Fashion Books
Style Book
With her sharp eye and clever pen, long time fashion editor and style maven Elizabeth Walker navigates fashion devotees through the recurring themes that define the essence of style. She juxtaposes more than 450 exhilarating images, from 1865 to the present and from street fashion to haute couture. Divided into thirteen categories ranging from accessories to menswear, prints to denim, and exotic influences to animal motifs-these photographs will guide readers to create their own unique look.
New on the Catwalk
New on the Catwalk presents an exquisite selection of graduates fresh out of the international fashion schools - from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp to the Vantan Design Institute, Tokyo. The fashion newcomers are introduced with an informative portrait and a selection of images that feature the hallmarks of their creations, bringing out the stars of tomorrow and their collections onto the open runway of fame now.
Not A Toy
Not A Toy is the world s first comprehensive investigation into the growing influence of today s character culture on contemporary fashion and costume design.
The Fashion Reader: Second Edition
The Fashion Reader brings together the key writings on the subject, covering the history, culture, and business of fashion. The essays are drawn from a wide range of sources - books, professional and academic journals, magazines, interviews, and exhibition catalogues.
Doing Research in Fashion and Dress
This book is specifically devoted to qualitative research methods in fashion studies. It traces the history of fashion studies and provides readers with a guided introduction to the entire research process.
Napoleon and the Empire of Fashion
A sumptuously illustrated and richly detailed catalog of enormous appeal to anyone interested in fashion, lifestyle, the history of costume and applied arts. Thanks to a prestigious private collection, this book explains how from the Napoleonic era onwards, the clothing of men, women and children acquired a social, cultural, and economic importance it had never had before in the history of the Western world.
Talk About Fashion
Fashion guru Catherine Schwaab packs the history of style, fashion, and its key designers into a practical and engaging guide. The book offers a chronology to the major trends of the twentieth century, introduces thirty designers and their signature pieces that define fashion today.
Fashion Drawing
This book is a comprehensive, practical guide to fashion drawing for students and designers looking to improve their skills. With a contemporary and comprehensive approach, the book offers step-by-step guidance and shows how drawing is an integral function of the garment design process.
Vintage Shoes
Decade by decade, Vintage Shoes recounts more than one hundred years of the history of shoe design, highlighting the key designers and cultural influences that have shaped shoe fashions throughout the century. Vintage Shoes includes stunning fashion photography, specially commissioned photographs of period footwear, and the most collectible, exquisite, and fabulous shoe designs.
How to Draw Poses in Fashion
A good study of poses helps to interpret fashion illustrations, explaining above all how an item of clothing will react to any movement. This book, ideal for designers and illustrators, includes 1,000 practical resources to perfect your technique.
Sonia Delaunay
Color Moves: Art & Fashion by Sonia Delaunay focuses not only on her art but also her avant-garde fashion designs for her Atelier Simultane in Paris during the 1920s, as well as textiles she designed for the Metz & Co department store in Amsterdam in the 1930s. The book features essays by Delaunay experts Matteo de Leeuw-de Monti, Matilda McQuaid and Petra Timmer, accompanied by more than 300 paintings, drawings, designs, textiles, garments and photographs.
The Victorian Tailor
This unique book is a wide-ranging introduction to the world of Victorian tailoring, including techniques, materials, and patterns. The author, an expert in the field, has dipped into rare 19th-century tailoring sourcebooks and re-created the authentic techniques for today's budding tailor.
Couture in the 21st Century
Couture in the 21st Century is the first of its kind: a rare look inside the world of couture, an elite class of the world's greatest designers who have achieved a level of perfection in their craftsmanship and vision in fashion.
Gianfranco Ferre Drawings
An extensive monograph surveying the career of the Italian designer known as "the architect of fashion."
Future Fashion
Featuring the work of fashion-forward designers such as Martin Margiela, Future Fashion: Innovative Materials explores in depth the radical new innovations in fashion technology and exciting trends in materials set to change the face of fashion.
Emilio Cavallini
This whimsical art book cut jacket-is dedicated to Emilio Cavallini's passion for art and his creativity as a fashion designer. Emilio Cavallini is a high quality italian brand, offering a touch of class to the hosiery industry.
Shaping Sustainable Fashion
The production, use and eventual disposal of most clothing is environmentally damaging, and many fashion and textile designers are becoming keen to employ more sustainable strategies in their work. This book provides a practical guide to the ways in which designers are creating fashion with less waste and greater durability.
Fashion Independent
Original, bold, athletic, and gracious, Ann Bonfoey Taylor created a life that personifies a dream of what an American woman can be. Fashion Independent: The Original Style of Ann Bonfoey Taylor features more than 60 full ensembles and accessories that provide a comprehensive look at the wardrobe of a dynamic and sophisticated woman.
Fashion Illustration for Designers
Fashion Illustration for Designers is focused on teaching students how to develop contemporary drawing skills that will allow them to communicate their fashion vision. The book teaches students how to draw all the various fashion figures for men, women and children and features the latest in today's fashion trends.
Roberto Cavalli
In celebration of the fortieth anniversary of its founding in Florence-a retrospective of classic, rich looks that created a fashion empire. The Cavalli lexicon includes stunning images styled by premier fashion authority Marie-Amelie Sauve for supermodels of today and from fashion eras past.
100 Years of Fashion Illustration
A visual feast of 400 dazzling images, 100 Years of Fashion Illustration is a comprehensive survey of the genre over the last century.
My Wonderful World of Fashion
An interactive coloring book for fashionistas of all ages, My Wonderful World of Fashion is packed with beautiful and sophisticated illustrations specially created by the leading fashion-illustrator Nina Chakrabarti.
Fashion Statements
Fashion Statements presents an eclectic array of essays regarding the meanings of fashion to articulate the new directions of an everyday cultural phenomenon.
Fashion Designers' Sketchbooks
Fashion Designers' Sketchbooks provides a revealing insight into the design process of some of the major names in the fashion industry. Garments on the catwalk are juxtaposed with lookbooks, original research material, and finished illustrations, giving a new perspective on the working methods of leading international designers.
Fashion and the Consumer
This text is designed to introduce important concepts related to the consumption of fashion and clothing to beginning students. Designed to support teaching and learning, this book looks at the cultural and economic significance of the global fashion industry. Beginning with an historical overview of fashion consumption, the book then provides an analysis of both rational normative consumer decision-making as well as hedonic and alternative consumption patterns.
Fashion Design: Understanding Fashion
This text is designed to introduce undergraduate students to the central concepts of fashion design. Whereas fashion design is often considered entirely frivolous, this book considers the significant cultural, economic, and ethical issues that designers must balance to be effective in the global fashion industry.
The Dictionary of Fashion History
The Dictionary of Fashion History completely updates and supplements the Cunningtons' landmark work to bring it up to the present day. Featuring additional terms and revised definitions, this new edition represents an essential reference for costume historians, students of fashion history, or anyone involved in creating period costume for the theatre, film or television.
Functional Aesthetics
Functional Aesthetics is a sequel to Seymour s highly acclaimed book Fashionable Technology and contains new state-of-the-art and revealing artistic and design examples focusing on the aesthetic and functional aspects.
Minimalism and Fashion
Minimalism and Fashion is the first book to examine the minimalist movement in fashion while addressing its confluence with and divergence from similar currents in art, architecture, and design. Organized by decade, the text explores the evolving relationships and influences between fine art and the art of sartorial minimalism, and is accompanied by more than 150 breathtaking images.
Kenzo
An extraordinary collectible, Kenzo creatively presents forty years of the Paris-based fashion house, founded by Japanese designer Kenzo Takada and now in a resurgence under artistic director Antonio Marras.