The Fashion Design Directory: An A - Z of the Worlds Most Influential Designers and Labels by Marnie Fogg
$52.00 NZD
Category: Fashion
The Fashion Design Directory is the ultimate guide to who's who in the world of fashion design. Fully illustrated, it presents 125 of the key design practitioners from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day, the people and companies who have shaped the world of fashion and those who define ...Show more
The Fashion Designer's Textile Directory: The Creative Use of Fabrics in Design by Gail Baugh
$52.00 NZD
Category: Fashion
This is the fabric and textile directory that dressmakers and fashion designers have been waiting for. This book is like having your own personal shopper able to recommend fabrics to suit the effects you want to achieve, show you how the fabric will perform, and recommend ways of using it. Each fabric i ...Show more
The Fashion Resource Book Research for Design by Robert Leach
$49.00 NZD
Category: Fashion
Interviews with leading contemporary designers, including Paul Smith, Stephen Jones, and Maria Cornejo and education professionals, including Willie Walters, Course Director at Central St Martins, Andrew Groves from the University of Westminster and a Foreword by Shelley Fox, the Donna Karan Professor o ...Show more
The Fashion Swatch Book by Marnie Fogg
$80.00 NZD
Category: Fashion
Featuring fabric designs by more than one hundred of the worlds top fashion designers and brands, and over 1,100 colour and black and white images, this is the most comprehensive sourcebook of fashion fabrics ever produced. The huge, varied collection of swatches reproduced in this book ranges from exam ...Show more
The Fun of the Fifties: Ads, Fads and Fashion by Robert Opie
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fashion
A nostalgic celebration of the fabulous fifties. The 1950s was a heady mix of American excitement - cowboys, rock'n'roll, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe - and the British sense of fun that included Airfix kits, Plasticine and Hornby Dublo trains. It was a boom time for DIY enthusiasts, seaside holidays and space ...Show more
The Garments Of Court And Palace by Philip Bobbitt
$29.00 NZD
Category: Fashion
"The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded as the most important exploration of politics - and in particular the politics of power - ever written. In Garments of Court and Palace, Philip Bobbitt, a preeminent and orig ...Show more
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St Clair
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fashion
'A charming, absorbing history that takes us on a journey from the silk roads to sportswear, from ruffs to spacesuits . . . I devoured this quietly feminist book' SUNDAY TIMES All textiles begin with a twist. From colourful 30,000-year old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to what the linen ...Show more
The Handbag: To Have and to Hold by Carmel Allen
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fashion
An indispensable accessory as well as a key fashion statement, the handbag is portable boudoir, office, bank and emergency kit for women everywhere. With chapters on the history of the handbag, a Who's Who of style-shapers, a look at the contents women carry and an A-Z of international designers and bra ...Show more
The History of Beads by Lois Sherr Dubin
$39.00 NZD
Category: Fashion
With hundreds of crisp colour photos and intelligently written text that reaps the benefits of the author's thirty years of research, "The History of Beads" documents bead styles and uses in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Far East. Ranging from prehistoric times to the 20th century, this book sto ...Show more
The History of Modern Fashion by Daniel James Cole
$115.00 NZD
Category: Fashion
This lavishly illustrated book looks at the history of fashion from 1850 to 2010. Taking a decade-by-decade approach, Daniel James Cole and Nancy Deihl explore the history of fashion as a lively and dynamic manifestation of twentieth-century culture. Covering chronological changes in womenswear, menswea ...Show more
The Hundred Dresses: The Most Iconic Styles of Our Time
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fashion
From the Sack to the Sari, each dress makes a powerful statement about the woman who wears it. Inspired by the Eleanor Estes' children's classic The Hundred Dresses, Erin McKean's classic-to-be by the same title, with chic illustrations by Donna Mehalko, is a definitive and witty look at what one hundr ...Show more
The Jewelry Recipe Book: Transforming Ordinary Materials into Stylish and Distinctive Earrings, Bracelets, Necklaces, and Pins by Nancy Soriano
$50.00 NZD
Category: Fashion | Series: Recipe Book Ser.
The Jewelry Recipe Book takes materials available at large craft stores (as well as specialty shops and artisan shops on Etsy)--beads, shrink plastic, leather, lace, pearls, sequins, polymer clay, yarn, and pinecones, to name a few--and transforms them into one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry. Each of the 3 ...Show more