Costume Design

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...

Take a deep dive into preppy culture with this stunning lookbook and history of the iconic style.Preppy is a look, a vibe, and a lifestyle. From its inception as the fashion of Ivy League students to Japanese hipsters to Black jazz musicians, up to the...

Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture showcases breakthrough sneaker's from the mid-nineteenth century for sports performance to present day cultural icon. Drawn from collections including Adidas, Nike, Reebok, PUMA, and Converse archives, as well...

A visual goldmine for designers of original print, weave and embellishment, Sourcing Ideas for Textile Design will help you generate new ideas, develop them methodically and finally create beautifully designed textiles. The carefully selected range of...

The first monograph on British artist Ptolemy Mann is a celebration of her unique weaving and painting practice and extraordinary use of colour. British artist Ptolemy Mann's studio practice bridges weaving and painting, creating distinctive, refined...

"A design isn't dozens of little objects, or hungry-looking rectangular windowpanes: it is something that becomes a design by repeating, giving you something that a single pattern doesn't give you. " - (Phyllis Barron, Dartington 1964) During the...

Shoes is an inspiring, impeccably researched and concise history of footwear through the ages. After a general introduction, chronological chapters illustrated throughout retrace the history of footwear from the Middle Ages to today, featuring shoes and...

Complement your cosplay with incredible wigs - custom-designed and created by you! Regan Cerato of Cowbutt Crunchies shows you how to make dozens of extravagant wigs for cosplayer needs, from dyed spikes to dragon scales to fibre flowers and so much...

Donatella Versace and Jean-Paul Gaultier, Yves Saint Laurent and Giorgio Armani, Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci: fashion is at once a familiar yet mysteriously elite world that we all experience, whether we're buying a new pair of jeans, reading Vogue, or...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451640588Author Maureen CallahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Touchstone BooksPublisher Touchstone BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904982364Author Michael BathFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Archetype Publications LtdPublisher Archetype Publications LtdWeight(grams)...

The history, legacy, and boundless creativity of weavers over the centuries is the base in this helpful guide for new weavers, seasoned tapestry artists, and enthusiasts. Tapestry weaving is an art form that has been around since antiquity, and these...

Who gets pockets, and why?It's a subject that stirs up plenty of passion: Why do men's clothes have so many pockets and women's so few? And why are the pockets on women's clothes often too small to fit phones, if they even open at all? In her captivating...

Tapestries have been an enigmatic form of artwork for hundreds of years, with the intricate symbolism of their woven narratives still fascinating viewers today. Unicorns and fantastic beasts rub shoulders with well-heeled aristocrats; famous biblical and...

The story of photography's first practicable colour process is also the story of fashion as it evolved from the Edwardian era to the newfound fluidity and freedom of the 1920s. 'Soon the world will be color-mad and Lumiere will be responsible' Alfred...

This book explains fashion design and product development as a total, integrated process whose function is to market a continuous stream of new clothes at a profit. It explores materials, manufacture, costs, quality and the organisation of the design and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486271248Author C. Willett CunningtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Series Dover Fashion and...

In what ways do changing notions of social class correspond with key developments in the history of fashion? Focusing on examples ranging from 18th-century Britain to aspects of the global fashion industry in the early 21st century, Fashion and Class...

A luxurious, elegant ode to the legendary men and women's watches Developed 60 years ago from the eponymous race that bequeathed its speed, drive, and virality, the TAG Heuer Carrera is a legendary and iconic timepiece that remains synonymous with...

"I want my clothes to make you smile!"-Patrick Kelly Patrick Kelly (1954-1990) was known for his bold, bright, and joyful fashion creations that resonated in the streets and nightclubs and on the runways of New York, Paris, and beyond. The first American...

The 1970s was a decade of style contrasts: every extreme of fashion was met by an equally trendy opposite reaction. Ankle-length maxi skirts vied for attention with super-short hot-pants. Outfits in vibrant prints and obviously man-made fabrics...

The best way to learn to draw is to DRAW! And this exciting little sketchbook is going to help you do just that. From cover to cover, this book is filled with 900 inspiring, modern drawings of little black dresses, summery hats, stylish shoes, faux fur...

Bringing to life the world of Spanish royal tailor Mateo Aguado and his colleagues during the reign of Philip IV, and exploring the distinctive look of the court in seventeenth-century Madrid Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velazquez is the first archival...

New approaches to what is arguably the most famous artefact from the Middle Ages. In the past two decades, scholarly assessment of the Bayeux Tapestry has moved beyond studies of its sources and analogues, dating, origin and purpose, and site of...

This new edition of The Routledge Companion to Design Research offers an updated, comprehensive examination of design research, celebrating a plurality of voices and range of conceptual, methodological, technological and theoretical approaches evident in...

A superlative study of the roots of the modern fashion show In the early 20th century, the desire to see clothing in motion flourished on both sides of the Atlantic: models tangoed, slithered, swaggered, and undulated before customers in couture houses...

The essential guide to fashion's favourite print. Since Christian Dior first brought leopard print to the catwalk in 1947, it has earned a cult following. Popularised by everyone from 1940s screen sirens to pop...

The early years of the fashion icon The beginnings of Chanel's fashion brand lie in the French seaside resorts. In 1912, Coco-then still Gabrielle-Chanel opened her first boutique in Deauville; shops in Biarritz, Monte Carlo and Cannes soon followed...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910010211Author Kate FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint UniformbooksPublisher UniformbooksDimensions(mm) 234mm * 142mm * 7mm

The needle arts are traditionally associated with the decorative, domestic, and feminine. Stitching the Self sets out to expand this narrow view, demonstrating how needlework has emerged as an art form through which both objects and identities - social,...

Learn to create amazing kemonomimi with realistic animal features and matching accessories!Long, swishing tails and pointy animal ears or maybe antlers, horns, wings and feathers if you prefer--this is the ultimate furry handbook for manga and anime...

From Elizabeth Keckly's designs as a freewoman for Abraham Lincoln's wife to flamboyant clothing showcased by Patrick Kelly in Paris, Black designers have made major contributions to American fashion. However, many of their achievements have gone...

A guide to figurative stitching in textile art, with techniques and tips. Figurative stitch is soaring in popularity. In this guide, textile artist Rosie James shares ideas and techniques on using the sewing machine's needle and thread almost as a pencil...

What if fashion was a state? What kind of state would it be? Probably not a democracy. Otto von Busch sees fashion as a totalitarian state, with a population all too eager to enact the decrees of its aesthetic superiority. Peers police each other and...