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HarperCollins Publishers Inc For the Love of White
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Oxford University Press Glamour
Book SynopsisGlamour is one of the most tantalizing and bewitching aspects of contemporary culture - but also one of the most elusive. The aura of celebrity, the style of the fashion world, the vanity of the rich and beautiful, and the publicity-driven rites of café society are all imbued with its irresistible magnetism. But what exactly is glamour? Where does it come from? How old is it? And can anyone quite capture its magic? Stephen Gundle answers all these questions and more in this first ever history of the phenomenon, from Paris in the tumultuous final decades of the eighteenth century through to Hollywood, New York, and Monte Carlo in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from Napoleon to Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe, from Beau Brummell to Gianni Versace. Throughout, the book captures the excitement and sex appeal of glamour while exposing its mechanisms and exploring its sleazy and sometimes tragic underside. As Gundle shows, while glamour is exciting and magnetic, its promise isTrade ReviewCovering over two centuries in an inevitably fast paced 400 pages, Stephen Gundle is persuasive. * Hannah Greig, BBC History Magazine *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Walter Scott and the origins of glamour ; 2. 1. Building the shopping city in London and Paris ; 3. The birth of sex appeal ; 4. Wealth and style in the gilded age ; 5. Cafe society and the publicity phenomenon ; 6. The Hollywood star system ; 7. The Riviera touch ; 8. Glamour for the masses ; 9. Photography and the public image ; 10. Style, pastiche, and excess ; 11. Harlots and heiresses ; Conclusion
£21.37
Random House USA Inc Sleeping with the Enemy
Book SynopsisThis explosive narrative reveals for the first time the shocking hidden years of Coco Chanel’s life: her collaboration with the Nazis in Paris, her affair with a master spy, and her work for the German military intelligence service and Himmler’s SS.Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was the high priestess of couture who created the look of the modern woman. By the 1920s she had amassed a fortune and went on to create an empire. But her life from 1941 to 1954 has long been shrouded in rumor and mystery, never clarified by Chanel or her many biographers. Hal Vaughan exposes the truth of her wartime collaboration and her long affair with the playboy Baron Hans Günther von Dincklage—who ran a spy ring and reported directly to Goebbels. Vaughan pieces together how Chanel became a Nazi agent, how she escaped arrest after the war and joined her lover in exile in Switzerland, and how—despite suspicions about her past—she was able to return to Paris a
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Not Stated The Beautiful Fall
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Little, Brown & Company Dress Your Best Life
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£25.20
Taylor & Francis Ltd British Fashion Design
Book SynopsisBritish Fashion Design explores the tensions between fashion as art form, and the demands of a ruthlessly commercial industry. Based on interviews and research conducted over a number of years, Angela McRobbie charts the flow of art school fashion graduates into the industry; their attempts to reconcile training with practice, and their precarious position between the twin supports of the education system and the commercial sector. Stressing the social context of cultural production, McRobbie focuses on British fashion and its graduate designers as products of youth street culture, and analyses how designers from diverse backgrounds have created a labour market for themselves, remodelling `enterprise culture` to suit their own careers.Trade ReviewBritish Fashion Design is a diligent and illumination sociological study of the careers of fashion designers. McRobbie has made out a strong case for attending more closely to cultural production - Jim McGuigan, New Times'McRobbie is to be congratulated on providing business historians with a perspective on the fashion industry her book is well written and the organisation of the material is faultless.' - Katrina Honeyman, Business History, 41(3)'A fascinating and skillfully narrated story of a creative workforce and its relation to contemporary British capitalism ... a wonderfully readable addition to any undergraduate course on contemporary industries, or on gender and employment.' - Nina Wakeford, Work, Employment and Society, June 2000Table of ContentsAcknowledgements, 1 Fashion design and cultural production, 2 Great debates in art and design education, 3 The fashion girls and the painting boys, 4 Fashion education, trade and industry, 5 What kind of industry? From getting started to going bust, 6 A mixed economy of fashion design, 7 The art and craft of fashion design, 8 Manufacture, money and markets in fashion design, 9 A new kind of rag trade?, 10 Fashion and the image industries, 11 Livelihoods in fashion, Notes, References, Index
£176.17
Thames & Hudson Indigo The Colour that Changed the World
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Penguin Putnam Inc Almost Reckless
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ABC Seams Pty. Ltd. Costuras para Fichas Tcnicas Gua Visual para Produccin de Indumentaria 2 ABC Seams
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Pleating
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£28.79
Henry Holt & Company Inc Chanel A Woman of her Own
£20.64
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Wartime Fashion From Haute Couture to Homemade 19391945
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Swimsuit Fashion from Poolside to Catwalk
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Poiret Dior and Schiaparelli Fashion Femininity And Modernity
Book SynopsisIlya Parkins is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada.Trade ReviewAlthough this slim but thickly-argued book provides basic information about three important French designers, their fashion houses and signature styles and is informed by the existing scholarship on the history of haute couture, Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli: Fashion, Femininity and Modernity is not so much a work of fashion history as it is a new and promising combination of autobiographical analyses, feminist theory and philosophy. -- Mary Lynn Stewart, Simon Fraser University * H-France Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Fashion, Femininity and Modernity in Designer Self-Fashioning Fashion and the Time of Modern Femininity Paul Poiret: Classic and New in the Struggle for Designer Mastery Elsa Schiaparelli: Glamour, Privacy and Timelessness Christian Dior: Nostalgia and the Economy of Feminine Beauty Conclusion: Fashioning Self, Reflecting Ambivalence Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Cool Shades The History and Meaning of Sunglasses
Book SynopsisVanessa Brown is a Senior Lecturer responsible for Design Culture and Context in the School of Art and Design (Department of Fashion, Knit and Textiles) at Nottingham Trent University, UK.Trade ReviewBrown delivers a fascinating explication of an iconic fashion accoutrement: sunglasses. She discusses how they have served as a popular cultural signifier, particularly since the 1920s, and explains their purportedly ‘cool’ quality … This short but insightful volume explores the influence of urban developments, the early turn to goggles and then eventually to Ray-Ban aviators, and the ultimate evolution of ‘modern cool.’ … According to Brown, sunglasses also were linked with African Americans, the femme fatale, white hipsters, the Beats, and late modernity … Likening shades to Breton’s top hat and Robinson’s bowler, Brown offers that they stand as ‘the ultimate symbol of the age.’ A thoroughly intriguing account. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. -- R. C. Cottrell, California State University, Chico * CHOICE *An original contribution to the field ... The book gives an effective discussion of the various meanings of sunglasses as signifiers and draws some interesting examples from film and photography. * Journal of Design History *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Sunglasses and Modernity: Why do Modern Eyes Need Shading? 3. Sunglasses and Speed 4. Sunglasses and the Hi-tech Body 5. From Sunlight to Fashbulbs: Sunglasses, Success, Celebrity and Glamour 6. Sunglasses and the Other – Race, Gender, the Blind and the Outlaw 7. The Spread of Outsider Cool: 1950s – Present 8. Sunglasses and the Absence of Meaning 9. Conclusion 10. Timeline (1750 to 1960s) Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Dress History New Directions in Theory and Practice
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Classic Tailoring Techniques A Construction Guide for Womens Wear FIT Collection
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) How to Draft Basic Patterns
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£69.99
Ross Books Shoebox Holography
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London Record Society The Great Wardrobe Accounts of Henry VII and
Book SynopsisAccounts providing details of the quantities and cost of clothing and other items manufactured for the first Tudor kings.By the late fifteenth century the Great Wardrobe, the section of the royal household that supplied the king and his household with clothing and furnishings, was well established in the London parish of St Andrew by the Wardrobe (many of the suppliers of fabric to the Great Wardrobe and many of the individuals who worked for it lived and worked in the city). This volume provides an edition and calendar of the accounts for 1498-99 and 1510-11, as wellas the section of the 1544 account relating to Henry VIII's campaign in France. In addition there are two appendices listing the recipients of livery in the extant Great Wardrobe accounts and warrants and an extensive glossary. The Introduction to the edited texts discusses the patterns of supply to the Great Wardrobe and assesses the significance of a small but influential group of Italian merchants who traded alongside the Londoners. Professor Maria Hayward teaches in the Department of History, University of Southampton.Trade ReviewAn example of good, selfless scholarship and the warrants offer such a wealth of information that they will surely inspire further research. * COSTUME *Offers the reader an invaluable source of reference for many years to come by providing a valuable insight into the purchase, supply and costs of materials for a section of the royal household. * THE RICARDIAN *Table of ContentsIntroduction Particulars of the account of Robert Lytton, knight, keeper of the Great Wardrobe of King Henry VII, from the feast of St Michael 14 Hen. VII [1498] to the same feast 15 Hen. VII [1499] Particulars of the account of Sir Andrew Windsor, knight, keeper of the Great Wardrobe of King Henry VIII, from the feast of St Michael 2 Hen. VIII [1510] to the same feast 3 Hen. VIII [1511] Particulars of the account of Sir Ralph Sadler, knight, keeper of the Great Wardrobe of King Henry VIII, from the feast of St Michael 35 Hen. VIII [1543] to the same feast 36 Hen. VIII [1544]. Appendix 1: Documents relating to the Great Wardrobe from the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII Appendix 2: The recipients named in the particular accounts of the Great Wardrobe from the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII Appendix 3: The recipients named in the warrants subsidiary to the particular accounts of the Great Wardrobe from the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII Glossary Bibliography
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Thorn Press Knitted Shawls Wraps Volume 3 Heritage of Knitting
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Design Enterprises of San Francisco How to Make Sewing Patterns second edition
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Celebration Generation Spandex Simplified Sewing for Superheroes
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Not Avail Ackermanns Costumes of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge 1 Burgon Society Historical Reprints
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Lamorna Publications Gypsy Guise Disguise
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Ipbooks Psychoanalysis in Fashion
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Nadel Und Faden Press LLC Corset Cutting and Making RevisedEdition
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Lulu.com Bnes and Ballns Design Showcase Book
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LEGARE STREET PR The Secrets of Distinctive Dress
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LEGARE STREET PR Dressmaking and Millinery
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LEGARE STREET PR The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley
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Legare Street Press The Corset and the Crinoline
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LEGARE STREET PR Two Tudor Books of Arms Harleian Mss. nos. 2169 6163
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LEGARE STREET PR Fashion in Paris
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LEGARE STREET PR The Frenchwoman of the Century
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LEGARE STREET PR The Frenchwoman of the Century
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Legare Street Press Handbuch Der Waffenkunde
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LEGARE STREET PR A History of Costuming on the English Stage Between 1660 and 1823
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LEGARE STREET PR A History of Costuming on the English Stage Between 1660 and 1823
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