Most certainly not for jeans and t-shirt wearers, this pocket guide is an etiquette and history of classic styling. It illustrates the fine differences in the gentleman's dress code and enables readers to dress for any occasion. It also includes summary style charts and warnings of classic faux pas.

The second edition of this authoritative text has been updated to provide the latest information on the organization and operation of the fashion industry. It traces the steps of fashion apparel,accessories, and home fashions from research through design, manufacturing, and marketing, all the way to the final sale to the consumer. It explains the industry's various components, emphasizing technological changes and global perspectives.

Product Description: A sneaker’s evolution from style dud to global icon. In this book, shoe enthusiast Hal Peterson takes an in-depth look at the history, significance, and magic of “Chucks.” Originally a rubber shoe company, Converse rolled out the canvas All Star in 1917, nicknamed “Chucks” for the basketball hall-of-famer, Charles “Chuck” Taylor, who was a lifelong promoter...read more

A compendium of Art Deco style features period images of such outfits as beaded evening dresses, sportswear, and traveling ensembles, in a volume complemented by posters, photographs, and images from fashion magazines of the era.

The Fashion Handbook is the indispensable guide to the fashion industry. It explores the varied and diverse aspects of the business, bringing together critical concepts with practical information about the industry’s structure and core skills, as well as offering advice on real working practices and providing information about careers and training. Tracing the development of the fashion industry, this book looks at how fashion can be understood from both social and cultural perspectives. Each chapter contributes to the knowledge of a particular academic or vocational area either through building on existing research or through the dissemination of new research undertaken into specialist vocational disciplines. The Fashion Handbook uses case studies, interviews and profiles and includes chapters written by recognised academics and fashion industry experts. Specialist topics include fashion culture, luxury brands, fashion journalism, fashion buying, design and manufacturing, retailing, PR and styling. The Fashion Handbook includes: a unique and wide overview of the fashion industry chapters on specialist topics contributions from recognised experts in both academia and the fashion industry expert advice on careers in fashion retailing. A must for all students of the fashion world.

Uses drawings, paintings, and photographs to help illustrate the history of fashion in ancient Egypt, classical Greece and Rome, and modern Europe

Product Description: Christian Dior (1905–1957) rocketed to fame with his first collection in 1947 when the “New Look” took the world by storm. This charming autobiography gives fascinating and detailed insight into the workings of a great fashion house, while revealing the private man behind the high-profile establishment...read more

This highly successful classic on fashion sewing retains the large helpful illustrations and easy-to-read text of previous editions. The text is organized in a step-by-step, start-to-finish style, coupled by thousands of enhanced visuals. Amaden-Crawford helps the reader create fashionable and professional looking garments for women, men and children.

Chronicles every notable geographical region, historical period, and style of dress and accessories, in a photographic history that features more than one thousand illustrations of museum-quality artifacts, historical paintings, woodblock prints, and other artworks.

Who s Who in Fashion, 5th Edition, captures the energy, drama, and excitement of theluminaries who make up the world of fashion. Alphabetical listing of profiles includesuseful design philosophies, as well as mentors and sources of inspiration. The biographiestrace the careers of many of the men and women who ve contributed to fashion. Besidestoday s major figures and legendary designers of the past, there are lesser known peopleand newcomers worth watching as well as a sampling of interesting nonconformists freespirits who prefer to work off the main fashion paths. The picture would not be completewithout the style makers, those with an eye and an instinct for fashion and who interpretit for the public; and of course, the editors, photographers, artists those who sketch andphotograph, write about fashion, and promote it.

The Design Process explores the route of a design through seven stages from the World ofImagination to the World of Objects, starting the journey at inspiration with production asthe destination. Aspelund emphasizes the need to understand one s own creativity in orderto develop and communicate ideas. He examines the designer s roles artist, dreamer,performer, manager, coordinator, communicator, and problem solver. Supplementing theauthor s insights from his personal experience are the perspectives of other designers.

Product Description: Perfume has always been an exclusive industry, from its early days with France quickly claiming the title as the premier centre of the perfume industry to the current multi-million dollar industry retaining its image of luxury and glamour...read more

Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of 'fashion' as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. It provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising. All articles have solid theoretical underpinnings and are based on original research. Fashion Theory is covered by the following abstracting/indexing services: Abstracts in Anthropology; AOI Anthropological Index Online; ARTbibliographies Modern; British Humanities Index; DAAI Design and Applied Arts Index; IBR International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences; IBSS International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; IBZ International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences; ISI Arts and Humanities Citation Index; Scopus; Sociological Abstracts

Product Description: This book examines the encounter between Impressionist painting and Parisian consumer culture. Its analysis of Impressionist paintings depicting women as consumers, producers, or sellers in sites such as the millinery boutique, theater, opera, café-concert and market revises our understanding of the representation of women in Impressionist painting, from women¹s exclusion from modernity to their inclusion in its public spaces, and from the privileging of the male gaze to a plurality of gazes...read more

By experimenting with different methods of applying paint to the many types of fabrics available, it is possible to transform the ordinary into individual, hand-crafted objects.