Written by two experts in costume from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, it explores movements and innovations in style for both men and women through the work of the most original and influential designers and couturiers. Organized around crucial shifts in style and major world events, the book places exciting, even revolutionary, developments in fashion within their socioeconomic, political, and cultural contexts. International in scope, it encompasses the century's most important designers and metropolitan fashion centers, including developments in accessories, hairstyles, and make-... View More...
From the authors of Gentleman's Guide To Grooming and Style comes this indispensable guide for every fashion aficionado. Topics covered include: how to dress for self-confidence and success; how to combine fabrics, patterns, and accessories; and how to look great on a tiny budget without compromising style. Encompassing everything from casual wear to evening dress, this is a wonderful reference book for every style and fashion-conscious man. View More...
A striking and inventive social history of the role of clothing in the making of modern Americans. While fashions of the rich and famous have been lessly chronicled, little attention has been paid to the meaning of clothes for everyone else. Yet between 1890 and the outbreak of World War II, as ready-to-wear came into its own, the clothes of ordinary Americans claimed the nation's attention. Allied with civic virtue, fashion now played an increasingly important role in shaping the national character. Drawing on a wealth of sources -- from advertisements, trade journals, and health manuals to s... View More...
"Apparel Merchandising: The Line Starts Here, 2nd Edition, " is a comprehensive review of apparel merchandising from the perspective of the apparel producer. Rosenau and Wilson draw on their extensive backgrounds in the industry, covering men's tailored clothing, men's and women's sportswear and activewear and children's wear in both domestic and international markets. The text follows the evolution of the merchandising function with emphasis on product development and production efficiency, highlighting the philosophies of industry executives and the effective integration of the merchandising... View More...
Everyone, it seems, is a fan of Audrey's. She was Gigi, a princess, Holly Golightly, a nun, Maid Marian, even an angel. And we believed her in every role. But Audrey Hepburn was also one of the most admired and emulated women of the twentieth century, who encouraged women to discover and highlight their own strength. By example, she not only changed the way women dress--she forever altered the way they viewed themselves.But Audrey Hepburn's beauty was more than skin deep. You know the Audrey you saw onscreen? Audrey was like that in real life, only a million times better, says designer Jeffrey... View More...
Craftspeople who admire striking Indian designs can now create beautiful, colorful beadwork originated by the Chippewa, Iroquois, Pawnee, Seminole, Winnebago, and other American Indian tribes.This book is a complete guide to this time-honored handicraft, offering step-by-step instructions, clear diagrams, and 71 tribal designs for two types of traditional bead applications -- bead weaving and appliqu beading. You'll find fifty versatile designs charted on graph paper for bead weaving and twenty-one full-size patterns for appliqu , including transfer instructions and color keys. Easy-to-follow... View More...
By combining the buttonhole stitch with no-sew fusing techniques, readers can make quick-and-easy quilts and crafts. The whimsical applique projects in this book include pillows, hats, cloth dolls, quilts, festive jackets, and teddy bears bedecked with silk ribbons. View More...
This book asks readers to act as business consultants in a variety of hypothetical work settings, from apparel and soft goods manufacturing to retail sales. Presenting real-life business situations, the cases encourage readers to offer original ideas for problem-solving and troubleshooting. Brief narratives introduce case studies in each chapter. An interdisciplinary approach examines the clothing, textiles and soft goods industries.
"Cool" colors were hot for fabrics in the late 1960s. The youth of the day wore hot pinks and purples, chartreuse, orange, and yellow. Sometimes called neon colors, these cool hot colors were often combined into wild and psychedelic floral and geometric designs. Hundreds of splashy colors and designs from actual 1960s European and American textile manufacturers' sample books are photographed and displayed with full descriptions and fabric content information. This book takes the '60s enthusiast on a magical ride to an era of outrageous artistic expression. View More...
The work of "Motley," a group of set and costume designers who came to prominence in 1932, Designing and Making Stage Costumes, revised and updated, includes 16 pages of color illustration and covers several aspects of a costume designer's work, from preliminary sketches and discussions with a director to cutting and fitting them, from productions of Shakespeare to those of modern plays and musicals. Eleven chapters include advice on a wide variety of problems that face students, professionals and amateur dramatic societies.... View More...
" There are really only two kinds of clothes in the world-- those that make you look fat and those that don't. All the rest is just details, " writes style maven Leah Feldon. " If you really want the answer to 'Does this make me look fat?' this is where you'll get it-- whether you're an ultra-size diva on a mini-size starlet. Here, clothes that add heft are taken to task and those that diminish it are cheered. In these pages you will find out exactly what you need to know to make you look slimmer, taller, and better-proportioned in your clothes." Feldon both enlightens and delights as she take... View More...
This absorbing survey of medieval clothing makes an important and unique contribution to our understanding of the cultural and social conditions of western Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Drawing on paintings and sculpture, documents and literature, surviving clothing, textiles, jewelry, and armor, Fran oise Piponnier and Perrine Mane show that garments and accessories of the middle ages reveal much about life and society of the time. The authors examine the sources for clothing: what clothes were made of, why, and from where the materials came. They provide a chronology of c... View More...
A fascinating and comprehensive look into the life of American fashion designer Ralph Lauren, now with an afterword."Deep-dish...sharp-clawed...honestly admiring."--New York TimesThere are at least two Ralph Laurens. To the public he's a gentle, modest, yet secure and purposeful man. Inside the walls of Polo Ralph Lauren, though, he was long seen by some as a narcissist, an insecure ditherer, and, at times, a rampaging tyrant. Michael Gross, author of the bestsellers Model and 740 Park, lays bare the truths of this fashion emperor's rise, and reveals not only the secrets of his meteoric succes... View More...
Today, textiles and apparel are produced in over 200 countries. Over the past 100 years, trade in textiles and apparel has progressed from independent markets within local communities to a complex global distribution system. No other forms of commerce can claim to be as pervasive throughout the globe as the production and distribution of textile and apparel products. Not only is this business found in all parts of the globe, but textiles and apparel provides employment for more people than any other industry, directly providing a livelihood for many millions of people, including employment of ... View More...