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Little Black Dress From Mourning to Night
ISBN: PB: 9781883982843, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, April 2016
160 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 75 colour plates
What's the most important garment in a woman's closet? More often than not, the answer is "the little black dress". For decades, fashion magazines have touted the LBD as the perfect solution to almost every fashion crisis. Dressed up or down, with fl...
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£26,50
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Fairy Tale Fashion
ISBN: HB: 9780300218022, Yale University Press, March 2016
264 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 127 colour illus., 35 black&white illus.
Dress plays a crucial role in fairy tales, signaling the status, wealth, or vanity of particular characters, and symbolizing their transformation. Fairy tales often provide little information beyond what is necessary to a plot, but clothing and acces...
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£35,00
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Style of Her Own
ISBN: HB: 9788416248483, Prestel Publishing, La Fabrica, March 2016
256 pp., 28.5x21 cm, illus.
Louise Dahl-Wolfe transformed and modernized the look of fashion magazines in the thirties, forties and fifties, the period during which she was active, and hence played a significant role in providing the world of fashion with a new image. Similarly...
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£43,00
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Isaac Mizrahi
ISBN: HB: 9780300212143, Yale University Press, March 2016
236 pp., 33x25.4 cm, 202 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.
Beginning with Isaac Mizrahi's first fashion collection, which debuted to critical acclaim in 1986, and running though the present day, this stylish, lavishly illustrated book presents his signature couture collections. Mizrahi's exuberant couture st...
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£30,00
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Denim Fashion's Frontier
ISBN: HB: 9780300219142, Yale University Press, March 2016
176 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 100 colour illus.
Denim is one of the world's favorite fabrics, and today it accounts for the largest segment of the clothing industry. The market for jeans alone is worth over 55 billion dollars. Experiments with denim by designers have helped to develop a vast vocab...
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£35,00
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Oscar de la Renta
ISBN: HB: 9783791355238, Prestel Publishing, February 2016
280 pp., 33.2x25.5 cm, 188 colour illus.
A full-scale retrospective of Oscar de la Renta's work, this magnificent volume features the designs that defined the fashion icon's long career. In this fabulous book, readers will be immersed in the designs that made Oscar de la Renta one of fashi...
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£55,00
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Giorgio Armani Radical Gender
ISBN: PB: 9788831720755, DAP, Marsilio Editori, February 2016
176 pp., 11.8x7.8 cm, 130 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Giorgio Armani is an important new monograph on the Italian designer who changed fashion history. The androgynous look that characterizes many of Armani's collections reflects an exchange between different identities and cu...
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£35,00
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Fashion Plates 150 Years of Style
ISBN: HB: 9780300212266, Yale University Press, November 2015
440 pp., 33x28 cm, 225 colour illus.
Prior to the invention of photography, European and American magazines used colorful prints to depict the latest fashion trends. These illustrations, known as "fashion plates", conveyed the cutting-edge styles embraced by the fashion-conscious elite...
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£80,00
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Fashion Underground The World of Susanne Bartsch
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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£35,00
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Printed Textile Design Profession, Trends and Project Development
ISBN: PB: 9788415967675, Hoaki, October 2015
192 pp., 28x21.5 cm, richly illustrated
This book walks us through the different aspects of textile design as a process and a profession. The authors describe the steps involved in projects within the fashion, home and garden sectors of textile design, and also examine the specific charact...
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£22,50
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