Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail

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This richly illustrated book celebrates the Victoria and Albert Museum's magnificent collection of 19th-century dress. A source of inspiration to many of today's top designers, these colorful items of clothing, seen here in glorious close-up, will delight all lovers of fashion, both historical and contemporary.

Some 150 pieces capture the opulence and variety of this era, from delicate embroidery on neoclassical gowns to the vibrant colors of crinolines and... More >>

Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail

Textile Designs: Two Hundred Years of European and American Patterns for Printed Fabrics Organized by Motif, Style, Color, Layout, and Period

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"Textile Designs is a dazzling, informative fabric encyclopedia of archival beauty. It is a necessary tool for the fashion industry, schools, and libraries." —Women's Wear Daily "An iconography of textile motifs and a vocabulary of pattern. . . . Highly recommended." —Choice Never before have printed textiles been celebrated in a book of this magnitude. Now in paperback, Textile Designs is the indispensable sourcebook for the colorful patterned ma... More >>

Textile Designs: Two Hundred Years of European and American Patterns for Printed Fabrics Organized by Motif, Style, Color, Layout, and Period

Fashion Design Course

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In this book, students will learn various methods of designing fashion, how to create and use inspirations, how fabric and colour strengthen a designers viewpoint, how to create dynamic fabric stories that form well-merchandized groups, and how to refine their own vision as a fashion designer. By mastering key principles, students will develop and refine their creativity and increase their understanding of what makes a successful design. In these pages, assignments ... More >>

Fashion Design Course

Sweater Surgery: How to Make New Things with Old Sweaters

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Contemporary crafters are thriving on personalizing, modifying, and altering fashion as not only hobbies but as a lifestyleWhy repurpose your sweaters? Because you can't buy sweater fabric by the yard. Sweaters get damaged or go out of style but we still love the prints, colors, and textures. You don't have time to knit it from scratch. It's ecologically correct. And most of all--it's fun!Sweater Surgery shows you how to upcycle all your slightly worn, slight... More >>

Sweater Surgery: How to Make New Things with Old Sweaters

Survey of Historic Costume

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In the Preface of the 5th Edition of Survey of Historic Costume, Tortora and Eubank conclude
with the following: In the history of dress at the beginning of the 21st century,
costume might be compared to a constantly moving river. This river divides into many narrower
channels that separate, cross, come together, and separate again, and yet that river
continually moves on. Building on the previous editions, the authors update their analysis
of Western... More >>

Survey of Historic Costume

Basics Fashion Design: Developing a Collection

• ISBN13: 9782940373956
• Condition: New
• Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

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Fashion collections vary depending on market level, product type, season, customer and retail outlets. "Basics Fashion Design: Developing a Collection" teaches the process from initial design ideas through development of product to the final outcome and its ultimate exhibition and sale, and includes an overview of fashion collections through the eyes of prominent fashion journalists.... More >>

Basics Fashion Design: Developing a Collection

Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed

• ISBN13: 9780300103120
• Condition: New
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Over time and across cultures, extraordinary manipulations of the body have occurred in a continuing evolution of the concept of beauty. Fashion can be seen as the practice of some of the most extreme strategies to conform to shifting concepts of the physical ideal. Various zones of the body--the neck, the shoulders, the bust, the waist, the hips, and the feet--have been constricted, padded, truncated, or extended through subtle visual adjustments of proportion, les... More >>

Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed

The Beauty of Color: The Ultimate Beauty Guide for Skin of Color

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From the beloved fashion icon and cosmetics entrepreneur, the first book to embrace global beauty and women of all ethnicities.

Few faces are as instantly recognizable as that of Iman's. She's been a groundbreaking supermodel for the world's top designers and a muse for photographers, and she is the founder of the world's most popular cosmetic brand for skin of color.

Now, in an era when the face of beauty has changed-and the most celebrated w... More >>

The Beauty of Color: The Ultimate Beauty Guide for Skin of Color

Draping for Apparel Design

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This text combines step-by-step instructions illustrated to present the principles and
methods of draping. Author Helen Joseph-Armstrong incorporates three draping techniques
manipulating dart excess, adding fullness, and contour draping in design
projects featured throughout the text. Projects begin with a draping plan and fashion
drawing to identify its creative elements, and determine the draping technique required.
The author describes the drape ... More >>

Draping for Apparel Design

Pants for Real People: Fit and Sew for Any Body

• ISBN13: 9780935278576
• Condition: New
• Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

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This pattern book features step-by-step instructions on fitting and sewing pants for women of all different body types using the twin techniques of tissue- and fabric-fitting. Important sewing choices are highlighted, including choosing fabrics, selecting appropriate alteration tools, and finding styles that are most flattering. The fit-as-you-sew process of making pants is illustrated with progressive photographs of fitting pants for nine women of different size an... More >>

Pants for Real People: Fit and Sew for Any Body

Wrapped in Crochet: Scarves, Wraps, & Shawls

• Dimensions: 10.25 in. h x 8.5 in. w x 0.4 in. d
• Weight: 1.06 ounces
• Made in US

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Learn to create stylish scarves, wraps, and shawls with this fresh approach to technique and construction that includes a variety of projects for a range of skill levels and varying time commitments. Featuring new and fashionable designs, this book of innovative projects is perfect for new and intermediate crocheters who want to take crochet to next level with clever stitch motifs, new techniques to shaping, and creative embellishment ideas, such as unusual edgings... More >>

Wrapped in Crochet: Scarves, Wraps, & Shawls