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A visual journey through the fashion of the decades, showing you how to identify key designers and details and characteristics that define the most influential pieces of the twentieth century (up to and including the 1990s). The book concludes with a shopping guide.

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Tells the story of 'Vision' - a cabinet system created during the 1980s, which went on to become a modern classic. Text in English and Dutch.

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In 1936, Cristobal Balenciaga opened a fashion house in Paris, after fleeing the Spanish civil war; within a couple of seasons he had raised fashion to the level of art

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Shocking, witty and eccentric, the designs of Elsa Schiaparelli are among the most innovative and influential in the history of fashion. Through the photographs and illustrations of 'Vogue' this book presents the enduring legacy of this daring and visionary designer.

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This new Vogue On title follows Versace's unique vision of femininity, from his enormously successful debut line in 1978, to his invention of the supermodel in the Nineties. This book is part of the successful series of branded fashion books with British Vogue with access to its unique archive of photographs and original illustrations.

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The handsome, aristocratic Hubert de Givenchy blended the hallowed traditions of haute couture with a modern sensibility. For 40 years he focused always on purity of line, but combined an artist's eye with a keen entrepreneurial mind.

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Ralph Lauren's designs vividly embody the American Dream and he has risen to become his country's foremost fashion designer. His visionary ability has created a multi-billion-dollar brand, still very successful almost 50 years on.

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From the archives of Vogue, this book charts Vivienne Westwood's career through the decades, as a provocateur, radical thinker and instigator of the most important sartorial statements on the 20th and 21st centuries

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Influential editor Jefferson Hack explores how collaboration and cultural disruption can initiate new formulas for creative communication.

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A beautiful and informative gift book devoted to designs by William Morris that incorporate flowers--a central motif in his oeuvre and one that played a part in the majority of his designs.

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The definitive illustrated history of the cult videogame--a heart-thumping fusion of groundbreaking graphic design, architectural futurism, electronic music, and high-speed racing.

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The most comprehensive, fully illustrated book on women designers ever published - a celebration of more than 200 women product designers from the early twentieth century to the present day

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Charts the most important historical period of the Kashmir shawl's stylistic evolution.

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How do people respond to "how are you" on opposite sides of the pond Do lunch breaks change over distant longitudes Is the boss bigger in Paris or L.A. With the latest book in her best-selling series, Yang Liu distills the obvious and not-so-obvious contrasts between the European and U.S. experience into clever, crisp pictograms.

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The complete monograph of the worlds leading product designer and design entrepreneur.

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An exclusive homage to and retrospective of the iconic fashion designers couture accessories

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A collection of 1,000 symbols and logotypes designed by the Pentagram partners from 1967 to the present.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Drawn from our Illustration Now! series, this book surveys 100 of the makers and shapers of the illustration scene. With featured artists including Istvan Banyai, Mirko Ilic, Anita Kunz, and Christoph Niemann, the international overview provides an invigorating record of the dynamism and diversity of the genre with a self-portrait, portfolio samples, and description for each illustrator.

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A large-scale publication dedicated to the 1950s as captured in the pages of American Vogue. This book is illustrated by fashion's greatest photographs of that period--the era when the magazine became the cultural force it is today.

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Reveals the decorative seams, refined stitching, voluptuous drapery, strict corseting and slashing and stamping that make up some of the garments in the V&A's superlative 19th-century fashion collection. This title gives the reader a unique opportunity to examine historical clothing that is often too fragile to be on display.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

The quest to affirm Americans' need for alcohol and tobacco is a tale of 100 years of advertising intended to seduce consumers to partake in these delicious vices. This catalogue of ads showcases the extensive and abundant campaigns and trends of drinking and smoking in the United States that, for better or worse, explore a vibrant chapter of advertising history.