your child to learn about fashion? It’s not because you want your child to fit in but more because fashion represents culture, arts and the collective dreams of the people. With the help of this educational resource, your child will begin to understand how colors and patterns interact...
My Paris Dream
An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
A charming and insightful memoir about coming of age as a fashion journalist in 1980s Paris, by former Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar editor Kate Betts, the author of Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style
“You can always come back,” my mother said. “Just go.”
As a...
The Wow Factor
Insider Style Secrets for Every Body and Every Budget
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Fashion editor and style expert Jacqui Stafford’s new fashion bible proves that you don’t have to be skinny or rich to look and feel fabulous.
Some women just have "it". That indefinable something that makes them look effortlessly stylish, pulled together, and WOW! But if you...
Knitting Classic Style: 35 Modern Designs Inspired by Fashion's Archives
35 Modern Designs Inspired by Fashion's Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
In fashion, one day you’re in, the next day you’re out . . . and the day after that, you’re back in again. Designers are always referring to fashion’s rich history as they imagine its present and future, and retro looks remain ever-fresh as they are renewed—and restyled—for the next generation...
by Jonathan Walford
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
The 1950s was the first decade when American fashion became truly American. The United States had always relied on Europe for its style leads, but during World War II, when necessity became the mother of invention, the country had to find its own way. American designers looked to what American women...
by Terry Newman
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Discover the signature sartorial and literary style of fifty men and women of letters, including Maya Angelou; Truman Capote; Colette; Bret Easton Ellis; Allen Ginsberg; Patti Smith; Karl Ove Knausgaard; and David Foster Wallace; in this unique compendium of profiles—packed with eighty black-and-white...