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Shoddy From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags

Shell Hanna Rose

ISBN: HB: 9780226377759, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
272 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 65 halftones

You know shoddy: an adjective meaning cheap and likely poorly made. But did you know that before it became a popular descriptor, shoddy was first coined as a noun? In the early nineteenth century, shoddy was the name given to a new textile material m...

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Fashion in the Middle Ages

Scott Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9781606065853, Getty Publications, September 2018
112 pp., 22.9x12.7 cm, 88 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

From the costly velvets and furs worn by kings to the undyed wools and rough linens of the peasantry, the clothing worn by the various classes in the Middle Ages played an integral role in medieval society. In addition to providing clues to status, p...

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Fabrics in Fashion Design The Way Successful Fashion Designers Use Fabrics (New Edition)

Sposito Stefania

ISBN: PB: 9788416851287, Hoaki, October 2017
336 pp., 24.5x23.8 cm, richly illustrated

Fabrics are the base for the world of fashion: they determine the way designers conceive their pieces and their creativity. This book is a bridge uniting materials and their creators by visually showing the profound relationship between fabrics and f...

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Fashion Underground The World of Susanne Bartsch

Steele Valerie, Marra Melissa, Bartsch Susanne, Khairzada Waleed

ISBN: HB: 9780300214628, Yale University Press, October 2015
168 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 250 colour illus.

Susanne Bartsch has been the queen of New York City nightlife since the 1980s when she first became famous for spectacular parties, where a diverse crowd brought fashion to the level of performance art. Her most important party was undoubtedly the 19...

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Dance and Fashion

Steele Valerie, Davis Mary, Hill Colleen, Marra Melissa, McClendon Emma, Mears Patricia, Monden Masafumi, Rasche Adelaide, Way Elizabeth, Winestein Anna

ISBN: HB: 9780300208856, Yale University Press, October 2014
224 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 150 colour illus.

Dress and adornment have long played an important role in the visual allure of dance, and fashion designers have often been inspired by the way dancers look. The tutus and pointe shoes of the Romantic ballerina, for example, have influenced designers...

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Killer Heels The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe

Small Lisa

ISBN: HB: 9783791353807, Prestel Publishing, September 2014
224 pp., 30.5x24 cm, 223 colour illus.

This gorgeous book explores the fashion world's most coveted and iconic object – the high-heeled shoe. "Killer Heels" explores the rich cultural history of the high heel and its relation to power, fantasy, sexuality, and identity. More than 160 spec...

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Fabrics in Fashion Design The Way Successful Fashion Designers Use Fabrics

Sposito Stefania

ISBN: PB: 9788415967057, Hoaki, September 2014
336 pp., 22.8x22.8 cm, richly illustrated

Fabrics are the base for the world of fashion: they determine the way designers conceive their pieces and their creativity. This title is the ultimate reference guide to all the major types of fabric in use today. This book is a bridge uniting materi...

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Shoe Obsession

Steele Valerie, Hill Colleen

ISBN: HB: 9780300190793, Yale University Press, February 2013
192 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 200 colour illus.

This fabulously illustrated book explores western culture's fascination with extravagant and fashionable shoes. Over the past decade, shoe design has become increasingly central to fashion, with fashion companies paying ever more attention to shoes a...

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50 Series

50 Contemporary Fashion Designers You Should Know

Santlofer Doria

ISBN: PB: 9783791347134, Prestel Publishing, September 2012
160 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 150 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

This book of stunning images is an accessible overview of the most important contemporary fashion designers working now. Today's designers are savvier and more daring than ever before. Happy to exist within or outside the established houses of haute...

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Daphne Guinness

Steele Valerie, Guinness Daphne

ISBN: HB: 9780300176636, Yale University Press, September 2011
192 pp., 28x23 cm, 100 colour illus.

"She is one of the – if not the – most stylish women living", says designer and film director Tom Ford, speaking of Daphne Guinness, the subject and co-author of this extraordinary book. From her platinum-and-black striped hair to her towering 10-inc...

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