Drag: The Complete Story by Simon Doonan
Category: Fashion
Drag is transformation, communication and, above all, exaggeration, where gender non-conformity is the plat du jour. This fearless book observes this increasingly complex world by exploring drag's journey - from the surprising, to the sophisticated, to the utterly bizarre - through the twentieth century ...Show more
King of Fashion - The Autobiography of Paul Poiret by Paul Poiret
Category: Fashion | Series: V&a Fashion Perspectives Ser.
Paul Poiret (1879-1944) led the fashion world in the first decades of the 20th century. His autobiography tells the story of the meteoric rise of a draper's son to the "King of Fashion." From his humble Parisian childhood, to his debut as a couturier, to his experiences during World War I, Poiret reveal ...Show more
Ralph Lauren: in His Own Fashion by Alan Flusser
Category: Fashion
A fully illustrated biography of iconic American designer Ralph Lauren told through the lens of fashionFrom the author of Dressing the Man, the seminal tome on men's fashion, comes the illustrated biography of Ralph Lauren. Published in time for Lauren's 80th birthday on October 14, 2019, Alan Flusser's ...Show more
Sharp Suits - A Celebration of Men's Tailoring by Eric Musgrave
Category: Fashion
Clothes maketh the man--discover the fascinating history and evolution of the modern suit from the late 17th century to date. "A fascinating, richly illustrated history of suits." -- Esquire magazine "Few coffee-table books are so beautifully illustrated or as researched." -- GQ magazine For millions ...Show more
Couture Conversations - Twentieth Century Fashion Icons in Their Own Words by Pamela Goblin
Category: Fashion
Vionnet, Chanel, Dior, Saint Laurent, McQueen- these names define haute couture, and long after the designers have passed away, their influence on fashion continues to be profound. In an exceptional compilation of the original words of these couturiers, Couture Conversations provides a unique and in-dep ...Show more
Little Guides to Style: The Story of Four Iconic Fashion Houses by Emma Baxter-Wright, Karen Homer, Laia Farran Graves
Category: Fashion
With images of the four houses' most timeless and celebrated designs, plus captivating text on the personalities and lives of the creative geniuses behind the brands, Little Box of Style is the quintessential collection that will delight any fashion lover.
Fashion Drive Extreme Clothing in the Visual Arts by Catherine Hug and Christoph Becker
Category: Fashion
How have artists reacted to such creations as slashed clothing, codpieces, the crinoline or the dinner jacket? Fashion is an economic index as well as a seismograph of social sensitivities--an expression of longing and an instrument for mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. In the modern age of global ...Show more
Designers and Jewellery 1850-1940 - Jewellery and Metalwork from the Fitzwilliam Museum by Helen Ritchie
Category: Fashion
The Fitzwilliam Museum holds stunning examples of jewellery and metalwork from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This exceptional period of design covers the neo-Gothic and historicist designs of the 1850s and 1860s, the ground-breaking work of British Arts & Crafts designers, sinuo ...Show more
Kimono - The Art and Evolution of Japanese Fashion by Anna Jackson
Category: Fashion
The Khalili Collection of kimono, which was carefully photographed for this book, comprises more than two hundred garments and spans almost three hundred years of Japanese textile artistry; it brilliantly exhibits the remarkable creativity of designers who used the surface of garments to produce a weara ...Show more
The Art of the Black Dress - Over 30 Ways to Wear Black Dresses by Libby VanderPloeg (Illustrator); Hardie Grant
Category: Fashion
The LBD - or 'little black dress' - debuted over 70 years ago by legend Coco Chanel and is still a perennial fashion staple. As most women know, it's impossible to have a 'nothing to wear' crisis with this trusty item in your wardrobe.The Art of the Black Dress celebrates this essential wardrobe item, o ...Show more
Valentino Mirabilia Romae by Laziz Hamani
Category: Fashion
Valentino: Mirabilia Romae brings readers into creative directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli s extraordinary world of inspiration, revealing their vision of the Valentino woman, exploring the Eternal City that fuels their passion and creativity, and explaining their impact and contribut ...Show more
Plant-Based Beauty by Jess Arnaudin
Category: Fashion
The essential guide to detoxing your beauty routine.Plant-based beauty is part of a growing global movement that is not just about the food we eat but the choices we make when it comes to what we wear and the beauty products we use. We are more aware than ever that our personal actions have an effect bo ...Show more