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Fashion Criticism: An Anthology Professor Francesca Granata (Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA) 9781350058811
SciFier: $176.70This 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... -
Fashion, Agency, and Empowerment: Performing Agency, Following Script Annette Lynch (School of Applied Human Sciences. University of Northern Iowa, USA) 9781350058262
RRP: $207.90SciFier: $201.93Fashion 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) 9781350022881
SciFier: $53.39Teaching 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... -
Japan beyond the Kimono: Innovation and Tradition in the Kyoto Textile Industry Jenny Hall 9781350095410
SciFier: $217.33In 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... -
The Fashion Show: History, theory and practice Gill Stark 9781472568489
RRP: $64.24SciFier: $59.18Take up your all-access pass to one of the most dynamic areas of the international fashion industry. Lavishly illustrated and packed with industry insights, The Fashion Show is the must-have guide to... -
Digital Architecture Beyond Computers: Fragments of a Cultural History of Computational Design Roberto Bottazzi (University of Westminster, UK) 9781474258135
SciFier: $185.20Digital Architecture Beyond Computers explores the deep history of digital architecture, tracing design concepts as far back as the Renaissance and connecting them with the latest software used by... -
3D Printing for Artists, Designers and Makers Professor Stephen Hoskins (University of the West of England, UK) 9781474248679
RRP: $62.35SciFier: $55.47Fully revised and with a new chapter and international case studies, this second edition of the best-selling book traces how artists and designers continue to adapt and incorporate 3D printing... -
The Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon: Global Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Difference Gilane Tawadros (Stuart Hall Foundation, London, UK) 9781501363337
SciFier: $53.39Built upon the politics of difference, The Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon examines artistic practice through an international lens. This vibrant collection of essays and writings - produced in... -
Sewing Techniques by Jennifer Prendergast
SciFier: $59.31Sewing techniques are sometimes overlooked in the design process but acquiring these skills can be transformational. The ability to turn a two-dimensional design into its three-dimensional... -
Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads: Journeys between East and West, Past and Present Sarah E. Braddock Clarke (Falmouth University, UK) 9781350099333
SciFier: $78.13With over 200 color illustrations, Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads examines in detail the eclectic iconography of the Byzantine period and its impact on design and creativity today. Through an... -
Cultural Threads by Professor Jessica Hemmings (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
SciFier: $83.16Cultural Threads considers contemporary artists and designers who work at the intersection of cultures and use textiles as their vehicle. Ideas about belonging to multiple cultures, which can result... -
Stitching the Self: Identity and the Needle Arts Johanna Amos (Queen's University, Ontario, Canada) 9781350242418
SciFier: $66.13The 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... -
Fashion Film: Art and Advertising in the Digital Age Professor Nick Rees-Roberts (Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle, France) 9780857857002
SciFier: $61.35The 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... -
Fashion Sewing: Advanced Techniques by Connie Amaden-Crawford (Fashion Patterns by Coni, USA)
SciFier: $64.71Fashion Sewing: Advanced Techniques guides the reader through a range of intermediate and advanced skills, such as tailoring, sewing with knits, inserting linings and facings and how to sew a wide... -
Motion Illustration by Adam Osgood
SciFier: $66.77Motion Illustration is a broad introduction to the emerging world of moving illustrations, written specifically for those coming from an illustration background. Bridging together illustration... -
Shaping Femininity by Sarah Bendall (Australian Catholic University, Australia)
RRP: $54.79SciFier: $54.77Highly Commended, Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Book Prize 2022 In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured... -
3D Printing Design by Francis Bitonti (Digital Arts and Humanities Research Center at Pratt Institute and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture, USA)
SciFier: $166.30To work with the materials of tomorrow, design students across visual arts disciplines need to understand the cutting edge of today. Whether you're modelling in interiors, designing in fashion or... -
Picturing the Woman-Child: Fashion, Feminism and the Female Gaze Morna Laing (Parsons Paris, France) 9781350214385
SciFier: $65.45The childlike character of ideal femininity has long been critiqued by feminists, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Simone de Beauvoir. Yet, women continue to be represented as childlike in the western... -
Wearing the Niqab by Anna Piela (Northwestern University, USA)
SciFier: $64.24Bringing niqab wearers' voices to the fore, discussing their narratives on religious agency, identity, social interaction, community, and urban spaces, Anna Piela situates women's accounts firmly... -
Picturing the Woman-Child: Fashion, Feminism and the Female Gaze Morna Laing (Parsons Paris, France) 9781350059580
SciFier: $197.49The childlike character of ideal femininity has long been critiqued by feminists, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Simone de Beauvoir. Yet, women continue to be represented as childlike in the western... -
Fashioning Professionals by Leah Armstrong (University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria)
SciFier: $69.91From artist to curator, couturier to fashion blogger, 'creative' professional identities can be viewed as social practices, enacted, performed and negotiated through the media, the public, and... -
Fashion in European Art: Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1925 Justine De Young 9781788314480
SciFier: $57.25Fashion reveals not only who we are, but whom we aspire to be. From 1775 to 1925, artists in Europe were especially attuned to the gaps between appearance and reality, participating in and often... -
Queering the Subversive Stitch: Men and the Culture of Needlework Joseph McBrinn (University of Ulster, UK) 9781472578044
SciFier: $59.31The history of men's needlework has long been considered a taboo subject. This is the first book ever published to document and critically interrogate a range of needlework made by men. It reveals... -
Construction for Fashion Design by Professor Anette Fischer
RRP: $49.12SciFier: $43.87Construction is the foundation of fashion design; it takes passion and great skill to turn a two-dimensional drawing into a successful garment. Construction for Fashion Design guides readers... -
Concentrationary Memories: Totalitarian Terror and Cultural Resistance Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds, UK) 9781350229174
SciFier: $62.67Concentrationary Memories has, as its premise, the idea at the heart of Alain Resnais's film Night and Fog (1955) that the concentrationary plague unleashed on the world by the Nazis in the 1930s and... -
Transorientalism in Art, Fashion, and Film: Inventions of Identity Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781350060142
SciFier: $196.54Combining transnationalism and exoticism, transorientalism is the new orientalism of the age of globalization. With its roots in earlier times, it is a term that emphasizes alteration, mutation, and... -
Spacewear: Weightlessness and the Final Frontier of Fashion Barbara Brownie 9781350000322
SciFier: $196.54Today, 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... -
Transorientalism in Art, Fashion, and Film: Inventions of Identity Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781350175334
SciFier: $68.02Combining transnationalism and exoticism, transorientalism is the new orientalism of the age of globalization. With its roots in earlier times, it is a term that emphasizes alteration, mutation, and... -
Patternmaking History and Theory Dr Jennifer Grayer Moore 9781350227804
SciFier: $66.13Fashion 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... -
Network Nature: The Place of Nature in the Digital Age Richard Coyne (Edinburgh College of Art, UK) 9781350136717
SciFier: $69.91How do people avoid the stresses of the digital age? Urban dwellers must now turn to nature to recover, restore and rebalance after the stresses brought on by relentless digital connectivity. It is... -
Teaching Fashion Studies Dr Holly M. Kent (University of Illinois-Springfield, USA) 9781350022874
RRP: $179.55SciFier: $111.77Teaching 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... -
Inside the Royal Wardrobe by Kate Strasdin (Falmouth University, UK)
SciFier: $57.25Queen Alexandra used clothes to fashion images of herself as a wife, a mother and a royal: a woman who both led Britain alongside her husband Edward VII and lived her life through fashion. Inside the... -
Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century Serena Dyer (De Montfort University, UK) 9781350126961
SciFier: $66.77Eighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women's material experiences and practices, Material Lives offers a new perspective on... -
Consumptive Chic by Professor Carolyn A. Day (Furman University, USA)
SciFier: $61.35During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing out... -
Concentrationary Imaginaries: Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds, UK) 9781350229556
SciFier: $61.35In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the... -
Picturing the Beautiful Game: A History of Soccer in Visual Culture and Art Dr. Daniel Haxall (Associate Professor of Art History, Kutztown University, USA) 9781350435773
SciFier: $62.35The world's most popular sport, soccer, has long been celebrated as "the beautiful game" for its artistry and aesthetic appeal. Picturing the Beautiful Game: A History of Soccer in Visual Culture and... -
Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid by Dr Pam Inder (Independent Scholar, UK)
SciFier: $64.24The dressmaking trade developed rapidly during the 18th and 19th centuries, changing the lives of thousands of British workers. Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid focuses on the trade and the people... -
Time in Fashion: Industrial, Antilinear and Uchronic Temporalities Caroline Evans 9781350146938
SciFier: $71.59Few phenomena embody the notion of time as well as fashion. Fast-moving and rooted in the 'now', it's constantly creating its own past through the process of rapid style change. Uniquely poised... -
Fashion, History, Museums by Julia Petrov (Royal Alberta Museum, Canada)
SciFier: $69.53This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. "A remarkable resource... -
Contemporary Indonesian Fashion by Dr Alessandra Lopez y Royo (SOAS University of London, UK)
RRP: $60.46SciFier: $36.57Indonesian fashion has undergone a period of rapid growth over the last three decades. This book explores how through years of social, political, and cultural upheaval, the country's fashion has...