Fashion Books
The Dress: 100 Iconic Moments in Fashion
The Dress is a collection of the greatest moments in fashion history, beautifully illustrated by Megan Hess.
Fashion and Museums: Theory and Practice
Fashion and Museums: Theory and Practice brings together expert scholars and curators to examine the reasons behind fashion's popularity in the twenty-first century museum and the impact this has had on wider museum practice. Chapters explore the role of fashion in the museum across a range of international case studies including the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Fashion Museum at Bath, ModeMuseum in Antwerp and many more.
Fashion Knitwear
Fashion Knitwear showcases 40 designers around the world, including Missoni, Sibling, and Sonia Rykiel, who use hand and machine knitting, crochet, and macramé, as well as knit fabrics such as jersey, to produce fashion garments.
Fashion Portfolio: Design & Presentation
Fashion Portfolio: Design & Presentation offers a complete guide to putting together an attention-grabbing fashion portfolio. It follows the entire design process, covering research, quick sketches, silhouettes, mood boards, garment details, textiles, fabric manipulation, and draping experimentation.
Fashion Pattern Cutting: Line, Shape and Volume
Designed to boost draping confidence and design creativity, Fashion Pattern Cutting is a step-by-step guide to the pattern cutting process, from finding inspiration for a fashion-forward design through to creating the finished product.
Fabric for Fashion: The Swatch Book
Fabric for Fashion: The Swatch Book provides over 125 swatches of the most recognized and widely used varieties of fabric, including natural fabrics such as cottons, silks, wools, and linens as well as artificial and synthetic fabrics like acetates, lyocells, nylons, and metallics to encourage consideration of not just the aesthetic appeal of various fabrics but also their structure, feel, and weight.
Fabric for Fashion: The Complete Guide
Fashion design is largely determined by how the fabrics work, move, feel and look. The most successful fashion designers are those who understand their materials, who match design skill with technical knowledge. This book bridges that gap by providing a mix of practical information and industry vocabulary, visually examining generic fabric types, discussing the characteristics of fabrics and showing how to exploit materials to push the boundaries of design.
The School of Fashion: 30 Parsons Designers
For over a century, Parsons The New School for Design has been synonymous with the best in American fashion, fostering creative talent and pushing the boundaries of style around the world. The staggering influence of the school's many successful alumni has created a legacy that has only grown in scale and scope over the decades. This richly illustrated volume explores that legacy through the testimony of its brightest stars, with interviews and exclusive archival sketches from Donna Karan, Alexander Wang, Jack McCullough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler, and many others.
Fashionable Selby
Fashionable Selby explores the kaleidoscopic world of fashion, featuring 42 profiles of today's most interesting designers, stylists, haberdashers, models, shoemakers, and more. From the showrooms of Antwerp to the studios of Central St. Martins in London, and from Yves Saint Laurent's eyeglass maker in Paris to a punk knitter in Brooklyn, Selby captures some of fashion's biggest names, rising stars, and best-kept secrets.
Masterclass: Fashion Design
Masterclass: Fashion Design provides an in-depth overview of thirty leading design schools from all over the world that offer a master's degree in fashion design.
YSL: Prêt-à-Porter
Celebrating 40 years of glamorous fashion and design, this officially authorized coloring book and sketchbook is based on the drawings and works of Yves Saint Laurent.
Leather: History, Technique, Projects
Leather: History, Technique, Projects features thirty-five projects including a fancy book cover, a comfortable pair of moccasins, a handbag guaranteed to attract admiring eyes, and many more. Written for artisans and aspiring designers as well as history buffs, this book traces the development of three major tanning methods in ancient and modern cultures, including Egyptian, Moroccan, and North American, and teaches essential skills along the way including dyeing, embossing, and stamping.
Europe: Rising Fashion Designers 2
Europe: Rising Fashion Designers 2 features the current and emerging trends in European fashion. Over 460 images and incisive text illustrate the work of students from premier schools, who present their best work, fashions that will inspire readers, firing their imaginations as they get a glimpse of what the future may bring.
Fashion Design Studio
In Fashion Design Studio, bestselling art instructor Chris Hart gives step-by-step instructions on drawing the fashion figure from many points of view and in varying poses. He explains the tricks of the trade, such as how to "dress" your figure, render color, texture, and print, and create accessories, hairstyles, and makeup looks.
ReFashioned: Cutting-Edge Clothing from Upcycled Materials
ReFashioned features 46 international designers who work with recycled materials and discarded garments, reinvigorating them with new life and value. The result is beautiful and desirable clothing and accessories that also make an important statement to the fashion world about its wasteful and exploitative practices.
Posters: Advertising and Italian Fashion, 1890-1950
This fascinating, abundantly illustrated book delves into the evolution of Italian advertising and fashion posters, showing how social developments and economic expansion were reflected in commercial art.
Bold, Beautiful and Damned
Bold, Beautiful and Damned: The World of 1980s Fashion Illustrator Tony Viramontes brings together an extensive collection of his work, featuring striking images of smoldering and smoky-eyed men and women who vibrate with New Wave energy. Viramontes worked with some of the most celebrated names in fashion including Yves Saint Laurent, Valentino, Chanel, Claude Montana, and Christian Dior.
Luxe Fashion
Written and exhaustively researched by international fashion authority Caroline Cox, Luxe Fashion is a comprehensive guide to iconic heritage fashion brands-categorized by country into clothing, knitwear, footwear, and accessories.
Creative Fashion Design with Illustrator
Creative Fashion Design with Illustrator teaches students, designers, merchandisers, and developers how to master the industry's most established application and deliver stunning designs in the fastest possible way. Starting with the basics, it explains how to create flat drawings of simple items such as vests, skirts, and shirts, then gradually moves on to both semi-flat and dynamic life garment drawing.
The Fashion Book
Spanning almost 200 years, The Fashion Book: New and Expanded Edition, is a massive A-to-Z encyclopedia of fashion packed with hundreds of profiles designers, photographers, style icons, models, and retailers.
Dictionary of Fashion: 4th Edition
Dictionary of Fashion, 4th Edition, builds on the success of previous editions with over 15,000 entries, including apparel, accessories, and their components, historical and textiles terms that relate to contemporary fashion and the language of the fashion industry. Tortora and Keiser organize terms over fifty broad categories that are fully cross-referenced to the alphabetical listing to promote understanding of related terminology.
Fifty Fashion Looks that Changed the 1980's
Fifty Fashion Looks that Changed the 1980's showcases 50 iconic outfits from one of fashion's most influential and exciting decades. Featured designers and style icons will include AnnaWintour, Manolo Blahnik, Annie Lennox, Princess Diana, Bodymap, John Galliano, BOY, Hugo Boss, Giorgio Armani, Jil Sanders, Donna Karan, Madonna, Siouxsie Sioux, Bruce Oldfield, Jasper Conran, Thierry Mugler, Claude Montana and Azzedine Alaia.
Fashion Illustration: A Manual
Fashion Illustration is a handbook for prospective and experienced fashion illustrators and designers. Basic guidance to techniques and design are supplemented through concrete information on the practice and cultural-historical background.
100 Contemporary Fashion Designers
100 Contemporary Fashion Designers, a two-volume compilation, brings together highlights from TASCHEN's Fashion Now! series to create a comprehensive overview of fashion design around the world at the start of the 21st century.
1940's Fashion: The Definitive Sourcebook
From haute couture to ready-to-wear, 1940's Fashion: The Definitive Sourcebook comprehensively documents the season-by-season fashions of the WWII era and the immediate postwar period. The images feature prominent stars of the decade such as Joan Bennett, Veronica Lake and Barbara Stanwyck, and designers including Dior, Lucien Lelong, Balmain, Nina Ricci, and Worth.
Fashion Designers' Sketchbooks 2 2
The second volume of Fashion Designers' Sketchbooks shines a light on the work of a new line-up of major names in the fashion industry. Photographs, sketches, moodboards, lineups, muslins, swatches, and more all feed the creative processes that forge fashion designs, and here they are brought together to reveal how the final collections are conceived and developed.
The Anatomy of Fashion: Why We Dress the Way We Do
The Anatomy of Fashion is a sourcebook by one of the world's leading fashion scholars that seeks nothing less than a thorough analysis of the roots of every aspect of fashion today.
Fashion Details: 4000 Drawings
Fashion Details: 4000 Drawings by Elisabetta Drudi offers an inspirational sourcebook of the drawing techniques for fashion details and contains all that is needed to know on how to make accurate technical drawings of details such as collars, pleats, flounces, gathers, drapes, necklines, and so on with three-thousand original fashion drawings throughout.
Color Me Couture
Color Me Couture is a beautifully illustrated book that turns the last 100 years of high fashion into your own personal design studio. Each spread in the book has an illustration of an elegantly finished garment inspired by fashion's greatest icons-complete with its season, style and design notes-and on the opposite page you get to craft your own gorgeous couture design, inspired by the iconic piece, by completing the drawing with color and accessories.
Haute Couture
This is a survey of the history of haute couture, from the formation of the House of Worth in mid-19th-century Paris to the major designers of the present day. The book focuses on the highly skilled crafts that are essential to the production of haute couture.