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Helena Rubinstein Beauty is Power

Klein Mason

ISBN: HB: 9780300195569, Yale University Press, November 2014
192 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

Helena Rubinstein (1870-1965) broke free from the constraints of her 19th-century, small-town Polish Jewish background to become a cosmetics industry giant and household name. She produced and marketed the means for ordinary women to transform themse...

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Exposed A History of Lingerie

Hill Colleen, Steele Valerie

ISBN: HB: 9780300208863, Yale University Press, November 2014
172 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 80 colour illus.

Lingerie is a subject of enduring fascination. As the final barrier to the fully nude body, it is simultaneously modest and erotic. This compelling and eye-catching publication surveys lingerie from the mid-18th century to the present, covering a bro...

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Fashion

Dance and Fashion

Steele Valerie, Davis Mary, Hill Colleen, Marra Melissa, McClendon Emma, Mears Patricia, Monden Masafumi, Rasche Adelaide, Way Elizabeth, Winestein Anna

ISBN: HB: 9780300208856, Yale University Press, October 2014
224 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 150 colour illus.

Dress and adornment have long played an important role in the visual allure of dance, and fashion designers have often been inspired by the way dancers look. The tutus and pointe shoes of the Romantic ballerina, for example, have influenced designers...

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Fabrics in Fashion Design The Way Successful Fashion Designers Use Fabrics

Sposito Stefania

ISBN: PB: 9788415967057, Hoaki, September 2014
336 pp., 22.8x22.8 cm, richly illustrated

Fabrics are the base for the world of fashion: they determine the way designers conceive their pieces and their creativity. This title is the ultimate reference guide to all the major types of fabric in use today. This book is a bridge uniting materi...

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Killer Heels The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe

Small Lisa

ISBN: HB: 9783791353807, Prestel Publishing, September 2014
224 pp., 30.5x24 cm, 223 colour illus.

This gorgeous book explores the fashion world's most coveted and iconic object – the high-heeled shoe. "Killer Heels" explores the rich cultural history of the high heel and its relation to power, fantasy, sexuality, and identity. More than 160 spec...

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Fashion

Fashion that Changed the World

Croll Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9783791347899, Prestel Publishing, September 2014
192 pp., 24x19.3 cm, 160 colour illus.

This book is the perfect fashion accessory – a sumptuous, exquisitely designed exploration of the most influential fashion icons, ideas, designers, pieces, and trends from throughout history. What did Vogue's first cover look like? When did film sta...

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Painting and Drawing Manuals

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Fashion Drawing Course From Human Figure to Fashion Illustration

Baeza Juan

ISBN: PB: 9788415967064, Hoaki, August 2014
208 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, richly illustrated

Designers need to draw the human body in movement and they must take into account the relationship between the human body, the materials and the shape of the clothing at the same time. This book is a through study on the techniques for drawing the hu...

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Charles James Beyond Fashion

Koda Harold, Reeder Jan Glier, Rucci Ralph, Scaturro Sarah, Petersen Glenn

ISBN: HB: 9780300204360, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2014
300 pp., 33x25.4 cm, 300 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Charles James, often considered to be America's first couturier, was renowned in the 1940s and 1950s as a master at sculpting fabric for the female form and creating fashions that defined mid-century glamour. Although James had no formal training as...

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Tokyo Adorned

Card Thomas C.

ISBN: HB: 9781861543479, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, March 2014
132 pp., 38x30.5 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

A celebration of Tokyo and its thriving fashion subculture, this book takes its subjects off the city streets to focus on the personalities behind the clothing and capturing the magnetic culture of the city's fashion tribes. Included are Kumamiki –...

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Photography

Fashion

Memory of My Wardrobe

Taavitsainen Ida

ISBN: HB: 9781861543462, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, January 2014
112 pp., 21x15 cm, full-colour illus.

"The Memory of My Wardrobe", a project by Finnish photographer Ida Taavitsainen, explores the personal narratives given to clothing inherited or simply handed down to her by her family. Over the years, she acquired a lot of clothes, many once belongi...

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