Fashion & Accessories

Winner of Best Performance Design and Scenography Publication Award, Prague Quadrennial 2019 This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical...

Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla have built a 28-year partnership that has included designing for India's leading actors and actresses, working with directors on costumes for epic Bollywood films, and building a brand that exudes luxury, artistry and Indian...

"... pieces are beautifully crafted" - Net-a-porter.com Birds of paradise, exotic flowers, the Garden of Eden, Gustav Klimt, Art Nouveau and Les Ballets Russes are sources of inspiration for the fantastic and exclusive oeuvre of Belgian lingerie and...

A virtual pageantry of the many ways in which military styles inspire and influence contemporary fashion The transformation of military clothing into popular retail fashion has a long history. In fact, the designs of some of today's most popular styles,...

This book is a comprehensive library of dress styles to be used as a reference for the fashion designer, fashion student and anyone interested in the fashion industry. The book is a springboard for ideas. Designer-educators Tracy Fitzgerald and Alison...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Benjamin Franklin Award (Multicultural) 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780999051719Author Susan Schaefer DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Thrums...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857239873Author Emma McClendonFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1000g

Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication Award. Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between fashion and performance art, from Lady Gaga's raw meat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780676036Author Daniel James ColeFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 2410g

In the iF ranking, Loewe is among the top 10 German companies awarded for exceptional design performances. This is a good reason to take a close look at the design history of the company on the occasion of its 100-year anniversary. The design historian...

This stylish publication heralds a new movement in fashion - the arrival of Scandinavian designers onto the world scene. Their appeal lies in the simplicity, minimalism, attention to detail and high quality of materials so iconic in Scandinavian design,...

Take up your all-access pass to one of the most dynamic areas of the international fashion industry. Lavishly illustrated and packed with industry insights, The Fashion Show is the must-have guide to showing off a collection. You will learn about: ...

A generation of girls grew up with Valerie Phillips's work pinned on their bedroom walls. The self- confessed Peter Pan is famous for capturing the essence of female youth-girls who boldly unravel their individual quirks before the...

An exclusive homage to - and retrospective of - the iconic fashion designer's couture accessories.'One can never overstate the importance of accessories. They are what turns a dress into something else. I like dresses to be sober and accessories to be...

A sumptuous journey into the vibrant world of Parisian jewelry designer Marie-Helene de Taillac, renowned for her traditional craftsmanship, colorful gemstones, and exotic inspirations. The French designer s first-ever monograph, this book showcases de...

Fashion Education explores how the classroom can transform the fashion industry towards body inclusion and social justice. The book is a collection of 17 essays by fashion educators from Australia, Canada, the US and the UK who recount their...

Disappearing dress codes, customers as designers and wearable technology; in recent years the production and function of clothing has undergone massive change. New manufacturing technologies have brought bespoke design within reach of many consumers for...

Shows how the design process can be successfully applied to satisfy market needs and trends Fashion design seems to be a glamorous mystery for which only the fortunate few have sufficient talent to succeed. In reality, commercially successful results...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781533583161Author Beth IngriasFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

In her seventy-year career as a fashion journalist, newspaper columnist, and author, Marylou Luther has interviewed the most iconic figures in the fashion world who open up and spill the proverbial fashion dirt to Luther. In her early days as a...

Olivier Theyskens s refined sensibilities earned him international acclaim as the dark prince of late 1990s couture. From his first saturnine collections, to his new vision for Rochas, to his patterns and textiles at Nina Ricci, to his years designing...

Using a simple, clear, logical, precise method, these books are conceived through a rational technique known as Flat Patternmaking which gives valid, key formulas to help construct any conceivable garment. The methods are accessible to everyone those...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780678375Author Basia SzkutnickaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983388937Author Michael PickFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Pointed Leaf PressPublisher Pointed Leaf Press

Fashion studies is a burgeoning field that often highlights the contributions of genius designers and high-profile brands with little reference to what goes on behind the scenes in the supply chain. This book pulls back the curtain on the global fashion...

The Perfect Fit shows us how globalization works through the many people and places involved in making women's shoes. We know a lot about how clothing and shoes are made cheaply, but very little about the process when they are made beautifully. In The...

For hundreds of years consumers and scholars have acknowledged that food is affected by the same rapid shifts in taste and consumption as clothing. Trends in fashion and in food are increasingly being marketed in tandem and sold as fashionable...

Denim s sexiness, whether it is being dressed up or dressed down, has made it the ultimate fashion statement as well as the ultimate anti-fashion statement. This book is an ode to the enduring cool of denim and the creative ways it can be worn,...

The fourth book in kate spade new york's successful series, SHE: muses, visionaries and madcap heroines invites readers back into a way of living that is singularly joyous, distinctly feminine, and wildly interesting. To the New York-based brand, the...

"There have been volumes written on and by Terence Conran and Mary Quant, but this is the first time they have been placed together in a book. And it works." - Colin McDowell, The Times "It is given to a fortunate few to be born at the right time, in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486467610Author R.Turner WilcoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

A tortured genius and one of most influential designers of the twentieth century, Yves Saint Laurent was responsible for revolutionising the way women dressed and viewed themselves.During a wildly creative career stretching from 1958 to 2002 Saint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262026505Author Djurdja BartlettFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1588gDimensions(mm) 286mm * 197mm *...

On April 24, 2021, the designer Alber Elbaz passed away due to complications from Covid-19. The artistic director of the House of Lanvin from 2001 to 2016, he was the most consequential figure from the fashion community lost to the pandemic. Love Brings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781856698429Author Mark AtkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576878125Author Jackson BlountFormat HardbackPage Count 1Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

What is the kimono? Everyday garment? Art object? Symbol of Japan? As Terry Satsuki Milhaupt explains in this book, the kimono has served all of these roles, its meaning changing across time and with the perspective of the wearer or viewer. Kimono: A...

In FUCK YEAH MENSWEAR, a pair of fashion-savvy anonymous bloggers share their well-honed fashion sense and mad rhymes with aspiring sartorialists. The layouts make for a visually stunning paperback original: 200 pages of full-colour fashion imagery,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681882611Author David WillsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Blue Streak BooksPublisher Weldon Owen, Incorporated

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071687Author Rodgers NigelFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd