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Legare Street Press Mesdames nos aieules
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Legare Street Press Hints On Dress
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Legare Street Press A A History of English Dress From the Saxon Period to the Present Day
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Legare Street Press A Cyclopedia of Costume or Dictionary of Dress Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent a General Chronological History of the Costumes of the Principal Countries of Europe From the Commencement of the Christian Era to
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Legare Street Press The The Tailors Masterpiece
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Legare Street Press Intelligent Dressing
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Legare Street Press Illustrated Catalogue 1894
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Legare Street Press What to Wear
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Legare Street Press The WestEnd Gazette of Gentlemens Fashions. Volume Xi. January 1873
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Legare Street Press History of British Costume
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Legare Street Press Die Die Volkstrachten der Innerschweiz.
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Legare Street Press L Encyclopedie Perruquière...
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Legare Street Press Deutsche Volkstrachten
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Legare Street Press La La Mode Pendant Quarante Ans De 1830 À 1870
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Legare Street Press A A Cyclopedia of Costume Or Dictionary of Dress
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Legare Street Press Die Frauenkleidung
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LEGARE STREET PR The Gentlemans Art Of Dressing With Economy By A Lounger At The Clubs
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LEGARE STREET PR The American Hatter Volume 37
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Read Books Gentlemen's Garment Cutting: Trousers, Vests, Coats, Overgarments, Corpulent Figures, and Variations
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Echo Point Books & Media, LLC Historic Costumes and How to Make Them (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
£23.47
Independently Published Fashion Sketchbook Figure Template: 430 Large Female Figure Template for Easily Sketching Your Fashion Design Styles and Building Your Portfolio
£12.39
Echo Books The Confident Stylist
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Bye Bye Studio Fashion Sketchbook Female Figure Template: Over 200 female fashion figure templates in 10 different poses
£14.11
Bye Bye Studio Fashion Sketchbook Male Figure Template: Over 200 male fashion figure templates in 10 different poses
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Independently Published Fashion Sketchbook: 250+ Large Female and Male Figure Template For Sketching your Couple Fashion Design Styles and Building Your Portfolio
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Independently Published 50 Gowns to Style: Design Your Style Workbook: Wonderful Dresses, Drawing Workbook for Teens and Adults.
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Independently Published The Ghost Perfumer: Creed, Lies, & the Scent of the Century
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Coco Chanel New Edition
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Rizzoli International Publications Martine Sitbon
Book SynopsisInfluenced by her love for Parisian style, romanticism, and rock and roll, Martine Sitbon continues to be a major force in fashion. This is her long-overdue first book. Will appeal to Sitbon's many fans as well as buyers of Chloe (where Sitbon was head designer) and Carine Roitfeld.The definitive book on the career of fashion designer Martine Sitbon.Trade Review"Few designers today can claim the impact of Martine Sitbon. The French creative made history with her appointment as head designer at Chloé in the late ’80s—the first woman to hold the title. Over nine seasons, she forged a refreshing, romantic new identity for the house, crafting flirty bodysuits, dreamy separates, and show-stopping minis—all while running her namesake label. Sitbon also served as an influential mentor for successive talents Phoebe Philo and Isabel Marant. Martine Sitbon: Alternative Vision offers an intimate glimpse into the elusive designer’s world through sketches and photographs of her essential works. Prepare to be enchanted all over again." —V MAGAZINE
£24.08
Rizzoli The International Best Dressed List
Book SynopsisA lavishly illustrated banquet of style, elegance, and taste, this is a who's who of the most glamorous men and women around the world, the ultimate treasury of fashion inspiration.This sumptuous volume--the ultimate sourcebook for fashion mavens, Instagram followers, and celebrity worshippers--presents the complete history of the much-lauded and highly visible International Best-Dressed List (IBDL) launched by Eleanor Lambert, Godmother of Fashion, in 1940. The List has become a barometer of style and the highest honor a sartorial savant can receive, and today it's an ongoing record of the world's most glamorous women and men from society, royalty, Hollywood, celebrity, fashion, art, culture, sports, and media. These gorgeous swans of elegance, influence, and grace are gathered here in the most comprehensive survey ever published.This rich story is told by insider and IBDL Hall-of-Famer Amy Fine Collins through her encyclopedic knowledge, exclusive insights, and
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St Martin's Press A LeftHanded Woman
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAYA collection of essays from Judith Thurman, the National Book Awardwinning biographer and New Yorker staff writer.Judith Thurman, a prolific staff writer at The New Yorker for more than two decades, has gathered a selection of her essays and profiles in A Left-Handed Woman. They consider our culture in all its guises: literature, history, politics, gender, fashion, and art, though their paramount subject is the human condition. Thurman is one of the preeminent essayists of our timea master of vivisection, as Kathryn Harrison wrote in The New York Times. When she's done with a subject, it's still living, mystery intact.
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Trafalgar Square Norwegian Sweaters and Jackets: 37 Stunning
Book SynopsisKari Hestnes has been a knit designer for almost 40 years—and she's a perennial fan favorite for her focus on gorgeous details and stunning embellishment, her flattering garment shaping, and her playful, vivid use of color. Now, she's revisited those four decades of challenging and endlessly rewarding work in order to bring together the best of the best, in one extraordinary collection: classic cabling, dynamic textures, and brilliant multicolor patterns for sweaters, cardigans, and tops, all featuring Hestnes's inimitable style and characteristic aesthetic flourishes. - Patterns using a variety of techniques and design elements, with instructions included for a minimum of five sizes - Full-color photographs of each project—plus additional nature photos were taken by Kari herself - Decades of timeless design inspiration, now available in English for the first time
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Birkhauser Interactive Design: Towards a Responsive
Book SynopsisDesigners and forward thinkers in the field of interactive design share their reflections and show examples of different models of a responsive future environment. Interactive design has exploded in recent years with a number of inspiring projects that have opened up a new field of research and design. This book brings together some of the most prominent actors and thinkers in the field of interactive design, with theoretical articles highlighting different aspects of this work and describing them through current practices and projects. Supplemented with numerous illustrations, this book offers an overview of the emergence of interactive design and architecture based on the theory of cybernetics. At the same time, it introduces models of interactivity ranging from dynamic and shapechanging materials to wearables, architecture, and transdisciplinary and alternative design methods. History of the development of interactive design Overview of the state of the art and its possibilities Models of interactivity in theory and practice
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Birkhauser Tracing Wiener Werkstätte Textiles: Viennese
Book SynopsisWiener Werkstätte: Textiles and their design This book presents new research and archival findings on the textile and fashion designs of the Wiener Werkstätte movement (1903–1932). Textile specialists, art and design historians offer insights into the most important collections and archives in Austria, Switzerland, and the US. The publication explores works by lesser-known female textile artists; the influence of Eastern European folk art, Japanese patterns, and ornamentation textbooks on textile designs; applications in fashion, interior design, film, theater; and marketing strategies used to enter new markets in the US. It includes numerous illustrations of textile samples, many drawn from the Cotsen Textile Traces Study Collection (George Washington University Museum / Textile Museum), one of the largest collections of Wiener Werkstätte fabrics in the US. New research and archival findings on the Wiener Werkstätte textile design International project by the University of Neuchâtel, the George Washington University Museum / Textile Museum (exhibition from July 8 to November 5, 2023), and the University of Applied Arts Vienna Contributions by Susan Brown / Caitlin Condell, Rebecca Houze, Janis Staggs, and others
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Arnoldsche The Glove: More than fashion
Book SynopsisIn the form of The Glove Deutsches Ledermuseum is tracing the varied cultural history of an accessory whose importance is often underestimated. The sheer diversity of this article of clothing is demonstrated by means of selected exhibits, from warming Inuit mittens, boxing gloves, disposable rubber or latex gloves, and Pontifical gloves, to models by renowned designers such as Marc Jacobs and Dries Van Noten. As a love token, a gauntlet in a duel, or as the insignia of royalty, this highly symbolic accessory and firm component of first courtly, then bourgeois etiquette looks back on a longstanding tradition. Gloves, for centuries an indispensable part of any elegant wardrobe, are currently experiencing a comeback. Text in English and German.
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Valiz Radical Fashion Exercises: A Workbook of Modes
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Princeton University Press Orderly Fashion
Book SynopsisFor any market to work properly, certain key elements are necessary: competition, pricing, rules, clearly defined offers, and easy access to information. Without these components, there would be chaos. This book examines how order is maintained in the different interconnected consumer, producer, and credit markets of the global fashion industry.Trade Review"I do hope that economists read this book and realize the potential that such descriptive analysis holds."--Nick Krafft, Open Economics "Aspers enlightens readers about the intricacies of the workings of the global fashion market. He has accomplished what he set out to do, to bring together economic, sociological, and fashion theory."--Wanda K. Cheek, Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences "[T]his is a very stimulating, well researched and well-written book, which deserves to be read by those interested in fashion, economic sociology and/or sociology in general."--David Dequech, European Economic Sociology NewsletterTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction 1 The Aims of the Book 4 Order 5 Outline of the Book 9 Chapter 1: Garment Sellers in Consumer Markets 11 Identity 12 Market Differentiation 13 Types of Sellers 19 Competition and Cooperation 26 Splitting and Fusing Markets 31 Summary 33 Chapter 2: Affordable Fashion 34 Identities of Branded Garment Retailers 35 Retailers' Customers 40 Consumption and Identity 43 Price and Garments 46 Fashion 49 Fashion and Power 54 Identity Management 55 The Culture of the Market 57 Status Order 58 Summary 60 Chapter 3: Entrenching Identities 62 Performance Control 63 Relations of Identities 89 Summary 91 Chapter 4: Branded Garment Retailers in the Production Market 94 Design and Fashion 95 Finding Manufacturers 102 Competition among Retailers 112 The Product 117 Retailers' Identities 123 Summary 123 Chapter 5: Manufacturing Garments in the Global Market 125 The Industry from the Perspective of the Manufacturers 126 The Production Process 131 Identity Differentiation and Strategies 136 Price and Global Competition 138 The Market Culture 142 Order Out of Standard 144 Summary 145 Chapter 6: Branded Garment Retailers in the Investment Market 147 Approaching Financial Markets 148 Retailers' Identities in Investor Markets 149 The Stock Market and Its Value 150 Trading Fashion Stocks 155 Evaluation of Stocks 156 Economic Evaluation 158 Summary 162 Chapter 7: Markets as Partial Orders 165 Discussion of the Study 165 Partial Orders 171 Appendix I: Empirical Material and Methods 175 Appendix II: Garment Trade Statistics 181 Appendix III: The Garment Industry 185 Appendix IV: Economic Sociology 191 Appendix V: Fashion Theory and Research 195 Notes 201 References 213 Index 235
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Editorial Gg Confección de Moda, Vol, 2: Técnicas Avanzadas
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Diane von Furstenberg and the Tale of the
Book SynopsisDiane von Furstenberg's revolutionary wrap dress liberated women to be their most active and natural selves, setting entirely new, realistic, and exciting fashion standards for women everywhere. This title looks for the next generation to serve as a cautionary tale for fashionistas.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore
Book SynopsisTerry Newman combines illuminating anecdotes about authors and their work, archival photography, first-person quotations from each writer and current designers, little-known facts, and clothing-oriented excerpts that exemplify their original writing style.Trade ReviewOne of Spring 2017's Top Ten Art, Architecture & Photography Books -- Publishers Weekly, Dec. 12, 2016 Issue
£20.00
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Way She Wears It
Book SynopsisTHE ULTIMATE insider's guide to revealing your personal style
£16.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Baddiewinkles Guide to Life
Book SynopsisInstagram’s hippest grandma shares her thoughts on living and dressing adventurously in this humorous illustrated guide.Known for her tie-dye tops, shirts with sayings like "Bye Basic," and giant neon drop earrings, eighty-eight-year-old Baddie Winkle is one of the internet’s hottest stars.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Dressing the Part
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Penguin Putnam Inc Eyeliner
Book SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editors'' Choice Pick?Cosmetic, tool of rebellion, status signifier: Eyeliner has been all these and more. Moving through millenniums and across civilizations, Hankir gives the makeup its eye-opening due.??The New York Times Book Review?An impressive, rigorously researched, winding path through centuries and over continents.? ?NPR.org?I loved Eyeliner. Hankir approaches her subject with dedicated curiosity, humility, and humor, blending anthropology, travel writing, memoir and history. A treat.? ?Kassia St. Clair, author of The Secret Lives of ColorFrom the acclaimed editor of Our Women on the Ground comes a dazzling exploration of the intersections of beauty and power around the globe, told through the lens of an iconic cosmeticFrom the distant past to the present, with fingers and felt-tipped pens, metallic powders and gel pots, humans have been drawn to lining their eyes. The aesthetic trademark of figures ranging from Nefertiti to Amy Winehouse, eyeliner is one of our most enduring cosmetic tools; ancient royals and Gen Z beauty influencers alike would attest to its uniquely transformative power. It is undeniably fun?yet it is also far from frivolous.Seen through Zahra Hankir?s (kohl-lined) eyes, this ubiquitous but seldom-examined product becomes a portal to history, proof both of the stunning variety among cultures across time and space and of our shared humanity. Through intimate reporting and conversations?with nomads in Chad, geishas in Japan, dancers in India, drag queens in New York, and more?Eyeliner embraces the rich history and significance of its namesake, especially among communities of color. What emerges is an unexpectedly moving portrait of a tool that, in various corners of the globe, can signal religious devotion, attract potential partners, ward off evil forces, shield eyes from the sun, transform faces into fantasies, and communicate volumes without saying a word.Delightful, surprising, and utterly absorbing, Eyeliner is a fascinating tour through streets, stages, and bedrooms around the world, and a thought-provoking reclamation of a key piece of our collective history.
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Random House USA Inc The Silhouette Solution
Book SynopsisA radically simple and universally flattering system for getting dressed, from the Emmy Award–winning stylist who turned Fran Drescher of The Nanny into a fashion icon“Brenda’s capsule wardrobe system is a lifesaver. I will never look at my clothes the same way again!”—Fran Drescher, star and co-creator of The Nanny Using your existing clothes plus a splash of something new, The Silhouette Solution provides a method that transforms how you’ll view your wardrobe, your style, and ultimately, yourself. With just four tops, four bottoms, and a few pairs of shoes, Brenda Cooper shows you how to create the foundation for a fabulously functional wardrobe. Regardless of your age, size, body type, or budget, you’ll have a set of modern, versatile, mix-and-match pieces that work for every occasion of your life. Learn how to effortlessly: • Coordinate comfortable,
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Fashionable Clothing from the Sears Catalog
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