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Japanese Dress in Detail by Josephine Rout; Anna Jackson (As told to)
Category: Fashion
A unique insight into the history and key themes of Japanese dress from the eighteenth century to the present, Japanese Dress in Detail reveals the elaborate embroidery, precise folds, and sophisticated dyes that form some of the most beautiful garments in the Victoria and Albert Museum's unparalleled J ...Show more
Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk by Anna Jackson (Editor)
Category: Fashion
The rich, complex, and beautiful kimono The kimono--worn by women, men, and children--is the ultimate signifier of Japan: revered withinthe country as the embodiment of national culture and regarded internationally as an exoticfascination. Often viewed as a simple, unchanging garment, the kimono has bee ...Show more
Kimono - The Art and Evolution of Japanese Fashion by Anna Jackson (Editor); Anna Jackson; Nagasaki Iwao
Category: Fashion
In traditional Japanese dress, the surface of the garment is most important. The T-shaped, straight-seamed, front-wrapping kimono has changed its shape very little over the centuries, but the weaving, dyeing, and embroidery used to decorate its surface make each a unique, wearable work of art. Choice of ...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
Textiles of Japan - The Thomas Murray Collection by Thomas Murray + Virginia Soensksen + Anna Jackson
Category: Art
From rugged Japanese firemen's ceremonial robes and austere rural work-wear to colorful, delicately-patterned cotton kimonos, this lavishly illustrated volume explores Japan's rich tradition of textiles. Textiles are an eloquent form of cultural expression and of great importance in the daily life of ...Show more
The Bed-Making Competition: Viva La Novell Winner 2 by Anna Jackson
Category: Fiction
From teenage rebellion to the most painful of goodbyes, The Bed-making Competition chronicles the coming of age of Hillary and Bridgid. Told over five sections, each separated by years and kilometres, we follow the sisters as they manage abandonment, motherhood, illness and the ineffable connections of ...Show more
V&A Pattern: Kimono by Anna Jackson
Category: Design | Series: V&a Patterns Ser.
A source of inspiration for designers from Antony Gormley to Alexander McQueen, the Victoria and Albert Museum's rich and extraordinarily diverse collections include some of the greatest names and styles in design history as well as countless brilliant but anonymous works. Now elegantly repackaged, V&a ...Show more
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