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Versace by Stefano Tonchi
RRP: £75.00£63.94Versace-a name that epitomizes Italian opulence, bold sexiness, and a flair for the extravagant-holds its place firmly in the fashion world as a legendary and iconic luxury brand. Taking over the creative artistic direction of the family-run fashion... -
Twentieth Century Textiles Francesca Galloway 9781851495504
RRP: £35.00£24.03Presents a selection of more than 100 furnishing textiles and designs that range from a spectacular printed hanging designed by the Wiener Werkstatte artist, Dagobert Peche, between 1911 and 1918, to a series of dramatic woven, silk and metal wall... -
Weavings of Nomads in Iran:: Warp-faced Bands and Related Textiles by Fred Mushkat
RRP: £70.00£62.12There is a rich tradition of hand-woven bands made by the nomadic pastoralists of Iran. They have a large and detailed design vocabulary, and were executed using weaving skills that were not exceeded by any other weaving tradition. No study of nomadic... -
Metamorfx: Art of Constantine Sekeris by Constantine Sekeris 9781781162927
£9.23Taking you behind the scenes of the special effects world, the author guides readers through the world of creature and character design. Suitable for special effects experts and novices alike, he helps you learn the secrets behind designing creatures and... -
The Fundamentals of Digital Fashion Marketing by Clare Harris
RRP: £29.99£28.62The Fundamentals of Digital Fashion Marketing introduces and explores contemporary digital marketing practices within the fashion industry. Clare Harris clearly explains key digital marketing strategies and examines and illustrates their role in fashion... -
Machine Stitch Perspectives by Alice Kettle 9781350100923
£68.59Machine Embroidery is hugely exciting in terms of its potential as a creative medium and is part of a flourishing creative industry both in design and production. MMU hosts a specialist embroidery department, which has been instrumental in artistic... -
Tomorrow's Heirlooms: Womens Fashions of the 60s and 70s by Trina Robbins 9780764303548
RRP: £27.99£18.88Polyester's popularity in the 1960s and 1970s ushered in distinctive new styles in colorful print designs. Enthusiastic descriptions are given for hundreds of cheerful dresses, jumpsuits, bellbottoms, hotpants, and disco clothes. The social issues of the... -
Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads: Journeys between East and West, Past and Present by Sarah E. Braddock Clarke
RRP: £33.99£30.86With over 200 color illustrations, Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads examines in detail the eclectic iconography of the Byzantine period and its impact on design and creativity today. Through an examination of the extraordinary variety of designs in these... -
Looking at Textiles - A Guide to Technical Terms by Elena Phipps 9781606060803
RRP: £16.99£14.61This is a concise yet detailed guide to the fundamental terms, materials, and techniques used to create textiles. Textiles have been made and used by every culture throughout history. However diverse - whether an Egyptian mummy wrapping, a Turkish... -
Sewing Techniques: An Introduction to Construction Skills Within the Design Process by Jennifer Prendergast 9781350411579
£30.84Sewing techniques are sometimes overlooked in the design process but acquiring these skills can be transformational. The ability to turn a two-dimensional design into its three-dimensional realization comes from having mastered basic sewing techniques... -
Fashionability: Abraham Moon and the Creation of British Cloth for the Global Market by Regina Lee Blaszczyk
RRP: £30.00£22.71Fashion 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... -
It’s All About Animal Print by Suzanne Middlemass 9783961715084
RRP: £25.00£16.78As a street style and backstage photographer, Suzanne Middlemass can always be found close to the catwalks of this world. Fans admire her unusual photographs in fashion and lifestyle magazines such as VOGUE, Elle, GQ and Grazia. Now Middlemass has... -
Making Hair Jewels & Accessories by Gabrielle Byrne 9780713687392 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.65Twenty fashionable hair-accessory designs, easy to make from cheap and accessible components, clearly laid out in an instructive and attractive design. Each project is set out in a simple and straightforward way, starting with an image of the finished... -
Digital Jacquard Design by Julie Holyoke
£60.41For centuries, the creation of Jacquard cloth required the collaborative efforts of teams of designers and technicians working on vastly complex equipment. In the past three decades, developments in loom technology and CAD systems have made it possible... -
kate spade new york: It's So You!: The Joy of Personal Style by kate spade new york 9781419760563
RRP: £26.00£18.72From the iconic fashion brand kate spade new york comes a highly anticipated book on stylekate spade new york is back as THE authority on fashion, taking the kate spade woman through the brand's years of style, taste, and fun in this volume. Covering... -
A Textile Traveler's Guide to Peru & Bolivia by Cynthia LeCount Samake
RRP: £22.99£15.38A Textile Traveler's Guide to Peru and Bolivia draws on author Cynthia Samake's decades of independent travel in Peru and Bolivia. Her experiences roaming the remote hillsides and bustling cities of both countries combined with her academic research in... -
Dressing Dangerously: Dysfunctional Fashion in Film by Jonathan Faiers
RRP: £47.50£42.66A thought-provoking examination of the challenging and sometimes sinister roles that fashion has played in the history of cinema When Marlene Dietrich makes her entrance in Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright, the Dior dress she wears immediately draws the... -
Trading Textiles: Fifty Years of Advertising for Fibres and Fabrics. 1920-1970 by Ruth Artmonsky
RRP: £10.00£7.16The focus of the plethora of books on British textiles has largely been on their design and designers; relatively little has been written on the marketing of the products. Trading Textiles whilst making reference to the many avenues and methods for... -
Dior Scarves. Fashion Stories. by Maria Luisa Frisa 9780500297711
RRP: £75.00£49.52A sumptuous treasury of Dior scarves. Plain and elaborate, commonplace and precious, fashionable and timeless, masculine and feminine: Dior's silk scarves form a unique visual repertoire and cover a gamut of palettes, themes and styles. The epitome of... -
Fashion's Double by Adam Geczy
£31.95Mere clothing is transformed into desirable fashion by the way it is represented in imagery. Fashion's Double examines how meanings are projected onto garments through their representation, whether in painting, photography, cinema or online fashion film,... -
Crafting Textiles in the Digital Age by Nithikul Nimkulrat
£29.73In an era of increasingly available digital resources, many textile designers and makers find themselves at an interesting juncture between traditional craft processes and newer digital technologies. Highly specialized craft/design practitioners may now... -
The Lifethread: Paracas Textiles and Culture by Kerstin Paradis
RRP: £60.00£41.54This book documents a collection of approximately 90 Paracas textiles. The collection consists of cloaks, ponchos, tunics, as well as some smaller fragments such as ribbons. Originally housed at the Ethnographic Museum in Gothenburg, Sweden, the objects... -
fashionable clothing from the sears catalogs: Mid 1930s by Tammy Ward
RRP: £27.99£18.88Mid-1930s clothing for men, women, and children are presented in 300 color photographs from the Sears catalogs. See the popular styles of dresses, suits, coats, and sleepwear; as well as hats, shoes, and undergarments. Printed and solid fabrics are shown... -
Creative Recycling in Embroidery by Val Holmes
RRP: £14.99£11.34Recycling is one of the hottest new trends in embroidery, and this is the first book to cover it. Embroiderers recycle for many different reasons: to conserve old pieces of ephemera for the future, to give their work a personal touch, to convey meaning,... -
Fashionable Clothing from the Sears Catalogs: Mid 1950s by Tina Skinner
RRP: £27.99£18.88Enter an ultra-patriotic era of "military mood" fashions, replete in red, white, and blue. One in a series of books from Schiffer Publishing documenting fashion trends in America, this is an invaluable resource for fashion designers looking to revive and... -
The Fundamentals of Fashion Filmmaking by Nilgin Yusuf 9781474242370
RRP: £28.99£24.64Over the last decade fashion film's presence has become ubiquitous. From the retail environments where fashion film is projected onto windows and buildings, to the online arenas of fashion brands and labels through to art gallery installations, fashion... -
The Story of Costume by John Peacock 9780500513095 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.95£2.65This beautifully illustrated, full-colour history of costume has been produced by bestselling author John Peacock especially for children.With over 320 hand-drawn illustrations, and clearly written descriptions on every page, the book offers a broad... -
The Story of Costume by John Peacock
RRP: £12.95£8.96This beautifully illustrated, full-colour history of costume has been produced by bestselling author John Peacock especially for children.With over 320 hand-drawn illustrations, and clearly written descriptions on every page, the book offers a broad... -
Authentic American Indian Beadwork and How to Do it by Pamela Stanley-Millner
£6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486247397Author Pamela Stanley-MillnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Textiles, Community and Controversy: The Knitting Map by Jools Gilson
£30.14Taking a major textile artwork, The Knitting Map, as a central case study, this book interrogates the social, philosophical and critical issues surrounding contemporary textile art today. It explores gestures of community and controversy manifest in... -
FashionEast: The Spectre that Haunted Socialism by Djurdja Bartlett 9780262026505
RRP: £27.00£24.50Apologies 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 *... -
Heavenly Soles: Extraordinary 20th Century Shoes by Mary Trasko 9781558593244 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99£4.42They might seem like mundane necessities, down there shuffling around in the dust. But as virtually every woman and a great many men know, shoes have long inspired imaginative caprice and private longing on an extravagant scale. Some of the great... -
Threads: Material, Myths & Symbols by Maria Spitz 9783753304953
RRP: £35.00£22.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753304953Author Maria SpitzFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther... -
Art X Fashion: Fashion Inspired by Art by Nancy Hall-Duncan
RRP: £32.50£28.57Long before 'collabs' became a buzzword, artists influenced every aspect of the fashion world. This approachable collection compares fashion and art side-by-side to highlight a variety of relationships: inspiration, collaboration, and artists working to... -
Landscape in Contemporary Quilts: Design and Technique by Ineke Berlyn 9780713489743 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.71Landscape is a theme being explored more and more in contemporary quiltmaking. Recent exhibitions have showcased breathtaking quilts depicting subjects such as undulating patterns of a furrowed field, the sun setting over a distant horizon, or rolling... -
Ackermann's Costumes of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Nicholas Jackson 9780992874049
£26.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992874049Author Nicholas JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint Burgon SocietyPublisher Burgon SocietyWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 191mm... -
Developing a Fashion Collection by Elinor Renfrew 9782940496730 [USED COPY]
RRP: £24.99£3.70Fully updated with new interviews and inspiring images, the 2nd edition of Developing a Fashion Collection covers everything the fashion student needs to know before designing their own collections. Developing a Fashion Collection focuses on the process... -
Embroidery Designs for Fashion and Furnishings: From the Victoria and Albert Museum by Moira Thunder 9781851778140 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99£1.25This striking publication presents highlights from the V&A's outstanding collection of embroidery designs for fashion, accessories and home furnishings. A practical, inspirational resource for textile historians, designers and embroiderers, Embroidery... -
Fusing Fabric: Creative Cutting, Bonding and Mark-Making with the Soldering Iron by Margaret Beal 9780713490688 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£7.44NEW IN PAPERBACK The fine-tipped soldering iron is one of the most creative tools available to textile artists and embroiderers today. Acclaimed embroiderer Margaret Beal is a pioneer of these techniques and makes the processes simple, safe and... -
Jean Moss Designer Knits by BOOKS 9780025875555 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99£2.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780025875555Author BOOKSFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.Publisher John Wiley & Sons IncWeight(grams) 997g