Fashion category: 1172 books
by David Meagher
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Interviews with the world’s leading fashion designers.
Where do designers find inspiration? How do they put a collection together? Can they stay on the cutting edge creatively and run a viable business at the same time?
In Fashion Speak, David Meagher talks to top Australian and international...
The Mood Guide to Fabric and Fashion
The Essential Guide from the World's Most Famous Fabric Store
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
“Designers, we’re going to Mood!”
More than 10 years ago, Tim Gunn and Project Runway introduced millions of viewers to New York’s ultimate fabric mecca, Mood Fabrics. Now, the experts behind this fabric power- house bring their fabric and fashion know-how—plus their behind-the-scenes...
Identities Through Fashion
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Fashion has become a fertile field of study for academics across disciplines, now that the rules, once tightly fixed, have been deconstructed. This volume brings together academics from various disciplines - philosophy, sociology, medicine, anthropology, psychology and psychiatry - to examine fashion's...
Fashionable Childhood
Children in Advertising
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Fashionable Childhood is the first book to critically examine representations of children and childhood through fashion media. Focussing on themes such as innocence, sexuality, class, and gender, this book provides a detailed and fascinating overview of the topic over the last 40 years.
With...
Fashion Photography 101
A Complete Course for the New Fashion Photographers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Fashion photography is one of the most appealing markets for any new photographer, but also one of the most challenging, combining as it does a group of disciplines, from the more technical makeup and editing roles to the photography itself.
With digital technology and good planning, however,...
The Way She Wears It
The Ultimate Insider's Guide to Revealing Your Personal Style
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
The most highly sought-after fashion illustrator/luxury project designer working today uses her sketches, styling skills and visual expertise to help you develop your eye, define your aesthetic, banish the predictable, stock your wardrobe, and make heads turn in this highly visual and lavishly designed...
Sketchbook Fashion
25 printable female fashion figures
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
This book contains 25 female fashion figures in different poses. The printable files are rendered lightly, so that you can draw your own fashion illustration on them.
Sneakers
Fashion, Gender, and Subculture
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
This is the first academic study of sneakers and the subculture that surrounds them. Since the 1980s, American sneaker enthusiasts, popularly known as "sneakerheads†? or "sneakerholics†?, have created a distinctive identity for themselves, while sneaker manufacturers such as Reebok,...
The Design Museum Fashion Evolution
The 250 looks that shaped modern fashion
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2019
From the Chanel suit to the Wonderbra, via Jackie Kennedy, Ziggy Stardust and Alexander McQueen, respected fashion journalist and editor Paula Reed explores each of the styles and visionaries that have defined the way we dress.
Spanning fifty years - from the 1950s to the 1990s - and accompanied...
Personal Style Blogs
Appearances that Fascinate
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
From *Style Rookie *to Style Bubble, personal style blogs exploded onto the scene in the mid-2000s giving voice to young and stylish writers who had their own unique take on the seasonal fashion cycle and how to curate an individual style within the shifting swirl of trends. *Personal Style Blogs *examines...
The Aesthetic Economy of Fashion
Markets and Value in Clothing and Modelling
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Fashion is bound up with promoting the 'new', concerned with constantly changing aesthetics. The favoured styles or looks of a season arise out of the work of a vast range of different actors who collectively produce, select, distribute and promote the new ideals, before moving on to next season....
Sex and Suits
The Evolution of Modern Dress
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Since the dawn of western fashion in the Middle Ages, women's dress has never stopped evolving, yet menswear has seen far fewer style revolutions. At the centre of the male wardrobe is the suit: relatively unchanged since the 17th century, its cut and cloth suggest athleticism, seriousness, sexuality...
Art + Fashion, Abridged Reading Edition
Collaborations and Connections Between Icons
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Art + Fashion is as exciting and elegant as the creative partnerships it celebrates. In this abridged reading edition, readers will enjoy the book's sparkling and informative text in its entirety, plus a single stunning representative photo of each of the 25 collaborative projects profiled. Spanning...
Menswear Revolution
The Transformation of Contemporary Men’s Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
In recent years, menswear has moved decisively center stage. Menswear Revolution investigates the transformation of men's fashion through the lens of shifting masculinities, examining how its increasing diversity has created new ways for men to explore and express their identities. Harnessing sustained...