Fashion Books
Christian Dior
Published 50 years after Christian Dior's "New Look" of 1947, and accompanying an exhibition at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this book presents a chronology of Dior's creations.
From Production to Consumption: The Cultural Industry of Fashion
From Production to Consumption: The Cultural Industry of Fashion aims to explore fashion as a meeting point between producers and consumers as well as processes and people whose work connects the two dimensions, making the materiality of clothes a doorway to join the immaterial horizons of fashion.
How to Read Fashion
This stylishly illustrated guide parses the visual vocabulary to understand, investigate, and interpret seminal fashions and styles. The perfect companion for fashionistas and anyone interested in a better understanding of how fashions and styles evolve, this is the first book of its kind aimed at a general audience.
New Icons of Fashion Illustration
Fashion illustration is and always has been about far more than pretty drawings of pretty dresses. This lavish celebration of today's leading artists in the field showcases the timeless craft and amazing diversity that characterize the genre.
Fashion Scandinavia: Contemporary Cool
Heralding a new movement in fashion, this book features over fifty notable designers from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland.
Fashion Entrepreneur: Starting Your Own Fashion Business
Fashion Entrepreneur: Starting Your Own Fashion Business is essential reading for those planning to set up and run a successful business within the fashion and creative industries.
Fashion Artist: Drawing Techniques to Portfolio Presentation
Fashion Artist: Drawing Techniques to Portfolio Presentation takes you through the fashion drawing and design process, introducing you to the essential fashion drawing and fashion illustration techniques and skills to help you to create striking fashion designs, fashion illustrations, flats, fashion presentations and your fashion portfolio.
Becoming a Fashion Designer
The complete guide to the fashion industry, featuring interviews with top designers who explain the intricacies of the world of fashion design.
Fashion A to Z: An Illustrated Dictionary
Fashion A to Z: An Illustrated Dictionary contains over 2,000 entries, arranged alphabetically. Illustrated by renowned fashion illustrator and designer Zakee Shariff, this unique fashion dictionary is quirky and fun, but provides invaluable definitions of all the words a fashion and textile student needs to know.
Knitwear Fashion Design
Whether handmade or industrially-produced, deconstructive or avant-garde, knitwear has become a staple collection piece every season and its resurgence as a key fashion item has rekindled a trend and a keen interest in this once very traditional craft. This book aims to help fashion students as well as professionals understand the basic elements in knitwear and learn how illustrate them.
Fashion Design: A Technical Foundation
Fashion Design: A Technical Foundation provides detailed construction information for garment blocks that are used within fashion design. This book is divided into twenty-one chapters of garment blocks, components and finishing used in garment construction.
80s Fashion: From Club to Catwalk
In 80s Fashion, the V&A explores one of the most diverse and exciting periods in fashion history, showcasing the work of some of the decade's leading designers, including Vivienne Westwood, Fiorucci, Leigh Bowery, Bodymap, Rifat Ozbek, and many others. Exploring the decade's extraordinarily creative exchange between fashion and music, this extensively illustrated book shows how fashions seen on trendsetters in the clubs of the period were interpreted for a wider audience through the striking photography and innovative graphic design of key magazines such as The Face and i-D.
Fashion Eyewear Design
Fashion Eyewear Design teaches how to design unique eyewear collections. Featuring hundreds of illustrations, innovative study guides and insightful, practical information, this book is an invaluable resource for students, garment designers, technical designers, and anyone interested in the creative and business aspects of the fashion industry.
Decades of Fashion
Decades of Fashion captures the world of fashion in hundreds of photographs drawn both from the fashion runways and from everyday life.
Kylie Fashion
In Kylie Fashion, the star herself presents the first ever showcase of her phenomenal fashion history with the most iconic designers in the world. This feast of fashion includes an Introduction by the legendary Jean-Paul Gaultier and commentary from the likes of Dolce & Gabbana and Karl Lagerfeld.
Fetishism in Fashion
Internationally renowned trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort delves into the fetishistic world of contemporary fashion to reveal a daring and instinctive future for style and culture.
Fashion Designer's Resource Book
The Fashion Designer's Resource Book is a fashion resource and lifestyle book that provides a comprehensive overview of the fashion industry as a business, combined with an insider's understanding of the creative process and the lifestyle of a fashion entrepreneur. The author, award-winning designer Samata Angel, explains how to take steps towards a fulfilling career - achieving creative, business and emotional balance - in this competitive and complex industry.
Fashion Design, Referenced
Fashion Design, Referenced is a comprehensive guide through the art and industry of fashion design, richly illustrated with over 1,000 photographs and drawings. Within the framework of four central categories, the book examines the many interwoven elements that form the tapestry of fashion.
Fashion Designers A-Z
From Azzedine Alaia, Cristobal Balenciaga, and Coco Chanel, to Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, and Vivienne Westwood, a century's worth of fashion greats from the permanent collection of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology are celebrated in this limited-edition volume. Photographs of over 500 garments selected from the Museum's permanent collection illuminate each of the featured designers, while texts by the curators explain why each designer is important in fashion history and what is special about the individual pieces featured.
Giorgio Armani: Empire of the Senses
Exploring 35 years of creative output, this richly illustrated book offers an unprecedented look into Giorgio Armani s unique aesthetic, corporate and cultural strategies.
Hollywood Before Glamour: Fashion in American Silent Film
This exploration of fashion in American silent film offers fresh perspectives on the era preceding the studio system, and the evolution of Hollywood's distinctive brand of glamour.
Fashion Icons
In Fashion Icons, Leen Demeester explores fashion trends throughout the centuries. She traces the origins of items of clothing such as the corset, the bra, the dress, the mini-skirt, trousers, accessories and high heels.
The World of Fashion
The World of Fashion is the essential resource for students seeking to understand the fashion industry. Starting with an introduction to fashion's history and its evolving role within the global marketplace, this book provides in-depth coverage of the design, manufacturing and merchandising segments of the fashion industry.
The Book of Fashion Accessories
The Book of Fashion Accessories presents a gallery of innovative photographs of contemporary fashion accessories in various chapters: shoes, bags, jewellery, watches, sunglasses, hats, shawls, gloves, etc, and a text which teaches you how to play with accessories and combine them to create different styles inspired by a particular era, colour or urban trend.
Fashion and Orientalism
Orientalism is a central factor within the fashion system, both subtle and overt. In this timely and groundbreaking book, the author shows the extent of the influence that the Orient had, and continues to have, on fashion.
Wartime Fashion
A comprehensive analysis of Second World War dress practice and appearance, this study places dress at the forefront of a complex series of cultural chain reactions. As lives were changed by the conditions of war, dress continued to reflect important visual narratives regarding class, gender and taste that would impact significantly on public consciousness of equality, fairness and morale. Using new archival and primary source evidence, Wartime Fashion clarifies how and why clothing was rationed, and repositions style and design during the war in relation to past expectations and ideas about clothes and fabrics.
Vernier: Fashion, Femininity and Form
Featuring more than one hundred of Vernier's own favorite photographs drawn from Vogue's extensive photo archive, this lavishly illustrated volume reveals remarkable innovation in the use of props, backdrops, and location.
Fashion and Cultural Studies
Bridging theory and practice, this accessible text provides an introduction to fashion from both cultural studies and fashion studies perspectives, and addresses the growing interaction between the two fields.
Fantastic Fashion
Fantastic Fashion takes a look at some of the most bizarrely beautiful and outlandish trends in clothing and ornament, from the medieval steeple headdress and the eighteenth-century dandies of the Macaroni Club, to the dangeroulsly tight corsets of the 19th century and the futuristic space-age look of the 1960s.
In Vogue
In Vogue is a fascinating look at the history of the world's most influential magazine. The complete compendium is illustrated with hundreds of covers and archival interiors of past Vogue editions, featuring the work of some of the twentieth century's most respected artists, cover illustrators, and photographers.