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Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England: A Feminist Literary History

Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England: A Feminist...

Author: Edith Snook
ISBN: 9780230282858
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded...  Read More >>

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture...

Author: Valerie Steele
ISBN: 9781847888105
Format: Paperback
$94.91

Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of 'fashion' as the cultural construction of the embodied...  Read More >>

Venice Incognito: Masks in the Serene Republic

Venice Incognito: Masks in the Serene Republic

Author: James H. Johnson
ISBN: 9780520267718
Format: Hardback
$140.95

Offers an analysis of masking in Venice city. This title explores the world view of maskers, both during and outside...  Read More >>

The Fairchild Directory of Fashion Schools

The Fairchild Directory of Fashion Schools

Author: Fairchild Books
ISBN: 9781609011826
Format: Paperback
$64.99

One of the most important decisions a student will make is their selection of an educational institution to fit...  Read More >>

Talk About Fashion

Talk About Fashion

Author: Catherine Schwaab ,  Elisabeth Couturier
ISBN: 9782080301697
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Offering a chronology of the trends of the twentieth century, this title introduces thirty designers and their signature...  Read More >>

Textiles: Concepts and Principles

Textiles: Concepts and Principles

Author: Virginia Hencken Elsasser
ISBN: 9781563678448
Format: Paperback
$228.36

Intended for undergraduate programs of colleges and universities that focus on fashion merchandising, fashion design,...  Read More >>

Glamour: Women, History, Feminism

Glamour: Women, History, Feminism

Author: Professor Carol Dyhouse
ISBN: 9781848138612
Format: Paperback
$29.99

This book explores the changing meanings of glamour, its relationship to femininity and fashion, and its place in...  Read More >>

Shaping Sustainable Fashion: Changing the Way We Make and Use Clothes

Shaping Sustainable Fashion: Changing the Way We Make...

Author: Alison Gwilt ,  Timo Rissanen
ISBN: 9781849712415
Format: Hardback
$192.00

The production, use and eventual disposal of most clothing is environmentally damaging, and many fashion and textile...  Read More >>

The Fashion Reader

The Fashion Reader

Author: Linda Welters (University of Rhode Island, USA) ,  Abby Lillethun (Montclair State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781847885890
Format: Paperback
$118.67

A completely revised and expanded new edition of a bestselling textbook, The Fashion Reader is designed for students,...  Read More >>

Shaping Sustainable Fashion: Changing the Way We Make and Use Clothes

Shaping Sustainable Fashion: Changing the Way We Make...

Author: Alison Gwilt ,  Timo Rissanen
ISBN: 9781849712422
Format: Paperback
$49.95

The production, use and eventual disposal of most clothing is environmentally damaging, and many fashion and textile...  Read More >>

Fashion Statements: On Style, Appearance, and Reality

Fashion Statements: On Style, Appearance, and Reality...

Author: R. Scapp ,  B. Seitz
ISBN: 9780230105423
Format: Hardback
$224.40

While there have been scholarly commentaries on the philosophy of fashion, none yet have attempted to engage fashion...  Read More >>

Fashion by Design

Fashion by Design

Author: Janice Greenberg Ellinwood (Marymount University, USA)
ISBN: 9781563678486
Format: Paperback
$246.84

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The Story of Mens Underwear

The Story of Mens Underwear

Author: Shaun Cole
ISBN: 9781859956229
Format: Hardback
$64.69

The aesthetics of the body, valued so much by the Greeks, seem to have rediscovered a prominent place for men. Mirroring...  Read More >>

Story of Underwear: Male and Female

Story of Underwear: Male and Female

Author: Shaun Cole ,  Muriel Barbier
ISBN: 9781844847969
Format: Hardback
$120.00

Featuring two separate works on male and female underwear, this study is full of surprises and powerful reflections...  Read More >>

Figure Poses for Fashion Illustrators: Scan, Trace, Copy: 250 Templates for Professional Results. Includes a CD-ROM with Over 250 Copyright-Free Images.

Figure Poses for Fashion Illustrators: Scan, Trace,...

Author: Sha Tahmasebi
ISBN: 9781438070490
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Art students who plan to work in fashion design will value this unusual book and CD-ROM combination. The book opens...  Read More >>

House of Versace: The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and Survival

House of Versace: The Untold Story of Genius, Murder,...

Author: Deborah Ball
ISBN: 9780307406521
Format: Paperback
$35.00

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Fashion Box

Fashion Box

Author: Antonio Mancinelli ,  Antonio Mancinelli
ISBN: 9780810997547
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Celebrates 16 essential fashion items and showcases photographs of the women who made them iconic and who continue...  Read More >>

Body Arts and Modernity

Body Arts and Modernity

Author: Elizabeth Ewart ,  Michael O'Hanlon
ISBN: 9781907774041
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Contributors to this volume draw together ideas emerging from the anthropology of the body, the Western interest...  Read More >>

The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion

The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural...

Author: Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
ISBN: 9780822348900
Format: Hardback
$224.27

This ethnography of Asian American designers in New Yorks fashion industry explores their relations to the garment...  Read More >>

An Ethnography of Fragrance: The Perfumery Arts of 'Adan/Lahj

An Ethnography of Fragrance: The Perfumery Arts of 'Adan/Lahj...

Author: Dinah Jung
ISBN: 9789004187252
Format: Hardback
$422.40

Based on short ethnographic reports, this book offers a comprehensive and intertwined introduction to the history...  Read More >>

Chanel

Chanel

Author: Jean Leymarie
ISBN: 9780810996946
Format: Hardback
$118.80

"""This fundamental work by Jean Leymarie, which was first published in 1987 and has been long out of print, has...  Read More >>

Man Made Magic - When Science Meets Fashion: The Story of Nylon and Man-made Textiles in Fashion

Man Made Magic - When Science Meets Fashion: The Story...

Author: Ronnie Price
ISBN: 9781907685644
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Two world-wars changed society forever: the status of women, class system, attitudes to sex. Fashion played a key...  Read More >>

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