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Mary Quant: My Autobiography Mary Quant 9781472269386
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50MARY QUANT IS FASHION.Not many names epitomise an era, but Mary Quant is one such name. Her life, her ideas and her style touched everyone. Most people connect Mary with one thing - the mini skirt -... -
Quant by Quant by Mary Quant
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The autobiography of Mary Quant-the inventor of the miniskirt-was originally published in 1966 at the height of Swinging London. After opening her groundbreaking boutique Bazaar on London's King's... -
Mary Quant by Jenny Lister
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.85Dame Mary Quant is a fashion icon. The first focused study of her career, this book shows how she revolutionized fashion, harnessing youth, streetstyle and mass production to create a new look for... -
Mary Quant - A Compact Biography by John Brown 9798223463634
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223463634Author John BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Rabbit PublishingPublisher Rabbit... -
Biba: The Fashion Brand That Defined A Generation Barbara Hulanicki 9780300279023
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £17.67Biba dominated London fashion from the mid-1960s, defining the dress and outlook of a generation. Celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the opening of the first Biba boutique, this book takes a... -
MOD: From Bebop to Britpop, Britain's Biggest Youth Movement by Richard Weight
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.94Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited 'faces'. The Italianistas. The scooter-riding, all-night-dancing instigators of what became, from its myriad sources, a very British phenomenon.Mod began life... -
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A History of Britain in 21 Women: A Personal Selection by Jenni Murray 9781780749907 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £3.26From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 21 Women They were famous queens, unrecognised visionaries, great artists and trailblazing politicians. They all pushed back boundaries and... -
A History of Britain in 21 Women: A Personal Selection Jenni Murray 9781786071583
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £5.83From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 21 Women They were famous queens, unrecognised visionaries, great artists and trailblazing politicians. They all pushed back boundaries and... -
A Cultural History of Western Fashion: From Haute Couture to Virtual Couture by Professor Bonnie English
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £46.29Just as the clothes we wear can communicate our personality and how we want to be perceived, so fashion can reflect the politics and preoccupations of the society that produced it. A Cultural... -
A Cultural History of Western Fashion: From Haute Couture to Virtual Couture Professor Bonnie English (Late of Griffith University, Australia) 9781350150898
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £22.55Just as the clothes we wear can communicate our personality and how we want to be perceived, so fashion can reflect the politics and preoccupations of the society that produced it. A Cultural... -
Conran/Quant: Swinging London - A Lifestyle Revolution by Geoffrey Rayner
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £19.81"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... -
Shoes!: A Foray into Fabulous Footwear Daisy Wynter 9781800660571
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38From the sandals of Ancient Rome to the towering heels of Vivienne Westwood; a phenomenal frolic through footwear fashion. "They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they... -
The Great Fashion Designers: From Chanel to McQueen, the names that made fashion history Brenda Polan 9781350504349
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £32.95Over the course of the last 180 years, designers have transformed fashion from an elite craft into a cornerstone of global popular culture.This brilliantly written classic guide to the lives and... -
Little Book of London Style: The fashion story of the iconic city by Karen Homer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26An inspiration to countless designers and the stomping ground of fashion's in-crowd, London is the capital of subculture.From Mary Quant to Alexander McQueen, from punks to goths, and from Twiggy to... -
Escaping the Dark Shadow by Keith Perkins 9781915494764
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62'Escaping the Dark Shadow' is an unforgettable memoir that takes the reader on an exciting, highly personal, emotional, and informative journey from the 1950s to the present. It is the true story of... -
The Decision by Penny Vincenzi
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.94'She is such a great seductress that you won't want to take a break, even to fill the kettle' Sunday Express' It's the Sixties - girls are in miniskirts, King's Road and Carnaby Street are where it's... -
The 50 Most Influential Britons of the Past 100 Years Peter Pugh 9781785780349
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Peter Pugh presents his selection of - not the best, fastest, most successful or richest - but the 50 most influential British men and women of the modern world - for good or ill. Pugh discusses... -
Mod New York: Fashion Takes a Trip by Phyllis Magidson
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £23.08An overview of the turbulent 1960s and 1970s through the lens of fashion, a period when demure silhouettes and pastels exploded into bold prints and tie-dyed psychedelic chaos and ultimately resolved... -
London. In Fashion Pierre Toromanoff 9781788843553
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £33.55London is the most diverse of all the great fashion megacities, drawing from a vast palette of cultures, artistic disciplines and historical references to produce some of the world's best loved and... -
Woman's Hour: Daily Meditations from Wise, Witty and Wonderful Women 9781785945069
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.37For 75 years, Woman's Hour has brought us the most iconic and inspirational women from all over the world, delving into their lives and opinions, desires and lessons to others. Now, their wise words... -
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The Decision by Penny Vincenzi 9780755379538 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.40'She is such a great seductress that you won't want to take a break, even to fill the kettle' Sunday Express' It's the Sixties - girls are in miniskirts, King's Road and Carnaby Street are where it's... -
Terence: The Man Who Invented Design by Roger Mavity
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £7.42'A terrific read, bubbling with anecdotes and insight' Daily Mail, 2021's best biographies'Bayley, the author of books on style, design and taste, tells the Habitat story with his customary... -
Foale and Tuffin: the Sixties. a Decade in Fashion by Iain Webb 9781851496068
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.12"I love the Foale and Tuffin book. The layout and graphics are terrific and it's a joy to read. The whole book is so well put together." Mary Quant "I wish all fashion books could be as... -
Terence: The Man Who Invented Design Roger Mavity 9781408715215
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Bayley, the author of books on style, design and taste, tells the Habitat story with his customary polycultural panache . . . [Mavity is] good at conveying the experience of being in a room with... -
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A History of Britain in 21 Women: A Personal Selection by Jenni Murray 9781786071583 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.97The bestselling history of Britain, told through twenty-one women whose lives enthral and beguile, intrigue and inspire 'Celebrates the defiant spirit of Britain's groundbreaking heroines..... -
A Matter of Style: Intimate Portraits of 10 Women Who Changed Fashion Paola Saltari 9788854413078
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £18.18From Coco Chanel and Grace Kelly to Twiggy and Lady Diana, here are ten women who changed 20th-century fashion forever! Coco Chanel once proclaimed, "I don't do fashion, I am fashion," and in one... -
V&A Gallery of Fashion: Revised Edition by Claire Wilcox
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.05Spanning four centuries, the V&A's Fashion Collection is the most comprehensive in the world, housing unrivaled collections of dress,accessories, shoes and hats from the 17th century to the present... -
Scarves by Nicky Albrechtsen
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.65Indispensable 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,... -
Chemical Principles of Textile Conservation by Agnes Timar-Balazsy 9780367606381
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.74'Chemical Principles of Textile Conservation' provides must-have knowledge for conservators who do not always have a scientific background. This vital book brings together from many sources the... -
Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher by Dr John Davis
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.76A kaleidoscopic history of how the 1960s and 1970s changed London foreverWaterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and... -
Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher by John Davis 9780691223797
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.55A kaleidoscopic history of how the 1960s and 1970s changed London foreverWaterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and... -
20th-Century Fashion in Detail by Claire Wilcox
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.12Revealing the elaborate embroidery, intricate pleats and daring cuts that make up some of the 20th century's most beautiful garments, this book explores the specific techniques used by couturiers as... -
Vidal Sassoon: How One Man Changed the World with a Pair of Scissors by Vidal Sassoon
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.73A captivating look at the career of social and style revolutionary Vidal Sassoon. A visionary hairstylist who became a household name, Vidal Sassoon was an instrument of change during the cultural... -
1964: The Year the Swinging Sixties Began by Christopher Sandford 9781803991238
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.77Step back in time to 1964, a year of cultural upheaval and political transformation. From the rise of the Civil Rights movement in the United States to the global phenomenon of Beatlemania, this was... -
Mr & Mrs Clark: Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell. Fashion and print 1965–1974 by Federico Poletti
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £26.40This book pays homage to an iconic fashion duo, Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell, two English creatives whose short but very intense artistic and personal partnership gave rise to an unmistakable style... -
Terence Donovan: One Hundred Faces by Diana Donovan
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Following on from Terence Donovan: 100 Fashion Photos, this new compact edition of collected photographs features over 100 of Terence Donovan's best portraits.Terence Donovan (1936-1996) was one of... -
Chelsea in 50 Buildings Lucy McMurdo 9781398120914
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Chelsea has always been a district beloved by the influential and wealthy. Initially a small riverside village that centred around Chelsea Old Church, from the late seventeenth century Chelsea... -
1963: The Year of the Revolution: How Youth Changed the World with Music, Art, and Fashion by Ariel Leve 9780062120458
Booksplease Price: £12.35Ariel Leve and Robin Morgan's oral history 1963: The Year of the Revolution is the first book to recount the kinetic story of the twelve months that witnessed a demographic power shift-the rise of... -
Vidal: The Autobiography by Vidal Sassoon 9781509822539
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.99Vidal Sassoon's extraordinary life has taken him from an impoverished East End childhood to global fame. The father of modern hairdressing, his slick sharp cutting took the fashion world by storm and... -
White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed...