Fashion Visionaries by Linda Watson
55.00 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles | Series: Visionaries
Featuring 75 of the world's most legendary designers, this book presents the story of fashion through the fascinating personal lives and innovative collections that have shaped the field over the past century. Arranged in a broadly chronological order, this compelling book outlines the impact that inven ...Show more
Giorgio Armani by Giorgio Armani
275.00 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles
A comprehensive celebration of the fashions of one of the world s most revered designers. On the eve of the company s fortieth anniversary, this lavish book focuses upon the key creations and important milestones in the history of the celebrated Italian designer and his eponymous fashion house. With per ...Show more
The Coat Route: Craft, Luxury, and Obsession on the trail of a $50,000 coat by Meg Lukens Noonan
27.99 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles
In today's world of fast fashion, is there a place for a handcrafted $50,000 coat? To answer that question, Meg Noonan unravels the story of the coat's provenance. Her journey takes readers to the Sydney studio of John Cutler, a fourth-generation tailor who works magic with scissors and thread; to the r ...Show more
William Morris Textiles by Linda Parry
69.99 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles | Reading Level: General Adult
William Morris Textiles was the first comprehensive survey of the many hundreds of original, colourful textiles produced by William Morris and the two commercial companies he founded and managed. To this day it remains the authority in the field, and this revised edition has been completely rewritten an ...Show more
Fabulous Frocks by Sarah Gristwood
27.99 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles
No item of clothing has endured for longer than the dress. Yet the last century alone has seen the most radical changes of style - hemlines swinging from ankle to thigh; outlines alternating between the body-hugging and the bell - and our fascination with the 'frock' has not gone away. From Gres' drapin ...Show more
Out of Shape: Debunking Myths About Fashion Sizing and Fit by Mel Campbell
24.95 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles
I'm in a change room, flailing around with a dress stuck over my head, trying desperately not to alert the sales assistant to my struggles. Not every change-room experience is as humiliating as this, but the frequent frustrations and 'bad fits' are like loose threads threatening to unravel the self-este ...Show more
The Wedding Dress: 300 Years of Bridal Fashions by Edwina Ehrman
49.99 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles
Published in paperback to accompany a major V&A exhibition, this sumptuous book draws on wedding garments in the V&A's collection, photographs, letters, memoirs, newspaper accounts and genealogical research to explore the history of the wedding dress and the traditions that have developed around ...Show more
Elsa Schiaparelli's Private Album by Marisa Berenson
95.00 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles
Elsa Schiaparelli is regarded as one of the most important artist-couturiers and taste-makers of the 20th century. A genuine influence on the style of her times, she numbered among her collaborators and friends the artists Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau, Christian Berard and Marcel Vertes. S ...Show more
Food Fashion Love by Fleur Wood; Kristina Ammitzboll (Contribution by)
59.99 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles
Tumble down the rabbit hole and into the wild and whimsical world of Fleur Wood, one of Australia's leading fashion designers and an enthusiastic home cook. Discover what inspires, motivates, and sustains her, from flower-scented baths and tisanes to old-fashioned portraits, love-heart lockets, and food ...Show more
Fashion in the 70s - The Definitive Sourcebook by Charlotte Fiell
59.99 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles
Whereas the 1970s opened with a fashion hangover from the 1960s, with looks such as mini skirts, bell-bottom trousers and the hippie look still enduring, the decade soon took on its own sartorial identity. The most prominent trends were the peasant look, glam (influenced by glam rock) and disco, popular ...Show more
Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations by Harold Koda
59.95 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles | Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art S.
Although separated by time, Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli - both Italian, both feminists - share striking affinities in terms of their design strategies and fashion manifestoes. Presented as an intimate "conversation", "Schiaparelli and Prada" aims to tease out formal and conceptual similarities b ...Show more
100 New Fashion Designers by Hywel Davies
25.95 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles
The fashion industry has always celebrated innovative design, and young, talented fashion designers can make a huge impact as they explore new ideas and push boundaries. This book showcases the diverse and unique work of the best 100 new creatives in fashion design from around the world. As well as pinp ...Show more