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• Fashion Doll Makeovers Learn from 35 Artists Step-by-Step Guide by Jim Faraone

  

  Product DescriptionOne of the hottest trends in the doll world today is the making over of popular dolls. This volume demonstrates how a creative touch can transform an average-looking doll into a glamorous showgirl, a fashion statement, or even a whimsical creature of fantasy. 50 artists from all over the world have sent examples of their latest work. A chapter “How to Create Your Own Fashion Wonder” explains how to make recreations. 200 + color photos. Fashion Doll Makeovers Learn…. Click Here to Read More

• British Fashion Design: Rag Trade or Image Industry?

  

  Product DescriptionBritish 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…. Click Here to Read More

• Stylist: The Interpreters of Fashion

  

  Product DescriptionFrom the editors of Style.com, the hub of runway buzz, comes this savvy look at the individuals who propel the fashion world forward and declare what’s hot and what’s not. Called upon by designers, editors, photographers, and celebrities, stylists have a sixth sense for what is now and next in the fashion ether. Featuring sixteen of today’s top tastemakers, Stylist focuses on these fashion insiders whose precocious sense for the next big thing often results in…. Click Here to Read More

• Changing Fashion: A Critical Introduction to Trend Analysis and Cultural Meaning

  

  Product DescriptionChanging trends in fashion have always reflected large-scale social and cultural changes. Changing Fashion presents a multi-disciplinary approach to examining fashion change, bringing together theory from fashion studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and art history, and more. Ideal for the undergraduate student of fashion and cultural studies, the book has a wide range of contemporary and historical case material which provides practical examples of trend…. Click Here to Read More

• Passion Is A Fashion: The Real Story of The Clash

  

  Product DescriptionThe only internationally successful, million-selling group to emerge from the late seventies London punk scene, the Clash set out to change the world with a potent mix of politics, iconic imagery, and blazing rock ‘n’ roll. It was an agenda mirrored in the Clash’s music, which swiftly evolved from ferocious punk rock to incorporate reggae, ska, funk, jazz, soul, and hip-hop. Passion Is a Fashion draws on over 70 interviews with the key participants in the…. Click Here to Read More

• Fashion Jewelry to Make Yourself: Imaginative, Refined, Elegant With Instructions

  

  Product DescriptionIndividualistic and unusual jewelry designs do not need to be expensive. Renate Bosshart demonstrates over 100 designs, made with simple techniques. The results are amazing, unique pieces that will complete any womans wardrobe with startling effects. The design palette ranges from simple to extravagant, from carefree to richly precious. The book is illustrated with elegant photographs in twelve chapters. Easy to follow, step by step instructions are included, which,…. Click Here to Read More

• Fashion as Communication

  

  Product DescriptionWhat kinds of things do fashion and clothing say about us? What does it mean to wear Gap or Gaultier, Milletts or Moschino? Are there any real differences between Hip-Hop style and Punk anti-styles? In this fully revised and updated edition, Malcolm Barnard introduces fashion and clothing as ways of communicating and challenging class, gender, sexual and social identities.Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches from Barthes and Baudrillard to Marxist, psychoanalytic…. Click Here to Read More

• Techno Textiles: Revolutionary Fabrics for Fashion and Design

  

  Product DescriptionThe predictions of style gurus and top international designers are given form in this study of the way new technology in fabrics and fashion is bringing together art, design, engineering and science. This book is a source for those professionals in design, fashion, art and architecture, but its results on the effects textiles are having on our lifestyles will also appeal to a much wider audience. Techno Textiles: Revolutionary Fabrics for Fashion and…. Click Here to Read More

• Techno Textiles: Revolutionary Fabrics for Fashion and Design

  

  Product DescriptionThe predictions of style gurus and top international designers are given form in this study of the way new technology in fabrics and fashion is bringing together art, design, engineering and science. This book is a source for those professionals in design, fashion, art and architecture, but its results on the effects textiles are having on our lifestyles will also appeal to a much wider audience. Techno Textiles: Revolutionary Fabrics for Fashion and…. Click Here to Read More