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Current fashion is a complex phenomenon. In a constant state of constant flux, contemporary fashion combines a mix of the different cultural aspects that inform the modern individual. “Atlas of Fashion Designers” is born out of this proposition, and features a compilation of the most important fashion designers and their work in the past five years, selected from a multi-disciplinary perspective that display the heterogeneous mix of today's fashion...
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In this engaging biography, readers will learn about the creators of several fashion lines, Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen. Follow The Olsens' story from their childhood in California, to their early years as actresses, to their founding of the mary-kateandashley, the Row, and Elizabeth and James fashion lines. Fun facts, a timeline, a glossary, and an index supplement the color photos showcased in this inspiring biography. Aligned to Common Core Standards...
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Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Style is an all-new, original collection of clever, charming, and often hilarious musings from American fashion's biggest designers. The book culls the best pieces of advice and insight from a survey conducted by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) of its 400-plus members, including Diane von Furstenberg, Zac Posen, Betsey Johnson, Narciso Rodriguez, Donna Karan, and Ralph Lauren, among many others. From...
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Hollywood stars have always furthered fashion's cause of seducing the masses into buying designers' clothes by acting as living billboards. Now, red carpet celebrities are no longer content to just advertise and are putting their names on labels that reflect the image they--or their stylists--created. Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Lopez, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sean Combs, and a host of pop, sports, and reality--show stars of the moment are leveraging the...
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"Sydney Wells's perfect life with her wealthy, devoted husband vanishes when he dies suddenly in an accident. Widowed at forty-nine, she discovers he has failed to include her in his will. With Andrew's vicious daughters in control of his estate, and no home or money, Sydney finds a job in fashion, despite her own designer daughters' warnings. Naïve, out of her element, and alone in a world of shady international deals and dishonest people, she is...
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256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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In 'Talk About Fashion', Catherine Schwaab uses her lengthy experience as a fashion journalist to break the subject down into lively and concise sections. The book offers a chronology of the major trends of the 20th century, introducing 30 designers and their signature pieces that define fashion today.
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An indispensable primer for students and first-stop reference for professionals, Form, Fit, and Fashion guides the fashion designer through the entire design process, from conceiving a garment to marketing it. This handbook collects the information and ideas essential to planning and executing fashion projects of every scale and distills them in an easy-to-use format that is compact enough to slip into a tote. Linking six central phases in the cycle...
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An essential primer for students and first-stop reference for professionals, The Fashion Design Reference & Specification Book takes the fashion designer through the entire design process, from conceiving a garment to marketing it. This valuable handbook contains the information and ideas essential to planning and executing fashion projects of every scale and distills them in an easy-to-use format that is compact enough to slip into a tote. Linking...
11) Zoolander
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1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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3-time winner of the Male Model of the Year, Derek, loses out the fourth time to rival Hansen. Now the ridiculously good-looking supermodel must save the world from an evil clothes manufacturer.
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xii, 302 pages ; 24 cm
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"The memoirs of a celebrity costume designer describe her upbringing in the fashionable celebrity circles of her literary parents, her family's artistic but traumatizing approaches to shopping and how the fashion-savvy perspectives of her early years shaped her relationships and career"--NoveList.
14) My journey
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xviii, 363 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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A personal, provocative memoir by the iconic designer includes candid stories about her difficult and isolated childhood, her nearly five-decade career in the fashion industry, her two marriages, her children, and her spiritual life.
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223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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Learning a new discipline is similar to learning a new language; in order to master the foundation of fashion design, you must first master the basic building blocks of its language, the definitions, function, and usage. The Language of Fashion Design provides students and fashion designers with the basic elements of fashion design, divided into twenty-six easy-to-comprehend chapters. This visual reference includes an introductory, historical view...
16) After the ball
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Kate's dream is to design for couturier houses. With the help of a prince of a guy in the shoe department, her grandmother's vintage clothes, and a shocking switch of identities, can Kate expose the evil trio and save her father's company?
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128 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 16 x 16 cm.
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"Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel's signature style and revolutionary approach to design changed women's fashion forever. This beautifully illustrated biography offers an intimate look at the woman behind some of the last century's most iconic designs -- from her impoverished childhood in an orphanage, to her dreams of becoming a singer, to her tumultuous love affairs with Europe's elite."--Page [4] of cover.
18) The dressmaker
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275 pages ; 20 cm
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"A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture -- After twenty years spent mastering the art of dressmaking at couture houses in Paris, Tilly Dunnage returns to the small Australian town she was banished from as a child. She plans only to check on her ailing mother and leave. But Tilly decides to stay, and though she is still an outcast, her lush, exquisite dresses prove irresistible to the prim women of Dungatar. Through her...
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viii, 469 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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A tribute to a cultural icon and the creative director for the storied House of Chanel reveals a side the elusive designer kept private from the world while introducing some of the most unforgettable figures of fashion's inner circle for the past four decades.
Karl Lagerfield, the creative director for the storied House of Chanel for thirty-five years, not only reinvented Chanel, but was reknown for his vivid personal style. Middleton spent years...
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x, 289 pages ; 22 cm
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"This extraordinary memoir of struggle and perseverance offers new ways of envisioning economic equality for everyone -- from a leading activist and fashion pioneer. Aurora James's story is not a "success story." Or at least, it shouldn't be told that way. Having dropped out of high school, struggled with body image, and dabbled in street racing, her eventual arrest might have been her rock bottom. But as a visionary and optimist, that experience...
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