Fashion Books
For the Love of Shoes
For the Love of Shoes explores the outer realms of avant-garde shoe design. Unfettered by commercialism, these pioneering designers give full rein to their artistic visions. These zany pieces contain an array of extraordinary forms and materials.
Laser Cutting for Fashion and Textiles
Laser cutting is the latest embellishment technique to appear on the runway. In this book, Laura Berens Baker provides 14 inspirational projects that demonstrate how to use laser cutting equipment to produce original designs for garments and accessories. The book explores how to engineer designs and harness laser technology to upcycle fabrics, replicating traditional finishes as well as developing new ones.
The Parisian Gentleman
The Parisian Gentleman is like a dream shopping excursion to the leading men's style-makers, from hidden ateliers and little-known studios to internationally renowned labels such as shirtmakers Charvet, shoemakers Berluti, and the recently revived trunk makers Moynat. The stories behind each house, and the creative minds and artisans who give each brand its unique identity, bring the clothes alive, capturing an unceasing dedication to quality in an era overrun with new, mass-produced trends.
Native Fashion Now: North American Indian Style
Celebrating Native American design as an important force in the world of contemporary fashion, this book features beautiful, innovative, and surprising looks from Native American artists.
Shoe: Contemporary Footwear by Inspiring Designers
From Amélie Pichard's quirky yet wearable oxfords and Nicholas Kirkwood's towering stilettos to Aquazzura's elegant but spicy sandals and Chelsea Paris's formidable heels as wearable art, Shoe: Contemporary Footwear by Inspiring Designers features thirty master shoe designers from Brazil, France, Italy, Poland, Russia, the UK, and the United States, as unique as their creations.
Fashion in China
Fashion in China features 20 emerging Chinese designers and brands operating on the cutting edge of fashion. While it has long been well-known as a center for apparel manufacturing, China has recently come into its own in terms of developing a mature, world-renowned fashion style. The volume explores the distinctive characteristics of Chinese style and design, with design drafts and particulars, finished projects, and other visual aids presented with high-quality photography.
Isaac Mizrahi
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 style is classic American, inventively reimagined. He pioneered the concept of "high/low" in fashion, and was the first high-end fashion designer to create an accessibly priced mass-market line. Mizrahi approached other complex issues through his designs, as well-mixing questions of beauty and taste with those of race, religion, class, and politics.
Issey Miyake
This definitive history of Miyake's clothes offers unparalleled insight into the designer's vision and daring. It looks at the texture-driven originality of Miyake's materials and techniques from the very earliest days of his career, before he had even established the Miyake Design Studio. Tracing his progression through the clothes based on A Piece of Cloth concept, Body Series of the 1980s, Miyake Pleats series, and such practical, everyday designs as Pleats Please pieces, the book builds a compelling monument to Miyake's singular blend of tradition, futurism, and function which remains highly wearable, while forever defying predictability.
From Tip to Toe: The Essential Men's Wardrobe
From Tip to Toe is a book for men who are still finding their style and for those who seek to continuously refine their personal look. This compendium of male style showcases clothing and accessories that range from the elegant to the sporty, from the eccentric to the rustic, but which always stand out from the mainstream. A fundamental guide to the pieces that ought to accompany a man throughout his life, From Tip to Toe features a carefully curated international collection of brands and makers, as well as a selection of recommended shops.
The Giants of Sportswear: Fashion Trends Throughout the Centuries
In The Giants of Sportswear famous names from both worlds such as Puma, Nike, Adidas, Boss, Lauren, Chanel and Prada reveal the secrets of fashionable sportswear.
The House of Worth: Fashion Sketches, 1916-1918
This stylish compilation features 125 watercolor and ink renderings of designs from the house of Worth, the first couturier establishment and founder of the modern fashion industry. Sent to one of their clients, a seasonal resident in Litchfield, Connecticut, the sketches include fabric swatches, design names, detailed price information, and personalized notes.
Sustainable Fashion: What's Next?
As issues surrounding sustainability in the fashion industry continue to evolve, the conversation in this collection of essays from leading fashion academics and practitioners has been updated with current concepts and industry practices. This book examines the challenges that designers, product developers, and consumers confront as they create, wear, and recycle clothing and fashion. Organized into three sections and printed on FSC-certified paper, each section focuses on an in-depth exploration of sustainable opportunities that are identified as people, process and the environment.
New Fashion Figure Templates
For decades, this bestselling collection has helped fashion students and designers-and this expanded edition will provide guidance for generations to come. Not only does it include more than 200 scannable templates of men, women, teens, and children on perforated pages, but costumers will also be given access to a range of templates to download from the Internet. The templates include figures in movement and in a range of poses from different angles, all created by leading fashion designer Patrick John Ireland.
Behind Collections: Graphic Design for Fashion
From graphic identities to visual campaigns, Behind Collections introduces nearly 130 winning works, all stand out due to the unique method of craftsmanship that was used to execute the concept. Whether it is street fashion or high culture, these works captured the essence of the designers' concept and highlighted it furthermore with graphics, printing, and art directions. In four chapters, this book follows unique styles that designers created for department stores, eye-catching young labels and the likes of Dries van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Hermés, Maison Martin Margiela, Issey Miyake, Acne Studio and many others.
Fashion Unfolds: Vivienne Westwood
From the Anarchy Shirt and Bondage Suit to the Buffalo Hat immortalized by Pharrell Williams when he wore it to the 2014 Grammy Awards over 30 years after it was first launched, the publication focuses on key pieces in Westwood's collection, from 1976 to the present day. Groundbreaking designs such as the Mini Crini, Statue of Liberty Corset as well as the Mock-croc woman's 12-inch high platform shoes from the "Anglomania" collection, which supermodel Naomi Campbell was wearing when she famously fell on the runway, are reproduced in full colour and supported by texts and other images of the designer's inspiration.
Fashion Design for Living
Fashion Design for Living explores the positive contribution that the contemporary fashion designer can make within society. The book seeks to reveal new ways of designing and making fashion garments and products that not only enhance and enrich our lives, but also are mindful of social and sustainable issues.
Shoes: An Illustrated History
Lavishly illustrated with a dazzling array of shoes from all over the world, Shoes: An Illustrated History tells the extraordinary story of this ultimate object of desire, from antiquity to the present.
Creative Fashion Illustration: How to Develop Your Own Style
Fashion illustration is skillful and inventive, and the best fashion illustrators can fulfill a brief creatively using their own unique approach. Visually-led and extremely accessible, this book is the go-to resource for anyone wanting to develop their own style. Easy-to-follow exercises are designed to build confidence and encourage experimentation as readers develop essential skills and learn simple and effective tips and tricks.
Cool Shades: The History and Meaning of Sunglasses
Ubiquitous in fashion, advertising, film and graphic design, sunglasses are the ultimate signifier of 'cool' in mass culture; a powerful attribute pervading much fashion and pop cultural imagery which has received little scholarly attention until now. Cool Shades provides the first in-depth exploration of the enduring appeal of sunglasses in visual culture, both historically and today.
Indian Fashion: Tradition, Innovation, Style
Fashion in India is distinctly unique, in its aesthetics, systems, designers and influences. Indian Fashion is the first study of its kind to examine the social, political, global and local elements that give shape to this multifaceted center. Spanning India's long historical contribution to global fashion to the emergence of today's vibrant local fashion scene, Sandhu provides a comprehensive overview of the Indian fashion world.
Dance and Fashion
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 from Christian Dior to Christian Louboutin. Cristóbal Balenciaga was inspired by the drama of flamenco, Yves Saint Laurent by the Orientalism of the Ballet Russes, and Rick Owens by the dynamism of African-American steppers. Lavishly illustrated with both contemporary and historical images, the book features essays by ten fashion experts, who explore various aspects of the reciprocal relationship between dance and fashion, from the liberating effects of the tango to the influence of ballet on Japanese girl culture.
Fashion Merchandising: Principles and Practice
This book explores the role of fashion merchandising: how it can add value to a fashion business; the remit and scope of the role and the function; and the planning and trading processes. It does so within the broader context of the fashion industry, and also considers the challenges facing the wider industry: CSR, sustainability and globalization.
The Future Of Fashion Is Now
The Future of Fashion is Now focuses on new visions and fresh designs by young fashion designers from all over the world. It seeks out designers with non-Western backgrounds and designers from the fringes of Europe, where until recently there was effectively no fashion tradition, who are actively looking to modernize the fashion system.
Dior: New Couture
The second volume of legendary photographer Patrick Demarchelier's sublime portraits of iconic Dior haute couture looks, from Christian Dior to Raf Simons. Working closely with the House of Dior, Demarchelier showcases the extraordinary gowns made in the Dior ateliers from 1947 to today. Alongside dresses designed by Dior himself, creations by the designers who succeeded him show the continuity of the house's rich heritage up to the absolute modernity of Raf Simons's designs.
Emerging Fashion Designers 4
The fourth edition of Emerging Fashion Designers showcases the exciting new designs created by more than 80 recent graduates from 18 premier fashion design programs in the United States. With over 300 striking color images, this fourth edition brings the fresh perspective of the next generation of young designers to the forefront via beautifully designed garments and skillfully rendered illustrations for eveningwear, menswear, lingerie, activewear including yoga and snowboarding apparel, and much more.
Halston: Inventing American Fashion
Halston: Inventing American Fashion is the first monograph to chronicle the designer's life and his glamorous, minimalist aesthetic that personified American fashion in the electric 1970s.
Contemporary Menswear: The Insider's Guide to Independent Men's Fashion
Contemporary Menswear presents in-depth profiles of more than fifty of the designers, labels, brands, stores, websites, and blogs that have shaped and continue to shape menswear in the twenty-first century.
The Secrets of Fashion Drawing
The Secrets of Fashion Drawing delves deeper into the exciting visual languages developed by the fashion industry and shows you how to incorporate them in your work. Lavishly illustrated in full color, the book contains examples from a range of practicing fashion designers and illustrators, and step-by-step illustrations showing how to get the best results.
Italian Style: Fashion Since 1945
Featuring designers and labels of the highest caliber alongside bespoke tailors and ready-to-wear menswear specialists, this book offers an unparalleled look at the inspiration, marketing, skill, and craftsmanship behind the finest Italian labels.
Fashion in the 1940s
Fashion in the 1940s reveals the impact of wartime on British fashion, how a spirit of utility, make-do and mend unleashed a whole new creativity among Britain's women starved of high fashion by rationing. Many of these home dressmakers copied the high-end looks. Women doing war work created new street fashion looks.