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Think Valentino: think luxury. Think elegance. This book traces the illustrious career of fashion's most exciting couturier through copious images from his archives, including drawings, magazine editorial shoots, advertisements, portraits, and documentary photographs to provide an in-depth look at the man, his lifestyle, and his genius.

(Hardback)

Vivienne Westwood's jewellery creations in a beautifully produced volume, published in close collaboration with the house and authored by fashion---and Westwood--expert Alexander Fury.

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Alessandro Michele revolutionized Gucci with his eclectic, gender-fluid aesthetic, blending nostalgia, pop culture and philosophy into a maximalist vision. This book explores Michele's impact as a fashion auteur who reshaped contemporary style, identity and fashion storytelling.

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Alessandro Michele revolutionized Gucci with his eclectic, gender-fluid aesthetic, blending nostalgia, pop culture and philosophy into a maximalist vision. This book explores Michele's impact as a fashion auteur who reshaped contemporary style, identity and fashion storytelling.

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This book explores how we theorize about fashion, responding to a new increasing attention to critical theory and philosophy in the fashion industry.

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In a little over twenty years, New York-based fashion designer Thome Browne has decisively and permanently changed the fashion industry. Through his clothes that are rooted in America's distinctive preppie style he has challenged age-old conventions of tailoring by altering proportions and blurring gender boundaries.

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In a little over twenty years, New York-based fashion designer Thome Browne has decisively and permanently changed the fashion industry. Through his clothes that are rooted in America's distinctive preppie style he has challenged age-old conventions of tailoring by altering proportions and blurring gender boundaries.

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

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Cristobal Balenciaga made his name in Paris in the 1940s and 1950s in the golden age of haute couture, and was hailed by Coco Chanel as the only true couturier amongst us, able to design, cut, assemble and sew a dress entirely by himself. This book intends to mark the inauguration of the Balenciaga Museum in Getaria, Guipuzcoa, Spain.

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Lee Miller was a Vogue cover girl, Man Ray's lover, the first photojournalist at the liberation of Dachau and Buchenwald, and one of the important female photographers of the 20th century. This book gives us a wide lens view on Miller's fashion photography. It shows how her fashion photographs were a combination of wit, art and modernist edge.

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Tells the story of sixty years of shoes. This book covers more than 350 leading womens shoes designers and manufacturers, and includes a range of fashionable styles, from trainers to haute couture.

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Slow Fashion offers creatives, entrepreneurs, and ethical consumers alike a glimpse into the innovative world of the eco-concept store movement, sustainable design, and business that puts people, livelihoods and sustainability central to everything they do.

(Hardback, Second Edition)

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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.

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Beautifully illustrated and written with authority, Suit offers new perspectives on this most mundane, and at the same time poetic and beautiful, product of modern culture.

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One Hundred Years after the Sinking of the Titanic, the Sophistication of her Passengers Lives On.

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

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

In this illustrated fashion story, 400 fashion advertisements from the Jim Heimann Collection trace not only the changing trends and silhouettes of the 20th century but also the evolution in their marketing, as fashion developed from an exclusive Parisian salon business into today's global mega-industry.

(Paperback, First Edition, First ed.)

More than 100 selections of day and evening wear from full-color French catalogs produced for the American market document changes in fashion from the stock market crash to the dawn of WWII.

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Compendium defines over 10,000 words associated with wearing apparel and fashion. From bateau necklines to trilbys and vamps, words are grouped alphabetically according to dress parts, fabrics, and other style categories. Over 750 illustrations.

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Egypt, Babylon, Greece up through 19th-century Europe; based on surviving pieces, art work, much more. Includes many clear, measured patterns for reproducing historic costumes. Full text. 595 illustrations.

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Documents one of the premier collections of ethnic belts from around the world. Few publications have focused so specifically on this subject. The title features over 200 belts, buckles, belt-related accessories and the range of materials used, symbolism and craft techniques.

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This definitive publication on Alexander McQueen (1969 - 2010) invites you into the creative mind and world of one of Britain's most brilliant, daring and provocative designers, and the many themes and references that shaped his visionary fashion collections.