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Fashion
Fashion explores clothing and adornment from a uniquely global perspective. Lively and provocative essays, drawn from interviews with prominent fashion industry insiders—including contemporary designers, fashion editors, and curators—give new insights into the role fashion has played in history.
Combining illuminating text with exquisite archival and contemporary images, Fashion is not only an essential reference tool but also a gorgeously designed volume that will stand out in both the art and photography markets. This remarkable book offers a thorough and tantalizing look at the ways in which fashion shapes us and the world in which we live.
Books: Hardcover
Visionaries : Interviews With Fashion Designers
From Azzedine Alaïa to Zandra Rhodes, Ghost to Jean-Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood to Junya Watanabe, plus, of course, the names behind such universally recognized monograms as CdG, D&G, and YSL, Susannah Frankel's collection of in-depth interviews with 23 of the world's top couturiers-and the only book of its kind.
Originally written at pivotal moments in their careers, each subject openly deconstructs his or her own designs and offers exclusive insights into their minds and to the cultural climate at the time.
Books: Hardcover
40 Over 40 : 40 Things Every Women over 40 Needs to Know About Getting Dressed
With generous doses of humor, 40 over 40 speaks to the 40-something woman, helping her develop style and expression through her clothes with 40 helpful hints and strategies. The book provides compassionate support for the busy woman who, already befuddled by fashion, may be really lost now that she imagines she's over the hill fashionwise. While acknowledging the changes time brings, 40 over 40 promises to help a woman create a closet of clothes that provides deep satisfaction and makes getting dressed an enjoyable experience.
Books: Paperback
Your Executive Image : How to Look Your Best & Project Success
Your Executive Image reveals how posture, body language, behavior, and wardrobe choices combine to leave an impression that works for you. Provides detailed shopping checklists, body language translation charts, helpful packing lists for travelers and strategies from overcoats to undergarments.
Books: Paperback
New Women's Dress for Success
A noted expert on the corporate American wardrobe examines how changes in dress codes affect the way women are perceived and offers advice for achieving a professional and polished, yet relaxed look in business attire.
Books: Paperback
The Power of Style : The Women Who Defined the Art of Living Well
The Power of Style reveals the inner qualities of 14 remarkable women who define style in ways that have lasted for generations. Witty and fascinating excursions into the worlds of Coco Chanel, Pauline de Rothschild, Diana Vreeland, Elsie de Wolfe, and others are captured in lavish photographs and entertaining anecdotes. We discover not only the preeminent influence that these women held over fashion and culture, but also the wry, often poignant tales of their personal lives.
Books: Hardcover
Madeleine Vionnet
Who was the greatest dressmaker ever? Madeleine Vionnet of course. Starting as a twelve-year-old apprentice she began the rise to the top of the fashion world as the proprietor of her own house of couture.
A superb technician and a maverick dressmaker, she invented new pattern-making techniques that brought about her innovative and sensous designs.
Books: Hardcover
Halston
This book, a visual anthology of Halston's life and legacy, includes previously unpublished catwalk photographs, rare archival photographs by Warhol, behind-the-scenes images of fashion shows and parties, sketches and specially commissioned photographs of Halston collections
Books: Hardcover
Little Black Dress : Vintage Treasure
An essential piece of clothing in a woman's closet, the little black dress has maintained its popularity thought all trends because it is always the "right" thing to wear. It is a timeless classic and all great designers have created their own variation.
This collection is a delightful tour of the black dress from yesterday to today.
Books: Hardcover
The Art of Dress : Clothes and Society, 1500-1914
What emerges from the scrutiny of 400 years of fashion is a book of fascinating facts as well an incredibly wide range of subjects--children's apparel, the retail trade, wigs, and servant dress, among others.
Books: Hardcover
Valentino's Red Book : Boxed
Valentino is a deluxe tribute to one of the most influential designers of our time. Since the debut of his line in 1960, Valentino has outfitted some of the world's most glamorous and trend-setting women, including Jackie Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Princess Diana, and Sharon Stone. This two-language edition (Italian and English) pays tribute to the fine craftsmanship and detail work of the Valentino line, while celebrating the critical role it has played in the fashion world for the past forty years.
Books: Hardcover
John Rawlings: 30 Years in Vogue
With over 200 Vogue and Glamour covers to his credit and 30,000 photos in archive, John Rawlings (1921-1970) immortalized the era in which American fashion and style truly came into their own. During his three-decade affiliation with Conde Nast, Rawlings’s work paralleled his publishers’ and editors’ efforts to reformat and expand the power and scope of the fashion press.
Drawing on the photographer’s recently rediscovered archive, curator Kohle Yohannan presents glamour portraits that testify to the artist’s ground-breaking and compelling body of work.
Books: Hardcover
The Bombshell Manual of Style
What is a bombshell? She's a combustible blend of confidence and vulnerability, sauce and naivete. In this glittering beauty and lifestyle guide packed with pearls of wisdom, Laren Stover has compiled everything a woman needs to know to live the Bombshell life: from how to dress and make an entrance to what to eat and where to shop.
Books: Hardcover
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