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Shoe Obsession
ISBN: HB: 9780300190793, Yale University Press, February 2013
192 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 200 colour illus.
This fabulously illustrated book explores western culture's fascination with extravagant and fashionable shoes. Over the past decade, shoe design has become increasingly central to fashion, with fashion companies paying ever more attention to shoes a...
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£25,00
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50 Contemporary Fashion Designers You Should Know
ISBN: PB: 9783791347134, Prestel Publishing, September 2012
160 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 150 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
This book of stunning images is an accessible overview of the most important contemporary fashion designers working now. Today's designers are savvier and more daring than ever before. Happy to exist within or outside the established houses of haute...
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£14,99
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Ivy Style Radical Conformists
ISBN: HB: 9780300170559, Yale University Press, September 2012
224 pp., 28x23 cm, 120 colour illus.
Many of the most familiar sartorial images of the 20th century can be traced to the prestigious college campuses of America. The "Ivy League Look", or "Ivy Style", was once a cutting-edge look that for decades led the evolution of menswear. Far more...
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£35,00
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Handbags The Making of a Museum
ISBN: HB: 9780300186185, Yale University Press, August 2012
272 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 350 colour images, 50 black&white illus.
The history of the handbag – its design, how it has been made, used, and worn – reveals something essential about women's lives lived over the last 500 years. Perhaps the most universal item of fashionable adornment, it can also be elusive, an object...
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£30,00
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Freitag Out of the Bag
ISBN: PB: 9783037782781, Lars Muller Publishers, July 2012
280 pp., 17.8x11.6 cm, 320 illus.
With its unique bags made of used materials, the Freitag company of Zurich is now an established commercial success, selling 300,000 of its design products around the world every year. How can a bag achieve that kind of cult status? How did a small,...
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£22,00
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Fashion and Art Collusion
ISBN: HB + CD: 9781861543271, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, June 2012
144 pp., 29.5x22.5 cm, full-colour illus.
What happens when you invite such luminary fashion designers as Stephen Jones or Hussein Chalayan to collaborate with important contemporary artists such as Cerith Wyn Evans or Gavin Turk and ask them to think about the Olympic values of speed, stren...
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£35,00
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Staging Fashion, 1880-1920 Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke
ISBN: PB: 9780300181135, Yale University Press, February 2012
176 pp., 22.2x17.8 cm, 220 colour illus.
Although Jane Hading (1859-1940), Lily Elsie (1886-1962), and Billie Burke (1884-1970) gained fame as stage actresses, their popular appeal also rested on their ability to cultivate a glamorous appearance. Their careers illustrate the early transform...
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£25,00
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What Clothes Reveal The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America
ISBN: PB: 9780300181074, Yale University Press, January 2012
256 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 355 colour images, 36 black&white illus.
Paintings of upper-class men and women tell an important part of the history of costumes, but surviving garments themselves reveal even more. Every crease, stitch, and stain in a piece of clothing supplies information about its wearer and its era. Th...
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£40,00
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100 Shoes
ISBN: PB: 9780300172409, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2011
232 pp., 17.8x25.4 cm, 16 black&white illus., 194 colour illus.
In a brilliant follow-up to "100 Dresses", published in 2010, the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum once again opens the vaults of its renowned permanent collection to introduce readers to the rich diversity of shoes within its holdings. T...
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£19,99
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Daphne Guinness
ISBN: HB: 9780300176636, Yale University Press, September 2011
192 pp., 28x23 cm, 100 colour illus.
"She is one of the – if not the – most stylish women living", says designer and film director Tom Ford, speaking of Daphne Guinness, the subject and co-author of this extraordinary book. From her platinum-and-black striped hair to her towering 10-inc...
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£35,00
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