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Shocking LIfe: The Autobiography of Elsa Schiaparelli Elsa Schiaparelli 9781838510626
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $27.79'I merely know Schiap by hearsay. I have only seen her in a mirror. She is, for me a kind of fifth dimension.' - Elsa Schiaparelli Elsa Schiaparelli is one of the most celebrated fashion designers of... -
Shocking Life by Elsa Schiaparelli
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) was one of the leading fashion designers of the 1920s and 1930s with a flair for the unusual. The first to use shoulder pads, animal print and the inventor of shocking... -
Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography by Meryle Secrest
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66'A wonderful insight into a life that history hasn't remembered as well as it should have.' - VogueOne of the most extraordinary fashion designers of the twentieth century, Elsa Schiaparelli was an... -
Frocking Life: Searching for Elsa Schiaparelli by BillyBoy 9780847843862
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $40.21The owner of the largest collection of Elsa Schiaparelli garments in the world writes about his lifelong love affair with the work-and the entire persona-of the iconic designer. At age fourteen,... -
The Little Guide to Schiaparelli by OH 9781035433575
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $11.08The Schiaparelli brand is nothing short of iconic. The Shocking Pink signature says it all: flamboyant yet simple, luxurious but humorous, and always incredibly stylish.The brand blurs the lines... -
Fashion Sourcebook 1920s by Charlotte Fiell
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $30.91'There isn't a more comprehensive source to Twenties fashion that I can think of ... An absolute must for anyone interested in Twenties fashion or art deco' Style High Club'A source of all the... -
Timeless Tyrolean Knitwear: Recreating the Vintage Style by Linda Ivell 9780719841149
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $35.59The passion for Tyrolean-style knitwear has endured for nearly one hundred years and it is still as popular today as when it first appeared in the early 1930s. Timeless Tyrolean Knitwear outlines the... -
The Fabulous Frances Farquharson: The Colourful Life of an American in the Highlands by Caroline Young 9781803992532
Booksplease Price: $46.49Born in 1902 in Seattle, Washington, Frances Lovell Oldham left her hometown in her early twenties to pursue a journalism career in Europe. At a time when women rarely found independent success,... -
Coco Chanel: Pearls, Perfume, and the Little Black Dress by Susan Goldman Rubin
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.93Award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin introduces readers to the most well-known fashion designer in the world, Coco Chanel. Beginning with the difficult years Chanel spent in an orphanage, Goldman... -
Cosmopolitanism and Women's Fashion in Ghana: History, Artistry and Nationalist Inspirations Christopher L. Richards (City University of New York, USA) 9780367708801
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, this book delves into the rich world of Ghanaian fashion, demonstrating how, over time, local dress styles and materials have been fused with... -
Little Book of Milan Style: The Fashion History of the Iconic City by Laia Farran Graves 9781802797831
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $15.85Synonymous with tradition, innovation and sophistication, and revered the world over, Milan is the style capital of the world. From Valentino to Versace, alla moda to artisan, and from Sophia Loren... -
Fashion Entrepreneurship: The Creation of the Global Fashion Business by Neri Karra
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.95Fashion generates over a trillion dollars in sales annually and has the priceless ability to beguile its customers around the world. Fashion Entrepreneurship: The Creation of the Global Fashion... -
Women's Work: From feminine arts to feminist art Ferren Gipson 9780711264656
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $29.25This powerful and insightful work offers a bold celebration of the innovative, brilliant artists reclaiming the idea of 'women's work'. In the history of western art, decorative and applied arts -... -
Hat Book by Caroline Kuhtz 9781906506209
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Hats can be stylish and outlandish, formal and conservative; they can denote status and authority or simply offer protection against the elements; they can hide the wearer or draw full attention to... -
Feminist Review: Issue 38 by The Feminist Review Collective
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $71.49This issue of Feminist Review concentrates on cultural studies: the modernist style of Susan Sontag, fashion and representation, and a very witty look at lesbian photographs.Book InformationISBN... -
Maison Lesage: Haute Couture Embroidery by Patrick Mauries
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $73.09The most famous embroidery house in the world, Maison Lesage has collaborated with the greatest names in the history of fashion, from Madeleine Vionnet, Elsa Schiaparelli, Cristobal Balenciaga and... -
Fashion Cultures Revisited: Theories, Explorations and Analysis by Stella Bruzzi
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.87Following on from the ground-breaking collection Fashion Cultures, this second anthology, Fashion Cultures Revisited, contains 26 newly commissioned chapters exploring fashion culture from the start... -
1,000 Hats Norma Shephard 9780764324031
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $59.63Over 1,240 beautiful museum quality hats reveal the milliner's ingenuity from the 1790s to the 1970s. Among the styles displayed are ascots, bourrelets, bigonnets, chapeaux rouges, nurses' hats,... -
The Master of Us All Mary Blume 9780374534387
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.32When Cristobal Balenciaga died in 1972, the news hit the front page of The New York Times. One of the most innovative and admired figures in the history of haute couture, Balenciaga was, as Elsa... -
Little Book of Schiaparelli: The Story of the Iconic Fashion House by 9781787398283
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.27Little Book of Schiaparelli chronicles the work of one of history's most influential and eccentric couturiers. Endowed with a strikingly imaginative and experimental approach to fashion, Elsa... -
Vintage Handbags: Collecting and wearing designer classics Marnie Fogg 9781802790955
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $13.79Foreword by Anya Hindmarch Decade by decade, the lavishly illustrated Vintage Handbags recounts over 100 years of handbag history, from Elsa Schiaparelli's mesh bags for Whiting & Davis in the 1920s... -
Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images by Terry Barrett
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $64.72Emphasizing the understanding of images and their influences on how they affect our attitudes, beliefs, and actions, this fully updated sixth edition offers consequential ways of looking at images... -
Jewels of Passion: Costume Jewelry Masterpieces by Sherri R. Duncan
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $55.91This stunning new book showcases fantastic costume jewelry from 53 top designers of the 20th century. Examples from Christian Dior, Miriam Haskell, Kenneth Jay Lane, Elsa Schiaparelli, Stanley... -
Scarves by Nicky Albrechtsen
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $44.17Indispensable accessories and sought-after collectors' items, scarves were an important innovation in 20th-century fashion. From Art Deco through 1950s Hollywood, the Swinging Sixties and beyond,... -
Psychoanalysis, Intersubjective Writing, and a Postmaterialist Model of Mind: I Woke Up Dead by Dan Gilhooley
RRP: $74.08Booksplease Price: $70.75In this in-depth and unique collaboration between a patient and his psychoanalyst, Psychoanalysis, Intersubjective Writing, and a Postmaterialist Model of Mind: I Woke Up Dead examines the... -
Intersections: Women Artists/Surrealism/Modernism by Patricia Allmer
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $127.55Featuring new essays by established and emerging scholars, Intersections: Women artists/surrealism/modernism redefines conventional surrealist and modernist canons by focusing critical attention on... -
Paul Poiret: Fashion is a Feast Marie-Sophie Carron de la Carrière 9780500030813
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $65.54An immersion into audacious fashion designer Paul Poiret's creative universe, bringing together works from his entire career. Paul Poiret (1879-1944) is widely credited with bringing fashion into... -
Biography, Identity and the Modern Interior Anne Massey 9781138548275
RRP: $101.38Booksplease Price: $95.63Through a series of case studies from the mid-eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, this collection of essays considers the historical insights that ethno/auto/biographical... -
Fashion Icons: A Celebration of Fashion's Legendary Designers by David Lee Csicsko 9781951963156
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $25.70Fashion Icons celebrates the origins and contributions of some of the world's most remarkable and gifted fashion designers throughout history Bold, whimsical illustrations by David Lee Csicsko along... -
Man Ray: The Paris Years Michael R. Taylor 9780300260847
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $52.03A close look at Man Ray's interwar portraiture, as well as the friendships between the photographer and his subjects: the international avant garde in Paris Shortly after his arrival in Paris in July... -
Historical Wig Styling: Victorian to the Present Allison Lowery (Wig and Makeup Specialist, Austin Performing Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA) 9781138391567
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $75.64Historical Wig Styling: Victorian to the Present, 2nd edition, is a guide to creating beautiful, historically accurate hairstyles for theatrical productions and events. This volume covers hairstyles... -
Women Dressing Women: A Lineage of Female Fashion Design by Mellissa Huber 9781588397201
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $59.94This survey of women-led fashion design centered around the twentieth and twenty-first centuries emphasizes the creative agency and artistic legacy of female creators Exploring the enduring impact of... -
Eudora Welty and Surrealism by Stephen M. Fuller 9781617036736
Booksplease Price: $172.77Eudora Welty and Surrealism surveys Welty's fiction during the most productive period of her long writing life. The study shows how the 1930s witnessed surrealism's arrival in the United States... -
The Fashion Classics: A Celebration of the Most Iconic, Influential and Innovative Garments and Accessories in Modern Fashion History by Clare Faulkner 9781837998135
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.85Encompassing some of the most influential pieces in fashion, this ultimate illustrated collection brings together the beloved staples that have stood the test of timeThe Fashion Classics is your... -
Art X Fashion: Fashion Inspired by Art by Nancy Hall-Duncan
RRP: $63.38Booksplease Price: $50.13Long 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... -
It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear 9780062447623
Booksplease Price: $28.92* 4 Starred Reviews ** An Indie Next List Pick *"Playful, bold, and, much like its subject, full of grace." -Jillian Tamaki, Caldecott Honor winner for This One Summer "It Began with a Page tells... -
India in Fashion: The Impact of Indian Dress and Textiles on the Fashionable Imagination by Hamish Bowles
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $67.72This intoxicating and visually rich volume with texts by experts from India, Europe, and North America is published to accompany a major exhibition that celebrates the long historical contributions... -
An Eye for Couture: A collector's exploration of 20th century fashion Caroline Evans 9783791377636
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $105.24In this stunning book, one of the world's leading art dealers reveals her passion project-collecting French haute couture from the twentieth century and telling the stories of the women who wore them... -
Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s Alison McDonald 9780876333068
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $35.10Tracing the surge in creativity and transformations in culture and the arts during one of history's most tumultuous decades Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s looks at the complex shifts in... -
How They Decorated by P. Gaye Tapp 9780847847419
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $65.01Gloria Vanderbilt cleverly noted, Decorating is autobiography. Reflecting that truism, the interiors in this book capture the individual approaches of these icons of style: Bunny Mellon s spare...