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Shows how traditional French fashion has been both disturbed and strengthened by the addition of outside forces such as Kenzo Takada, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo and Hanae Mori. This book provides an in-depth study of the Japanese revolution in Paris fashion and raises provocative questions for the future of the industry.

(Hardback)

Shows how traditional French fashion has been both disturbed and strengthened by the addition of outside forces such as Kenzo Takada, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo and Hanae Mori. This book provides an in-depth study of the Japanese revolution in Paris fashion and raises provocative questions for the future of the industry.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

A classic text on the theory of design.

(Hardback)

The first major study of Britain's pioneering graphic satirist, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (18441925), the first staff political cartoonist on a daily newspaper in Britain, and the first of his kind to be knighted.

(Paperback)

Lessons from and for the creative professions of art, science, design, and engineering: how to live in and with the Plenitude, that dense, knotted ecology of human-made stuff that creates the need for more of itself.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

The legendary leader of fashion luxury retail, Ira Neimark, relays how he and his fashion and merchandising team brought Bergdorf Goodman to its fashion leadership position, and how and why Bergdorf helped build the fashion industry during the late Sixties through the early Nineties, one of the most exciting periods in fashion history.

(Paperback)

Defines a unique period in British youth culture and lifestyle publishing, drawing on oral history, editorial analysis and existing fashion and subcultural theory to chart the emergence of the stylist in the 1980s, an ultimately postmodern role that became key to the production of fashion image.

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Over the past ten years the study of dress history has achieved academic respectability. This book shows how the fields of dress history and dress studies are now benefitting from the adoption of new multi-disciplinary approaches and outlines the full range of these approaches which draw on material culture, ethnography, and cultural studies.

(Hardback)

The Swimsuit: Fashion from Poolside to Catwalk documents the modern swimsuit's trajectory from men's underwear and circus/performance wear to its unique niche in world fashion, providing an historical, sociological and cultural context in which to view the swimsuit.

(Paperback)

The Swimsuit: Fashion from Poolside to Catwalk documents the modern swimsuit's trajectory from men's underwear and circus/performance wear to its unique niche in world fashion, providing an historical, sociological and cultural context in which to view the swimsuit.

(Hardback)

An introduction to textiles, this book shows the range of opportunities for careers in the field.

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An introduction to textiles, this book shows the range of opportunities for careers in the field.

(Hardback, 2nd edition)

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

Threads of globalization is an interdisciplinary volume that brings fashion-specific garments, motifs, materials, and methods of productioninto dialogue with gender and identity in various cultures throughout Asia during the long twentieth century.

(Hardback)

This book fills a gap in the existing literature on the ambivalence of fashion and dress by drawing on a range of women's experiences with their wardrobes and proving empirical data noticeably absent from other studies of women and dress.

(Paperback)

This book fills a gap in the existing literature on the ambivalence of fashion and dress by drawing on a range of women's experiences with their wardrobes and proving empirical data noticeably absent from other studies of women and dress.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

(Paperback)