Fashion Books
Fashion Sourcebook - 1920s
Fashion Sourcebook - 1920s comprehensively documents the seasonal fashion styles of the 1920s. Sumptuously illustrated with more than 600 original photographs, drawings and prints, the book focuses largely on the Art Deco period, with its beautiful beaded dresses, cloche hats and t-bar shoes as worn by the fahsionable flappers and the "bright young things" of the time.
Stylists: New Fashion Visionaries
Stylists are some of the most influential people working within the fashion industry, responsible for the final shape of many exciting works in popular culture. Still unsung heroes, they are now becoming increasingly well known in their own right, alongside the photographers, art directors and magazine editors of the industry. The book will cover styling for commercial ad campaigns, for fashion editorial as well as inside the business of retail itself, looking at the hugely successful brands and designers for whom the super stylists consult.
IMPACT: 50 Years of the CFDA
IMPACT is the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, exploring the influence of the careers of America's most influential designers over the last five decades. Anchored by Patricia Mears's illuminating essay on the history of the CFDA, this book incorporates over 300 personal Impact statements from the most important names in American fashion, including Marc Jacobs, Alexander Wang, Ralph Lauren, Proenza Schouler, and Donna Karan.
Art&Sole
Focusing exclusively on contemporary, cutting-edge sneaker design, Art & Sole sets out to explore and to celebrate the creative side of sneaker culture showing the best and most original rarities and collaborations.
Color Forecasting for Fashion
In this book, Kate Scully and Debra Johnston Cobb look at the skills a colour forecaster employs to draw a colour palette together, as well as colour theory and other factors. With informative timelines and illustrated examples, this book breaks down the forecasting process and explains the combination of research and intuitive skills that a successful designer or forecaster needs.
Tokyo Fashion Graphics
Tokyo Fashion Graphics presents up-to-the-minute promotional tools used in Japan's high-fashion industry. Focusing mainly on Tokyo, this book will introduce readers to visual tactics used in daily sales promotions as well as in seasonal merchandising used by Japan's most accomplished designers.
Fashionable Technology
Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science, and Technology is a compact survey of the theory involved and an explanation of the role technology plays in a fabric or article of clothing. The practical application is explained in detail and numerous illustrations serve as clarification. Over 50 well-known designers, research institutes, companies and artists, among them Philips, Burton, MIT Media Lab, XS Labs, New York University, Hussein Chalayan, Cute Circuit or International Fashion Machines are introduced by means of their latest, often still unpublished, project, and a survey of their work to date.
Fashion Trends: Analysis and Forecasting
Fashion Trends: Analysis and Forecasting is designed to introduce undergraduate students to the central concepts of fashion trend analysis and forecasting. Exploring the roles of both consumers and industry personnel as product developers, gatekeepers, and promoters of fashion trends, the book demonstrates how and why forecasting is vital to successful product and brand development.
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier
Published by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Abrams in conjunction with the first-ever retrospective on Gaultier, this stunning hardcover book in a slipcase explores the ties between the designer and the pop/rock music scene, film, and dance, and sheds light on his sources of inspiration, which are as eclectic as they are impertinent.
GUCCI
An unprecedented publication showcasing Gucci as never before, including thought-provoking essays, commentaries, and authoritative anecdotes along with previously unpublished contemporary and archival photographs. Published in conjunction with the opening of the new Gucci Museum in Florence, Gucci is the ultimate celebration of the world-renowned fashion house.
Japanese Fashion Designers
Over the past 40 years Japanese designers have led the way in aligning fashion with art, ideology and integrity, as well as addressing identity and social politics through dress. The inspirational Miyake, Yamamoto and Kawakubo have gained worldwide respect and admiration and have influenced a generation of designers and artists alike.Based on twelve years of research, this book provides a richly detailed and uniquely comprehensive view of the work of these three key designers.
Shoes
From practical wardrobe accessories to objects of desire, this book is a stunning visual and fascinating historical reference exploring every aspect of shoes.
Retro Fashion
Fashion is reinvented and recycled offering us renewed versions of itself, its retro side. Retro Fashion investigates fashion and the latest trends, showing proposals with clear references to different decades of the 20th century.
New African Fashion
Ever since the late 1960s when Yves Saint Laurent and Paco Rabanne presented African-inspired collections, the textiles, details, and colors of Africa have moved into the realm of high fashion. From Africa-inspired to African-made, this guide is the first to celebrate a new wave of fashion designers who are emerging on the global stage.
Fashion Design Drawing Course: Principles, Practice, and Techniques
Now available in a brand-new edition, this popular and widely praised instructional textbook has become a standard for classroom use in fashion design courses. Twenty-four step-by-step exercises tutor students in methods for finding inspiration, developing techniques to sharpen their observational skills, and in creating fashion drawings in color and black-and-white media.
Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns 2
Book Two in the V&A's groundbreaking new series presents 17 patterns for garments and accessories from a seventeenth-century woman's wardrobe. It includes patterns for a loose gown, a jacket, a pair of stays and a boned bodice, ivory and wooden busks, shoes, a hat, a stomacher, linen bands and supporters, a bag and a knife case. It also features a description of the stay-making process.
The Fashion Careers Guidebook
Author Julia Yates explains the fashion industry's many and complex facets, offers detailed descriptions of its widely varied career opportunities, and instructs her readers on effective ways to stand out from the crowd of job seekers. She advises on preparing resumes and portfolios, dealing with job interviews, and mastering the art of networking. She offers inside tips on finding and following up on fashion industry jobs that others don't know about, and discusses internships as a possible path toward career success.
Pattern-drafting for Fashion
Aimed at fashion students and serious home dressmakers, Pattern- drafting for Fashion- Advanced is a comprehensive guide to making and altering your own patterns from start to finish. This book shows how, from a basic block, to set about an alteration, and to adapt and personalize a style.
Iconic America
Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger and famous adman George Lois have crafted an enlightening book, searching American history to find over 350 people, symbols, and things of import. Their iconic and iconoclastic choices are entertainingly presented through surprising visual juxtapositions. Inspired by Tommy Hilfiger's passion for Americana and George Lois' wit, Iconic America dramatizes the national ethos, and makes us think about who we are and what we stand for, with humor and charm.
Decades of Fashion
From the glamour of the 30s to the extremes of the 80s, this volume offers an impressive pictorial overview of the fashion world of the entire twentieth century.
City Fashion Berlin
City Fashion invites us to explore the fascinating world of fashion. Here, it is not the renowned designers that stand in the focus, but the young top designers and the upcoming fashion stars of tomorrow. No other book delves so deeply into the fashion scene of Berlin. The chapters "Amazing Fashion" and "Luxury Fashion" show the young creative folks setting tomorrow's trends. Special attention is given to the new and upcoming representatives of "Green Fashion."
Identities Through Fashion
Identities Through Fashion intends to bring together academics from various disciplines - philosophy, sociology, medicine, anthropology, psychology and psychiatry - to examine fashion's complex relationship with post-industrial societies.
Guide to Producing a Fashion Show
Guide to Producing a Fashion Show is for anyone interested in producing a fashion show, be it an informal event or a large, complex affair. Examining every behind-the-scenes step from concept to execution, this book enables the reader to organize and stage a show that is profitable, well attended, and aesthetically pleasing.
Hussein Chalayan
A comprehensive book from Rizzoli on the visionary Hussein Chalayan, one of the most innovative, experimental, and conceptual fashion designers working today. Internationally acclaimed, Hussein Chalayan is known for his inventive use of materials and integration of new technology into his designs. He is also celebrated for putting the creative process itself on view.
Russian Elegance
This beautifully illustrated book shows examples of Russian dress and accessories from the 15th to the early 20th century. Derived from the collection of the State Historical Museum and covering both dress worn in the countryside and in the city, this book is a fabulous feast of splendid patterns and fine detail.
Italian Fashion Now
Italian Fashion Now is all about what's hot in the fashion world, but more importantly, what will be hot very soon. Maria Luisa Frisa features a select group of young designers, students from well-regarded fashion schools both in Italy and elsewhere abroad, who she believes to have a genuine understanding of the art of design.
German Fashion Design 1946-2012
In the mid-1980s, people began to speak about German fashion designers. Today, the annual sales volume of the German textile and clothing industry is about 20 billion euros, with exports ranging near 40 percent. This book is a reader about the background of German fashion, its developments, trends, and its prospects.
Koto Bolofo: La Maison
For the past four years, innovative fashion photographer Koto Bolofo has had behind-the-scenes access to the Hermes fashion empire. La Maison contains exclusive images made as Bolofo worked his way through Hermes' workshops, discovering how their wares are made, from handbags, perfumes, scarves, pret-a-porter and shoes to the first accessory ever produced by the house: saddles.
The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America
In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Here, Kate Haulman explores how and why fashion - both as a concept and as the changing style of personal adornment - linked gender relations, social order, commerce, and political authority during a time when traditional hierarchies were in flux.
Visual Research Methods in Fashion
The ability to analyse and interpret visual information is essential in fashion. However, students tend to struggle with the concept of visual research as well as with application of that research. Visual Research Methods in Fashion provides students with techniques, tools and inspiration to master their visual research skills and make the research that they undertake more effective.