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Ottoman Dress and Design in the West by Charlotte A. Jirousek
RRP: $33.49SciFier: $28.05Ottoman Dress and Design in the West is a richly illustrated exploration of the relationship between West and Near East through the visual culture of dress. Charlotte Jirousek examines the history of... -
The Grace of Four Moons by Pravina Shukla
RRP: $42.88SciFier: $36.15Because clothing, food, and shelter are basic human needs, they provide excellent entries to cultural values and individual aesthetics. Everyone gets dressed every day, but body art has not received... -
Isaac Mizrahi by Chee Pearlman
RRP: $43.55SciFier: $25.46A landmark survey of the work of Isaac Mizrahi, a trailblazing and influential American fashion designer, artist, and entrepreneur Beginning with Isaac Mizrahi's first fashion collection, which... -
Tribal Rugs by Brian MacDonald
RRP: $66.93SciFier: $65.12Tribal Rugs: Treasures of the Black Tent is the definitive work on this subject. Dedicated to one of the most ancient crafts of the world, this book leads its reader through the history of the tribal... -
Japanese Fashion Designers: The Work and Influence of Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamotom, and Rei Kawakubo Professor Bonnie English (Late of Griffith University, Australia) 9781847883117
SciFier: $145.38Over the past 40 years, Japanese designers have led the way in aligning fashion with art and ideology, as well as addressing identity and social politics through dress. They have demonstrated that... -
A Textile Traveler's Guide to Guatemala by Deborah Chandler
RRP: $30.81SciFier: $23.44The vibrant character of Guatemala is most visible in its handwoven textiles, which are still in everyday use and readily available in native markets all over the country. A Textile Traveler's Guide... -
Draping Basics by Sally DiMarco
SciFier: $140.69With step-by-step written instructions, Draping Basics provides the fundamentals of designing foundation garments by draping fabric on a dress form. Photographs clearly demonstrate the details of the... -
Tailored Fashion Design by Pamela Powell
SciFier: $41.53Tailoring books typically focus on the construction of tailored garments, beginning with the selection of ready-made patterns and concluding with the assembly of the various pieces. Tailored Fashion... -
Japan beyond the Kimono: Innovation and Tradition in the Kyoto Textile Industry Jenny Hall 9781350095410
SciFier: $152.75In the ancient city of Kyoto, contemporary artisans and designers are using heritage techniques and traditional clothing aesthetics to reinvent wafuku (Japanese clothing, including kimono) for modern... -
African Lace-bark in the Caribbean: The Construction of Race, Class, and Gender Steeve O. Buckridge (Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA) 9781350058507
SciFier: $50.91In Caribbean history, the European colonial plantocracy created a cultural diaspora in which African slaves were torn from their ancestral homeland. In order to maintain vital links to their... -
The Hidden History of American Fashion: Rediscovering 20th-century Women Designers Nancy Deihl (New York University, USA) 9781350104075
SciFier: $37.51This book is the first in-depth exploration of the revolutionary designers who defined American fashion in its emerging years and helped build an industry with global impact, yet have been largely... -
The Hidden History of American Fashion: Rediscovering 20th-century Women Designers Nancy Deihl (New York University, USA) 9781350001046
SciFier: $131.98This book is the first in-depth exploration of the revolutionary designers who defined American fashion in its emerging years and helped build an industry with global impact, yet have been largely... -
Fashioning Horror by Julia Petrov (Royal Alberta Museum, Canada)
SciFier: $49.57From Jack the Ripper to Frankenstein, Halloween customs to Alexander McQueen collections, Fashioning Horror examines how terror is fashioned visually, symbolically, and materially through fashion and... -
Fashion, Agency, and Empowerment: Performing Agency, Following Script Annette Lynch (School of Applied Human Sciences. University of Northern Iowa, USA) 9781350058262
RRP: $147.40SciFier: $143.17Fashion has always been strongly linked with the politics of gender and equality. In this global and interdisciplinary collection, leading authors explore the relationships between the dressed body,... -
Teaching Fashion Studies Dr Holly M. Kent (University of Illinois-Springfield, USA) 9781350022874
SciFier: $138.68Teaching Fashion Studies is the definitive resource for instructors of fashion studies at the undergraduate level and beyond. The first of its kind, it offers extensive, practical support for both... -
Fashion Criticism: An Anthology Professor Francesca Granata (Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA) 9781350058811
SciFier: $125.28This is the first anthology of fashion criticism, a growing field that has been too long overlooked. Fashion Criticism aims to redress the balance, claiming a place for writing on fashion alongside... -
The End of Fashion: Clothing and Dress in the Age of Globalization Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781350045040
SciFier: $131.98Attitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means of self-expression, rather than as a signifier of status or profession, and... -
Colors in Fashion Professor Jonathan Faiers (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK) 9781350077409
SciFier: $53.14Color speaks a powerful cultural language, conveying political, sexual, and economic messages that, throughout history, have revealed how we relate to ourselves and our world. This ground-breaking... -
Fashioning the Victorians: A Critical Sourcebook Professor Rebecca Mitchell (University of Birmingham, UK) 9781350023406
SciFier: $45.88Offering a unique anthology of primary texts, this sourcebook opens a window on the writing that shaped and mirrored Victorian fashion, taking us from corsets to crinolines, dandies to decadent 'New... -
Fashion and Materiality: Cultural Practices in Global Contexts Heike Jenss (Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA) 9781350228078
SciFier: $46.89Fashion is intimately tied to the material world. With a focus on diverse cultural practices, this book offers new insights into the dynamic relationships between fashion, bodies, and material... -
The Fashion Forecasters: A Hidden History of Color and Trend Prediction Regina Lee Blaszczyk (University of Leeds, UK) 9781350017160
SciFier: $138.68The fashion business has been collecting and analyzing information about colors, fabrics, silhouettes, and styles since the 18th century - activities that have long been shrouded in mystery. The... -
Fashioning the Victorians: A Critical Sourcebook Professor Rebecca Mitchell (University of Birmingham, UK) 9781350023390
SciFier: $138.68Offering a unique anthology of primary texts, this sourcebook opens a window on the writing that shaped and mirrored Victorian fashion, taking us from corsets to crinolines, dandies to decadent 'New... -
Patternmaking History and Theory Dr Jennifer Grayer Moore 9781350227804
SciFier: $46.89Fashion design is increasingly gaining attention as an important form of cultural expression. However, scholarship has largely focused on specific designers and their finished products. This... -
Carnival to Catwalk: Global Reflections on Fancy Dress Costume Benjamin Linley Wild 9781350014992
SciFier: $131.98Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021 From West African masquerades to Venetian carnivals and New York society galas, fancy dress has long been used to... -
Fashion and Modernism Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) 9781350175327
SciFier: $48.23Art and fashion have long gone hand in hand, but it was during the modernist period that fashion first gained equal value to - and took on the same aesthetic ideals as - painting, film, photography,... -
The End of Fashion: Clothing and Dress in the Age of Globalization Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781350049123
SciFier: $40.19Attitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means of self-expression, rather than as a signifier of status or profession, and... -
Sustainability and the Social Fabric: Europe's New Textile Industries Clio Padovani (University of Southampton, UK) 9781350105775
SciFier: $49.57While the topic of sustainability in textile manufacture has been the subject of considerable research, much of this is limited to a focus on materials and practices and their ecological impact... -
The Dictionary of Fashion History Valerie Cumming 9781350216686
SciFier: $56.56- What is an Apollo knot? - Who wore a Welch wig? - When were Zouave jackets the height of fashion? This new edition of The Dictionary of Fashion History further updates the landmark work of C... -
Spacewear: Weightlessness and the Final Frontier of Fashion Barbara Brownie 9781350000322
SciFier: $138.01Today, we are living in the New Space Age, where mass commercial space travel is almost within our grasp. This otherworldly possibility has opened up new cultural images of space, both real and... -
Crafting Anatomies by Professor Katherine Townsend (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
SciFier: $45.55The human body lies at the centre of our relationship to fashion and textiles. Crafting Anatomies explores how the body has become a catalyst for archival research, creative dialogues and hybrid... -
Cosplay Fabric FX by Julianna Franchini
RRP: $21.43SciFier: $15.37Elevate your costume-making skills to the next level! Julianna Franchini, aka Marquise Cubey, veteran cosplayer and professional costume designer shares little-known painting, dyeing, and... -
Textiles and Gender in Antiquity: From the Orient to the Mediterranean Professor Mary Harlow (University of Leicester, UK) 9781350189737
SciFier: $45.55This volume looks at how the issues of textiles and gender intertwine across three millennia in antiquity and examines continuities and differences across time and space - with surprising resonances... -
Modernizing Costume Design, 1820-1920 Annie Holt 9780367561161
SciFier: $57.43Annie Holt identifies the roots of contemporary Euro-American practices of costume design, in which costumes are an integrated part of the dramaturgy rather than a reflection of an individual... -
Exploring Ancient Textiles: Pushing the Boundaries of Established Methodologies Alistair Dickey 9781789257250
RRP: $48.24SciFier: $46.95Over the past 30 years, research on archaeological textiles has developed into an important field of scientific study. It has greatly benefitted from interdisciplinary approaches, which combine the... -
Guide for Nift/Nid/Iift 2023 by Arihant Experts
RRP: $159.45SciFier: $154.09Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789326194655Author Arihant ExpertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 808Imprint -
Rene Hubert: The Man Who Dressed Filmstars and Airplanes by Andres Janser
RRP: $53.60SciFier: $47.28From the 1920s to the 1960s, Rene Hubert (1895-1976) belonged to the creme de la creme of costume designers. He designed costumes for stars such as Tallulah Bankhead, Ingrid Bergman, Marlon Brando,... -
Cult Media, Fandom, and Textiles by Dr Brigid Cherry
SciFier: $50.91This book is the first to explore handicrafting practiced by media fans, their online fan communities and the multiple meanings they create. Based on in-depth ethnographic research into fans on the... -
Fashion and Celebrity Culture Pamela Church Gibson 9781847883858
SciFier: $152.75The interrelationship between fashion and celebrity is now a salient and pervasive feature of the media world. This accessible text presents the first in-depth study of the phenomenon, assessing the... -
Felt Willow Mullins 9781845204396
SciFier: $60.29From nomads' tents to poodle skirts, from car parts to Christmas tree ornaments, felt is one of the world's oldest and most understated textiles. Felt has developed simultaneously in multiple... -
Creative Textile Art by Karen Woods
RRP: $29.47SciFier: $24.56A general introduction for artists and makers looking to incorporate textiles and textiles techniques into their work. This book introduces you to basic textile techniques and encourages you to...