Fashion Books
History of Fashion
History of Fashion: New Look to Now traces the history of fashion design with its intriguing personalities and its international cast of players and puts them into the context of what was happening in the world outside fashion. Covering haute couture to the emergence of deluxe, boutique and ready-to-wear, this book illustrates the trends in fashion over the decades and the well worn truth that what goes around comes around.
Designing Your Fashion Portfolio
Designing Your Fashion Portfolio: From Concept to Presentation uses the design process to guide students through conceptualization and assembly of a fashion design portfolio that will communicate their talents and vision as designers. The richly illustrated text helps students assemble their work and organize it into a compelling story of their artistic talents and market savvy.
Everyday Fashions of the Sixties
Everyday Fashions of the Sixties features scores of illustrations with their original captions specifying colors, sizes, prices. Items include apparel for men, women, and children - from lingerie and playclothes to bridal ensembles, Madras jackets, and vinyl slicker coats.
Everyday Fashions of the Thirties
Over 130 fully illustrated pages from Sears catalogs offer historically accurate images of what men, women, and children wore throughout 1930s.
Everyday Fashions of the Twenties
Everyday Fashions of the Twenties includes an accurate record of actual dress of the Roaring Twenties in over 150 pages of mail-order catalogs, selected and with text by Stella Blum. Over 750 illustrations, captions.
Chinese Fashion Industry
Chinese Fashion Industry offers a historically informed, ethnographically grounded and interpretive analysis of contemporary Chinese fashion and the fashion industry. It examines the interplay of state politics, market forces, local social and cultural factors, and the global political economy, both in the rise of the Chinese fashion industry and in the life and work of Chinese fashion professionals.
Titanic Style: Dress and Fashion on the Voyage
In Titanic Style: Dress and Fashion on the Voyage, historian Grace Evans invites us onto the ship in an examination of the clothing worn by its passengers for not only an historic snapshot of fashion, but a springboard into the lives of virtually all classes and ages at that particular moment in time.
Basics Fashion Management 02: Fashion Promotion
Basics Fashion Management 02: Fashion Promotion examines what's required for a 21st century fashion brand to make its mark and stay visible in a shifting consumer landscape. It addresses the new ways in which brands engage with customers, through the latest digital channels as well as traditional methods.
Fifty Fashion Looks that Changed the 1970's
Fifty Fashion Looks that Changed the 1970's takes a look at key pieces in fashion history from the 1970s. From Bianca Jagger in Halston, Diane von Furstenberg's first wrap dress to the rise of punk, this book captures the influential looks of the decade.
Fifty Fashion Looks that Changed the 1960's
Fifty Fashion Looks that Changed the 1960's takes a look at key pieces in fashion history from the 1960s. From the Courreges 'Moon Girls' to Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell's 'romantic peasants', this books captures the influential looks of the decade.
Fifty Fashion Looks that Changed the 1950's
Fifty Fashion Looks that Changed the 1950s showcases fifty iconic outfits from one of fashion's most influential and exciting decades. From the bombshell glamour of Marilyn Monroe in How to Marry a Millionnaire to the emergence of teenage style, via the sculptural forms of Christian Dior's New Look and Balenciaga's double A-line, this elegant sourcebook celebrates all the looks that revolutionized fashion.
Designing Accessories
Designing Accessories features many interviews and perspectives from designers such as Philip Treacy, the multi-award-winning milliner, whose hats have adorned the heads of royalty. The book looks at product development, construction techniques, materials and finishes, and includes a chapter on small accessories.
Flats: Technical Drawing for Fashion
Flats: Technical Drawing for Fashion explains how to create a technical fashion drawing using a simple andstraightforward step-by-step method accompanied by some time-saving tips. The method is explained for those who wish to use Adobe Illustrator as well as for those who prefer to draw by hand.
Fashion Futures
Futuristic garment designs are often inspired by surprising sources: biological science, climate change, space suits, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology. Fashion Futures offers a fascinating survey of these new directions, charting the transformational products, design processes, maverick materials, and groundbreaking practitioners that are revolutionizing fashion.
Footwear Design
Illustrated throughout with inspirational sketchbooks detailing the design process and specially commissioned images of cutting-edge shoe design, Footwear Design also contains case studies featuring an array of international shoe designers.
Fashion: The Industry and Its Careers
Fashion: The Industry and Its Careers offers a thorough and informative exploration of fashion careers across the board, including designer, textile manufacturer, retailer, wholesaler, illustrator, model, product developer, journalist, publicist, trend forecaster and more.
Handbags
Handbags features specially commissioned photographs of an extraordinary, newly formed collection of fashionable handbags that date from the 16th century to the present day.
Shoes
Shoes takes you on an enthralling tour of sixty of the most iconic shoe styles thorough the years, showcasing a wide range of the most revered designers and their most sought after creations - from Maud Frison's hot-pink cone heels and Manolo Blahnik's Camparis to bejewelled sandals by Gina and patchwork python platforms by Terry de Haviland.
Shoe Innovations: A Visual Celebration of 60 Styles
Shoe Innovations is an enthralling survey of 60 of the most iconic shoe styles of the 20th and 21st centuries, from the Edwardian Louis heel, through the 1940s wedge, to the extreme architectural designs of Pierre Hardy for Balenciaga. The book showcases a wide range of the most revered designers and their most sought-after creations.
Fashion Resource Book
Fashion Resource Book is an essential fashion reference for students and professionals alike, organized in a series of detailed case studies. The first part of the book investigates the research process in the work of designers such as Paul Smith, Comme des Garçons, and Anna Sui. The second section covers subjects like vintage and retro, the use of archives, and the influence of art movements such as op art and surrealism.
How to Create Your Final Collection
How to Create Your Final Collection: A Fashion Student's Handbook provides a step-by-step guide to creating this collection, with each chapter exploring a different stage of the project: from understanding the brief and identifying the market to research, development, and sampling, through to garment design, range planning, and styling and presentation.
The Fundamentals of Fashion Design
The Fundamentals of Fashion Design offers an illustrated introduction to the key elements of fashion design, from the initial concept of a fashion idea through to its realization in 3D form.
Europe: Rising Fashion Designers
Europe: Rising Fashion Designers features the current and emerging trends in European fashion design with 490 vibrant color photos. Ninety-three students from top schools present their premier work, fashions that are sure to inspire readers and fire their imaginations.
Fashion: 150 Years of Couturiers, Designers, Labels
Fashion: 150 Years of Couturiers, Designers, Labels is devoted to the legendary world of fashion from its origins in the nineteenth century until our own time. Informative chapters that introduce each era coupled with extensive portraits of the groundbreaking fashion icons and countless expressive photographs work together to form a comprehensive portrayal of the rapid development that took fashion from the liberation of women from the corset all the way to the creations of modern designers.
100 New Fashion Designers Mini
100 New Fashion Designers Mini showcases the diverse and unique work of the best 100 new creatives in fashion design from around the world.
Freelance Fashion Designer's Handbook
The Freelance Fashion Designer's Handbook is a essential guide on how to go it alone, covering what to expect, making sure you get paid, planning your time, keeping up with your accounts, compiling technical packages for garments.
New Fashion Designers' Sketchbooks
New Fashion Designers' Sketchbooks looks at research sketchbooks and the role they play in the research and design process. Demonstrating how ideas are constructed, for single garments as well as entire collections, the book looks at how pages and whole sketchbooks are put together.
Fashion Now
Fashion Now highlights the work of over 90 designers around the globe, focusing on not only the biggest names but also the most exciting new talent. A to Z designer entries include extensive biographical information, photos of recent designs by today's leading photographers, and current catwalk shots.
Dressing Marilyn
William Travilla is one of the best costume designers of all time and Marilyn Monroe his most famous client. Dressing Marilyn: How a Hollywood Icon Was Styled by William Travilla focuses on the striking dresses that Travilla designed for Marilyn. Featuring Travilla's original sketches, rare costume test shots, dress patterns, photographs of Marilyn wearing the dresses, plus exclusive and never-before-seen extracts from interviews with Travilla, this book offers a fresh insight into the golden age of Hollywood.
Blue is the New Black
Written for fashion graduates, newbie entrepreneurs and those in entry-level positions in the industry, Blue is the New Black demystifies the process of how to make a fashion collection accessible for all levels.