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Dressing Dangerously Dysfunctional Fashion in Film
ISBN: HB: 9780300184389, Yale University Press, November 2013
320 pp., 28x24 cm, 50 colour images, 200 black&white illus.
When Marlene Dietrich makes her entrance in Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright, the Dior dress she wears immediately draws the viewer's attention – not because of its designer label, but owing to the dramatic blood stains ruining its stylish surface. Fa...
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£45,00
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Exhibiting Fashion Before and After 1971
ISBN: HB: 9780300125795, Yale University Press, October 2013
192 pp., 29.7x24 cm, 100 colour images, 50 black&white illus.
With the dramatic increase in popularity of fashion exhibitions over the past decade, this groundbreaking book provides a timely look at the evolution of the practice, taking as its anchor the seminal 1971 Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition "Fashi...
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£35,00
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Cooking Couture Fashion Is Served
ISBN: HB: 9788831715034, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2013
160 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 197 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! What happens when cuisine blends with haute couture. Can you describe an item of clothing in terms of its flavor, its odor? Or the taste of a fabric, that desire which makes your mouth water? Sampling a dish of the latest c...
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£35,00
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Mechanical Smile Modernism and the First Fashion Shows in France and America, 1900-1929
ISBN: HB: 9780300189537, Yale University Press, May 2013
400 pp., 28x23 cm, 80 colour images, 170 black&white illus.
In the early 20th century, the desire to see clothing in motion flourished on both sides of the Atlantic: models tangoed, slithered, swaggered, and undulated before customers in couture houses and department stores. "The Mechanical Smile" traces the...
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£40,00
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Punk Chaos to Couture
ISBN: PB: 9780300191851, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2013
224 pp., 25x15 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
Since its origins in the 1970s, punk has had an incendiary influence on fashion. With its eclectic mixing of stylistic references, punk effectively introduced the postmodern concept of bricolage not only into directional ready-to-wear but also into t...
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£19,99
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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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