Textile Costume category: 195 books
African Dress
Fashion, Agency, Performance
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Dress and fashion practices in Africa and the diaspora are dynamic and diverse, whether on the street or on the fashion runway.
Focusing on the dressed body as a performance site, African Dress explores how ideas and practices of dress contest or legitimize existing power structures through...
Fashion's Double
Representations of Fashion in Painting, Photography and Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Mere clothing is transformed into desirable fashion by the way it is represented in imagery. Fashion's Double examines how meanings are projected onto garments through their representation, whether in painting, photography, cinema or online fashion film, conveying identity and status, eliciting fascination...
Know It All Fashion
The 50 Key Modes, Garments, and Designers, Each Explained in Under a Minute
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Most of us have some feeling for fashion and have a vague idea of what’s in and what’s out. Less familiar to most, however, is the way fashion works as a global business. Know-It-All Fashion looks beyond the surface of this billion-dollar industry. Each entry is summarized in under a minute–using...
by Klaus Carl
Language: French
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Qu’y-a-t-il de plus banal qu’une paire de chaussures ? Pourtant, aujourd’hui encore, la moitié de l’humanité n’en connaît pas l’usage. Dans un monde où la chaussure est devenue un objet de consommation, comment oublier que nos arrière-grands-parents l’utilisaient pour les cérémonies...
by Klaus Carl
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Mega Square Shoes focuses on the history of the shoe and elevates the shoe to the rank of a work of art. The author is a leading expert on the subject and curator of France‘s Shoe Museum, which holds the greatest shoe collection in the world, with 12,000 specimens.
by Alexander F. Tcherviakov
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Besides its practical uses in regions across the globe, the fan has a long history as a fashion item, with new shapes, materials, and colours constantly being created. This book portrays the most artistic examples from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The imaginative shapes and expensive materials...
Design by Nature
Creating Layered, Lived-in Spaces Inspired by the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The first design book that translates elements of nature--including flora, water, and wood--into elements of decor for beautiful, lived-in, bohemian interiors, from acclaimed designer and tastemaker Erica Tanov.
Inspired by nature's colors, textures, and patterns, design icon Erica Tanov uses...
by Victoria Charles
Language: French
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Les éventails, aujourd'hui appréciés pour leur finesse et leur beauté, bénéficiaient en d'autres temps, d'une véritable fonction auprès des femmes de la bonne société. Loin d'être considérés comme de simples objets, ils se faisaient le vecteur d'un langage à part entière. Au moyen d’une...
Pattern
& the secrets of lasting design
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This is the black and white paperback ebook edition of Pattern, published in hardback in 2016 by Saltyard Books.
If you would like the original colour illustrated version of Pattern it is available in hardback ISBN 9781444734942 and ebook ISBN 9781444734966.
Creativity, collaboration, inspiration
Emma...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This vintage book contains a complete and comprehensive handbook on cutting garments, originally intended for tailors. It covers every aspect of the subject, with chapters on designing, drawings, mathematics and measurements, tools, and much more. This timeless volume will appeal to modern tailors...
Kimono Design
An Introduction to Textiles and Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Kimono Design: An Introduction to Textiles and Patterns uses hundreds of photographs and a wealth of information on colors, fabrics and embellishments to paint a portrait of Japanese culture, art and thought. Lavish classical patterns, sweeping scenes, and the many motifs that have been woven, dyed,...
Designing Modern America
Broadway to Main Street
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
From the 1920s through the 1950s, two individuals, Joseph Urban and Norman Bel Geddes, did more, by far, to create the image of America” and make it synonymous with modernity than any of their contemporaries. Urban and Bel Geddes were leading Broadway stage designers and directors who turned their...
by Professor Julia Gaimster
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
The ability to analyze and interpret visual information is essential in fashion. However, students tend to struggle with the concept of visual research, as well as with the application of that research.
Visual Research Methods in Fashion provides students with techniques, tools and inspiration...
History of Men’s Accessories
A Short Guide for Men About Town
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2011
This idiosyncratic book takes the reader on a fascinating journey, from high-end grooming and care, including open razors, strops and Belgian waterstone; silver-tipped badger shaving brushes, shaving soaps and D R Harris's Pick-me-up, loofahs and sponges, through colognes and scents, including history,...