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• Fashions of the Roaring ’20s

  

  Product DescriptionClothing of the “Roaring `20s” comes to life in this new book through more than 550 color pictures of distinctive garments, fashion illustrations, and period photographs. The comprehensive text discusses the historical events and renowned designers who influenced the evolution of fashion throughout the decade. Fashions for men, women and children are shown here, from glittering evening gowns and bridal wear to lingerie, sportswear, and domestic uniforms. Hats, handbags,…. Click Here to Read More

• 1960s Fashion Print: A Sourcebook

  

  ISBN13: 9780713490541Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionFashion thrives during periods of cultural foment, and there’s no better example of a time when groundbreaking art prospered than the 1960s. This essential sourcebook for students of contemporary design explores the wealth of fashion print produced during that tumultuous decade, with exclusive illustrations and original artwork by some of the era’s greatest pioneers, including Biba,…. Click Here to Read More

• Essential Fashion Illustration: Poses

  

  Product DescriptionLearn how to draw posed figures for fashion illustrationThis comprehensive reference provides hands-on techniques for created posed figures for fashion illustration. The first section illustrates various examples of nude and semi-nude poses (male and female). Later chapters illustrate the same poses wearing sportswear, sleepwear, dresses, suits, trousers, and casual and evening wear. The poses in each chapter are organized to show a progression including seated model…. Click Here to Read More

• Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys

  

  ISBN13: 9781844074815Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionThis inspirational design handbook presents a new vision of sustainability in the fashion and textile sector based on design thinking and practice. It brings together for the first time information about lifecycle environmental impacts, practical alternatives, design concepts and social innovation, and frames them in a sustainability context. It challenges existing ideas about the scope…. Click Here to Read More

• Fashion Illustrator

  

  ISBN13: 9781856696548Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionA comprehensive, visually-led overview that covers all areas of fashion drawing, presentation, and illustration, Fashion Illustrator both teaches students how to draw the fashion figure and provides an extended showcase of established and emerging illustrators. From initial inspiration through to finished illustration, the book teaches the student how to draw from life and accurately…. Click Here to Read More

• Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity

  

  ISBN13: 9780822346036Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionThe first book on the history of black dandyism, Slaves to Fashion examines the pivotal role that style has played in the politics and aesthetics of African diasporic identity formation. The figure of the black dandy first emerged in eighteenth-century England as an attempt to control the representation of Africans by imposing upon domestic slaves luxurious uniforms intended to flaunt…. Click Here to Read More

• British Fashion Designers

  

  ISBN13: 9781856696333Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionThis is the first book to embrace the whole of the UK and its creative influence on international fashion. It is aimed at industry professionals, students, and anyone with an interest in fashion. Both inspirational and informative, it will also appeal as a coffee-table book, being visually inspiring and modern. The UK is a creative and cultural melting pot for international designers to…. Click Here to Read More

• Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Fashion in Detail

  

  ISBN13: 9781851775675Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionNow available from Abrams, this popular book offers a rare, close-up look at the exquisite, labor-intensive details seen in fine historical clothing. Perfect decorative seams, minute stitching, knife-sharp pleats, and voluptuous drapery-all are here, alongside more unusual techniques such as stamping, pinking, and slashing. Most of these effects cannot be replicated by machine, yet many…. Click Here to Read More

• A Year in Fashion

  

  Product DescriptionFrom turn-of-the-century corsets to the most recent fashionforwardtrends, this treasury of photos culled from the GettyArchives encompasses every aspect of the history of fashion.A beautiful gift book formatted as a year s worth of two-pagespreads, each day features a stunning photograph facing adetailed caption, a short text, and a memorable quotation, aswell as room to note birthdays, anniversaries, and otherimportant dates. Immortal designers, their…. Click Here to Read More