Costume Design

Future Beauty is the first comprehensive survey of Japanese avant-garde fashion of the last 30 years. Such designers as Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo made an enormous impact on the world fashion scene in the late twentieth century,...

This fundamental resource for all textile and fashion designers explores over 70 production techniques and over 60 materials used in textile and fashion design. Organized into four main parts - Fibre and Yarn Technology, Textile Technology, Construction...

An invaluable resource for fashion students, teachers and designers, this book looks at research sketchbooks and the role they play in the research and design process. Demonstrating how ideas are constructed, for single garments as well as entire...

Focusing on a single Malian textile identified variously as bogolanfini, bogolan, or mudcloth, Victoria L. Rovine traces the dramatic technical and stylistic innovations that have transformed the cloth from its village origins into a symbol of new...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648273448Author Abc Seams Pty LtdFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ABC Seams Pty. Ltd.Publisher ABC Seams Pty. Ltd.Series ABC SeamsWeight(grams)...

A stunning showcase of Azzedine Alaia's remarkable fashion collection, most published here for the first time. Azzedine Alaia (1935-2017) was not only a world renowned fashion designer but also an avid collector of vintage fashion. Now a major...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592400416Author Kendall FarrFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 137mm * 16mm

Screen Style celebrates the beautiful, stylish and often covetable outfits and costumes featured in 50 iconic and diverse series of the small screen: from Mad Men to Call My Agent, Bridgerton to Empire.By organising the series into genres - Comedy,...

This book reveals the impact of wartime and austerity on British fashion and tells the story of how a spirit of patriotism and make-do-and-mend unleashed a wave of new creativity among women who were starved of high fashion by shortages and rationing...

The Rise of the Stylist examines the social factors that contributed to the stylist becoming a key role in fashion image-making. The 1980s' stylist is presented as a cultural intermediary and auteur, as commercial compass and avant-garde innovator...

For centuries, Palestinian women wrote the stories of their lives and land with a needle and thread. Their embroidery, or tatreez, inspired hundreds of artists who reinterpreted and transformed it into a symbol of Palestinian identity, steadfastness and...

Paul Poiret (1879-1944) led the fashion world in the first decade of the twentieth century and his autobiography tells the extraordinary story of his meteoric rise to fame. From his humble Parisian childhood to his debut as a couturier, to his...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786291448Format PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Spurred by an increasingly international and competitive market, the Renaissance saw the development of many new fabrics and the use of highly prized ingredients imported from the New World. In response to a thirst for the new, fashion's pace of change...

Features step by step instructions on how to create a variety of different masksDetailed full-color photographs illustrate each stepCovers a wide range of materials, including latex, paper and fabric mache, cold foam, thermoplastics, urethane and EVA...

Edinburgh Weavers was one of the most important textile companies of the twentieth century. Alastair Morton, visionary art director of the company, commissioned a remarkable series of textiles from leading British artists, including Ben Nicholson,...

Riffling through the wardrobes of years gone by, costume historian Lucy Adlington reveals the rich stories underlying the clothes we wear in this stylish tour of the most important developments in the history of fashion, from ancient times to the present...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786882328Author Ariel GoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HyperionPublisher Hyperion

A dazzling celebration of the clothes that made America's favorite doll and the incredible woman behind them, timed to the movie release of Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and directed by Greta Gerwig.If you've ever had a Barbie doll, or...

Follow high-style couture trends over a 100-year period from 1800 to 1900, as illustrated in 374 color photographs of original, hand-colored fashion plates from the author's private collection. The 11 chapters (organized by decade) include a brief survey...

An astute exploration of the most outrageous shoe designs of the 21st century This fabulously illustrated book explores western culture's fascination with extravagant and fashionable shoes. Over the past decade, shoe design has become increasingly...

The first major publication to explore the prolific career of Kaffe Fassett, one of the most recognized names in contemporary craft and design Kaffe Fassett (b. 1937) is one of the most recognized names in contemporary craft and design with work...

This title will present an overview of the core textiles techniques: applique; printing onto fabric; stencilling; fabric painting; dyeing; quilting and patchwork; batik; embroidery (hand and machine); felt-making; weaving; silk painting; fusing and...

The Fundamentals of Fashion Design provides a fully illustrated introduction to the key elements of fashion design, from the initial concept of a fashion idea to realizing it in 3D form. Writing with clarity and precision, Richard Sorger and Jenny Udale...

Romantic and poetic, yet edgy, bold, and contemporary, Erdem s creations have captivated the global fashion scene for two decades. Taking inspiration for his collections largely from women rebels who lived just as they wanted to, Erdem has fashioned a...

A virtual pageantry of the many ways in which military styles inspire and influence contemporary fashion The transformation of military clothing into popular retail fashion has a long history. In fact, the designs of some of today's most popular styles,...

Special Make-Up Effects concentrates on the genre of horror characters and other special creations (fantasy, sci-fi, etc), giving tips about the materials, techniques, and 'tricks of the trade' necessary to create unique make-up effects. This focused...

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For hundreds of years, skilled craftspeople in the Syrian centers of Aleppo, Damascus, and Homs produced intricately woven textiles for the royal courts, worldly merchants, and elite Bedouin families of the Ottoman Empire. City dwellers were renowned for...

Original catalogue to the Paris exhibition and a core part of the blockbuster retrospective at the V&A. It was in 1947 that Christian Dior presented his first collection and heralded the birth of a new fashion silhouette for women. After the austerity...

Fashion in the Edwardian period underwent some quite revolutionary changes. The delicately coloured, flower-and-lace-trimmed trailing gowns and elaborate hairstyles worn by tightly corseted fashionable ladies in the early years of Edward VII's reign...

Discover the legacy of Alexander McQueen and trace his rise in high-fashion in this gorgeous monograph that covers his time with Givenchy and Gucci, his greatest inspirations, and his work with artists including Bjoerk, David Bowie, Dita Von Teese,...

In more than 270 color images, hundreds of quilts, juxtaposed for the first time, celebrate and explore the South's rich quilting history. Quilt expert Mary W. Kerr joins 13 other textile historians to show why southern quilts have a distinctiveness...

Gianni Versace created a fashion house that, as British Vogue declared, defined late twentieth-century glamour, invented the supermodel and sanctioned in the public consciousness a supremely self-assured feminine sexuality.'His debut line in 1978 was...

Amigurumi crochet dolls have never been so easy-or cute-until now!Crochet Cute Amigurumi Animals with Mix-and-Match Outfits shows crocheters how to make endearing animal dolls with a fabulous array of fun fashions to dress them in.One basic ragdoll body...

An intimate exploration of Yves Saint Laurent's creative world, captured by photographer - and son of the couturier's right-hand woman, Anne-Marie Munoz - Carlos Munoz-Yague. Yves Saint Laurent: Inside Out presents an extraordinarily intimate insight...

Fashion is one of the defining features of human evolution and culture. Spanning from the first civilizations to today's most recent trends, this enlarged and updated edition of our bestseller analyses the importance and meaning of fashion via an...

A true original: this lavishly photographed book captures the style of American fashion maverick Iris Apfel, who, over the past forty years, has cultivated a personal chic that is exuberantly idiosyncratic. Combining genres, colours, textures and...

Dating back to the fifth millennium BCE, India's rich and vibrant textile tradition boasts an enormous range of techniques and extraordinary level of artistry. Drawn from one of the world's finest collections of Indian textiles, this book presents a...

Hermes Philosophy takes you on a stunning visual journey from the birth of a family enterprise to the ascension of the world's most exclusive fashion and luxury brand. A history not only of the fashion house, but also of the famous models, design...