Costume Design

Textiles and Fashion explores the integration of textile design with fashion, showing the many ways designers use fibre, fabric construction and surface treatments within a garment and on the body. It begins with a brief history of textiles in ...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922304025Author Kitty MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Venture InkPublisher Venture InkWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

A close study of clothes worn by aristocratic families and their households at the time of the Black Prince - and of Chaucer - showing Europe-wide influences. 1340 to 1363 were years remarkable for dramatic developments in fashion and for extravagant...

This essential book provides the first comprehensive overview of the symbiotic relationship that exists between fashion and textiles. Because textiles represent a central ingredient of fashion (as with denim jeans, for example), their interrelationship...

The most colorful and complete book published on the most enduring souvenir ever invented: the Hawaiian shirt. Beautifully illustrated with hundreds of images, this book recounts the colorful stories behind these marvelous shirts: as cultural icons,...

The Offbeat Sari will explore how the sari has become a site for design innovation, an expression of identity, a form of resistance, and a crafted object carrying layers of cultural meanings. In recent years, the sari has been reinvented. The urban...

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...

Wiener Werkstatte: Textiles and their design This book presents new research and archival findings on the textile and fashion designs of the Wiener Werkstatte movement (1903-1932). Textile specialists, art and design historians offer insights into the...

Animal products were used extensively in nineteenth-century Britain. A middle-class Victorian woman might wear a dress made of alpaca wool, drape herself in a sealskin jacket, brush her hair with a tortoiseshell comb, and sport feathers in her hat. She...

When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken? This disturbing book tells a dark story of hazardous manufacturing, poisonous materials, environmental abuses, political machinations, and...

The catalogue A Meeting of Cultures: Fashions of North Africa is a pathbreaking work focused specifically on contemporary fashion designers and influencers in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. This work broadens the scope of scholarship on the...

The Fashion Icons Quote Series is a series of gift books full of inspiring and fabulous quotes from fashion icons across the generations.Words from a Fashion Icon: Guccio Gucci is a fully illustrated collection of quotes with Megan Hess' iconic and...

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This book documents a collection of approximately 90 Paracas textiles. The collection consists of cloaks, ponchos, tunics, as well as some smaller fragments such as ribbons. Originally housed at the Ethnographic Museum in Gothenburg, Sweden, the objects...

Bethan Ash's rich, colourful quilts are created using improvisational collage techniques. Working instinctively, she simply layers fabric shapes onto a prepared background and fuses them down, then adds stitching later. Each quilt is cut freehand,...

A turban is a strip of cloth folded and wrapped around the head; however, this description includes multifarious forms across space and time. This book follows the turban as it moves from the Arabian Peninsula through the Ottoman Empire to...

Founded in 1946, the history of the Parisian fashion house Dior is characterised by couture and craftsmanship. Over the years, the brand and its designers have constantly redefined the boundaries of style and femininity. This has resulted in a series of...

Kimonos reveals the intricacies of Japanese dress from the 18th century to the present. Including garments for women, men and children, the details have been selected both for their exquisite beauty and craftsmanship, and for how much they impart about...

Embroidery is back! This book by Cristin Morgan, founder of the popular hand embroidery company Marigold + Mars, contains a stunning collection of contemporary embroidery motifs with bold colour palettes for you to stitch away at for hours on end. The...

"I love the Foale and Tuffin book. The layout and graphics are terrific and it's a joy to read. The whole book is so well put together." Mary Quant "I wish all fashion books could be as much fun as this one. But they can't all be about Foale &...

Before the outbreak of WWII, French fashion represented the very pinnacle of style, and French women the epitome of chic. At home and abroad, couturiers wealthy clients eagerly awaited the latest collections, and design houses throughout the world looked...

Modern Macram Style is the ultimate guide into the world of macram for beginners. Macram expert Amaia Martin, from La Terra Macram , has created 20 unique projects to introduce you to this millenary art and make you fall in love with it! You...

Among the great designers at Herman Miller in the 1950s and 1960s, Alexander Girard enhanced Eames' and Nelson's furniture with innovative textiles. As head of Herman Miller's Textile Division since it was formed in 1952, he designed some of the most...

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,...

Costumes designed and made for devised or physical drama, for contemporary circus or for dance, differ radically from the more traditional costume work produced for naturalistic performance. For those working in the field - whether professional or...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857238555Author Loro PianaFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1450g

From her Disney days to red carpet glamour, Zendaya's meteoric rise has been littered with impeccable style.Certified fashion It-girl and global movie star Zendaya has become synonymous with inventive, fresh and unique style. From referencing 2000s...

Textile is at once a language, a concept and a material thing. Philosophers such as Plato, Deleuze and Derrida have notably drawn on weaving processes to illustrate their ideas, and artists such as Ann Hamilton, Louise Bourgeois and Chiharu Shiota...

Make Elegant Scarves, Bags, Caps and Blankets in cozy chunky knits!This book shows you how to use jumbo knitting needles, large crochet hooks, or just your hands and arms, to create fun, trendy accessories for yourself and your home. Even if you're a...

This is a visual record of the British people's habits of dress from the Victorians to Britpop. Social history is reflected in the outfits of the time, from the wartime austerity of the 1940s to the new couture of the 1950s. It takes us on a fascinating...

The Texture of Change examines historical change across a broad region of western Africa-from Saint Louis, Senegal, to Freetown, Sierra Leone-through the development of textile commerce, consumption, and dress. Indigo-dyed and printed cotton, wool,...

From workaday marigolds to hand-wear custom crafted for the Queen, gloves perform many functions - insulation from the cold, protection from injury, and even ceremonial roles. Gloves have been used since prehistoric times, but in Britain their use as...

The moving image has become a key marketing tool for luxury fashion, central in enabling brands to shape their visual codes and extend their brand awareness. Fashion Film is the first detailed study of the shifting shape of fashion imagery in the digital...

Dressays is an anthology of thought-provoking essays exploring how clothing can reveal the complex, deeply felt bonds we have with ourselves, our communities and the worlds through which we move. These deeply personal narratives demonstrate how, whether...

Dressays is an anthology of thought-provoking essays exploring how clothing can reveal the complex, deeply felt bonds we have with ourselves, our communities and the worlds through which we move. These deeply personal narratives demonstrate how, whether...

Exploring the proliferation of makeup as both practice and metaphor across intellectual, visual and material culture, this transnational study involves analysis of French, British, German and Russian art, philosophy, fiction, journalism and advice...

Rebellious, elegant, revolutionary: these are just some of the words to describe Alexander McQueen. One of the most disruptive designers in the fashion world, his designs shocked as much as they wowed, and the impact of the 'enfant terrible of British...

More than a traditional haute couturier, Balenciaga is a fashion powerhouse that continues to shake up the fashion world. Since being founded by Cristobal Balenciaga in 1919, the brand has continuously evolved its designs, ensuring that it remains at the...

The Schiaparelli brand is nothing short of iconic. The Shocking Pink signature says it all: flamboyant yet simple, luxurious but humorous, and always incredibly stylish.The brand blurs the lines between fashion and art - founder Elsa Schiaparelli...

This volume celebrates the brocade textiles, or songket, of Bali. Songket, consisting of supplementary weft-decorated textiles made from imported silk and gold and silver threads, was historically reserved for the ruling elite. Today, these luxurious...