Design

A Financial Times Book of the Year 2022A glamorous tribute to Karl Lagerfeld's highly influential creations for Chanel captured behind the scenes by US Vogue photographer Robert Fairer in beautiful, never-before-seen images. Casting a new light on one...

'Hugely entertaining history' - MojoBetween the late '60s and early '80s, design house Hipgnosis created some of the most iconic and ubiquitous album artwork of all time. Their original lifespan coincided with the golden age of the 12-inch LP, beginning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933820712Author Christian CrumlishFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Rosenfeld MediaPublisher Rosenfeld Media

Pattern cutting, or pattern making, is an essential yet complex skill for every fashion designer to master. Pattern Cutting: The Architecture of Fashion demystifies the pattern cutting process and clearly demonstrates pattern fundamentals, enabling you...

The first book on the work of a designer whose refined classical interiors are widely desired and emulated as the epitome of French style. Honoured as one of the top designers by all the international design magazines and universally admired by design...

Don't just fold and look at your origami work - wear it! Using papers in a dazzling array of colours and wonderful patterns, textures, and finishes, and with traditional folding skills and simple jewellery-making techniques, you'll learn to fashion...

Following the first volume of Fashion Draping Techniques, which focused on details, this new volume takes a step forward and moves on to complete items of clothing, such as dresses, blouses, jackets, and skirts, all explained in a detailed and easy to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486237039Author Jim HarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 370gDimensions(mm)...

Dressing Up shows why clothes made history and history can be about clothes. It imagines the Renaissance afresh by considering people s appearances: what they wore, how this made them move, what images they created, and how all this made people feel...

Progressing through almost two centuries of corset-making, this fascinating collection showcases an astonishing range of period pieces, from the 1750 whale-boned corsets, through the invention of the sewing machine and mass-produced corsets of the 1850s...

Dressy men as a type of celebrity have played a distinctive part in the cultural - and even in the political - life of Britain over several centuries. But unlike the twenty-first-century hipster, the dandies of the British past provoked intense degrees...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978548957Author Cindy CooperFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint 83 PressPublisher 83 PressWeight(grams) 1520gDimensions(mm) 292mm * 259mm * 25mm

The story of fashion is woven through with colour. Vividly illustrated and compellingly written, The Colour of Fashion uncovers the colourful history of style, through 10 shades and their key moments in the spotlight - including Beyonce in empowering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780677910Author Pamela PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 1510g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486255781Author Lis BartholmFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 175gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912018864Author Alistair HallPage Count 2Imprint Blue Crow MediaPublisher Blue Crow MediaWeight(grams) 40gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857245782Author Gian Carlo CalzaFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2100g

Featuring 666 standout metal songs from 1960 to the present day and illustrated with sleeves, flyers, posters and magazine ads, this is a feast for fans who love it loud.666 Songs to Make You Bang Your Head Until You Die delves into the dark corners of...

This comprehensive survey of textiles from every region of the Indian subcontinent runs the gamut of commercial, tribal and folk textiles. The authors first place them in cultural context by examining the history, materials and various techniques -...

Socks are one of the most popular projects among experienced knitters, yet they can mystify beginning knitters. Socks require techniques not typically used in simple projects such as scarves and hats, but these techniques are as easy to learn as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781302924393Author Maurene GooFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Marvel ComicsPublisher Marvel Comics

Alexander McQueen has grasped the public's imagination like few other fashion designers before him, with exhibitions dedicated to his work continuing to attract record visitor numbers. Almost 500,000 people visited the V&A's 2015 'Alexander McQueen:...

In Gods and Kings Dana Thomas, author of Deluxe, tells the story of how John Galliano and Alexander McQueen changed the face of fashionIn the first decade of the 21st century the fashion world was dominated by two different but equally successful and...

On the one hand clothes can supposedly help you out with embodied life by concealing the bits you feel ashamed of and accentuating the bits you're proud of. However, fashion isn't really about clothes in any practical sense, but rather the endless...

Winner of 'History Book of the Year' in Scotland's National Book Awards 2021 A brilliant book revealing the complex messages that Stuart fashion conveyed about individual rulers' personalities, and about kingship more broadly This is the first detailed...

From workaday marigolds to hand-wear custom crafted for the Queen, gloves perform many functions - insulation from the cold, protection from injury, and even ceremonial roles. Gloves have been used since prehistoric times, but in Britain their use as...

Little Germany takes us back to the nineteenth century, when Bradford, West Yorkshire, was the wool capital of the world. Over the centuries, Germany and Great Britain have been close trading partners. When Bradford became renowned for its rapidly...

Edwardian fashions for women were characterized by the S-shaped silhouette, embellished with lace, tucks, ruffles, tassels, frills and flounces. This essential book includes eleven detailed projects, which form a capsule collection of clothing and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869930978Author Future PressFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Future Press Verlag und Marketing GmbHPublisher Future Press Verlag und Marketing GmbH

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548687Author Anthony DunneFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The Artist Blacksmith is the essential handbook for anyone interested in bringing a creative, contemporary approach to this ancient craft, and for those already hooked who want to improve and expand their skills. Topics covered include: the range and use...

The social season of debutante parties and private balls,weddings and charity events has long provided Britain'sfashion designers with opportunities to design elaborate,tour de force eveningwear. In more recent years theballroom has been replaced by the...

Jeweller and goldsmith Peter Carl Faberge and his firm are renowned for creating the most superbly refined objects of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for the nobility and aristocracy of imperial Russia. Exquisite examples of the...

Camille's art is visceral, immediate and instinctive. Her bold colours, playful shapes and geometric patterns create a powerful visual energy, lifting moods, stirring hearts and raising smiles in all who pass by. Known for her ambitious, largescale and...

With pieces drawn from the extensive personal collection of Pharrell Williams, this is a stunning and unprecedented exploration of the 'bling' in hip-hop culture and fashion. Few recording artists have had a greater hand in incorporating the culture of...

A Life in Car Design gives a unique insight into design and project work for a number of leading companies in the motor industry, including Jaguar, Lotus, TVR and General Motors.The book recounts the author's experiences from within the industry, tracing...

The first and only comprehensive overview of Givenchy's collections, presented through catwalk photography and published in collaboration with the celebrated fashion house. Founded by the dashing Hubert de Givenchy in 1952, the house would go on to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782081514010Author Marie-France PochnaFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 1040g

Navitimer. A mysterious name at first glance. It is in fact a contraction of two words, which correspond to the two major functions of a revolutionary watch: NAVIgation and TIMER. A chronograph designed for airborne navigation. But much more than that,...

An elegant collection of Alice Charbin's whimsical illustrations from her 18-year collaboration with Hermes For 18 years, illustrator Alice Charbin has been inviting people to escape to the whimsical world of Hermes, where the brand's iconic orange...