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Manus x Machina Fashion in an Age of Technology
ISBN: PB: 9781588395924, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2016
256 pp., 31.8x23.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
The complex and often ambiguous relationship between the hand crafted and the machine made is examined in this intriguing look at the ever-changing world of fashion and taste. "Manus Machina" traces styles of dress from one-of-a-kind works and haute...
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£38,00
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Memory of My Wardrobe
ISBN: HB: 9781861543462, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, January 2014
112 pp., 21x15 cm, full-colour illus.
"The Memory of My Wardrobe", a project by Finnish photographer Ida Taavitsainen, explores the personal narratives given to clothing inherited or simply handed down to her by her family. Over the years, she acquired a lot of clothes, many once belongi...
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£28,00
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Mechanical Smile Modernism and the First Fashion Shows in France and America, 1900-1929
ISBN: HB: 9780300189537, Yale University Press, May 2013
400 pp., 28x23 cm, 80 colour images, 170 black&white illus.
In the early 20th century, the desire to see clothing in motion flourished on both sides of the Atlantic: models tangoed, slithered, swaggered, and undulated before customers in couture houses and department stores. "The Mechanical Smile" traces the...
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£40,00
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