Sew Iconic: How to Make 10 Fabulous Frocks from the Silver Screen

(Paperback)

Sew Iconic allows you to recreate fabulous gowns from the silver screen. The CD included allows you to print a custom-sized pattern, and easy-to-follow instructions show how to assemble each garment, allowing even the novice seamstress to fill her wardrobe with Hollywood glamour.

Advanced Style

(Hardback)

Advanced Style is Ari Seth Cohen's blog-based-ode to the confidence, beauty and fashion that can only be achieved through the experience of a life lived glamourously. It is a collection of street fashion unlike any seen before - focused on the over-60 set in the world's most stylish locales. Inspired by his own grandmother's unique personal style and his own....

The Ambassador Magazine: Promoting Post-war British Textiles and Fashion

(Hardback)

The Ambassador has been described as 'probably the most daring and enterprising trade magazine ever conceived'. This book takes a detailed look at the background and impact of the magazine and the ambitious photo shoots that showcased the latest couture fashions.

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$125.73NZD

Hats: An Anthology

(Paperback)

Hats: An Anthology, now available in paperback, offers an unprecedented view of the world of millinery, drawing on the V&A's extensive collection of hats, Stephen Jones's own archive and iconic headgear from around the globe.

Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950

(Hardback)

This beautiful book presents dynamic photographs by David Hughes of British ballgowns spanning 60 years and includes designs by Alexander McQueen, Bellville Sassoon, Bill Gibb, Erdem, Gareth Pugh, Stella McCartney and Zandra Rhodes.

Basics Design: Format (Second Edition)

(Paperback / softback)

Basics Design: Format explores the entire range of formats available to designers today, from the traditional formats of books, magazines and posters to the emerging new media technologies. Format is critical to design practice as it represents the physical point of contact with the user, affecting how successfully a design's printed or digital information is received. In this completely revised....

Mini Graphics 2: Maximum Impact in a Mini Format

(Hardback)

A stunning eclectic showcase of innovative graphics in a mini format, demonstrating the huge visual impact of small-scale design.....

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Kate Moss: The Making of an Icon

By Christian Salmon(Hardback)

Kate Moss has endured as a bellwether of fashion and pop culture. For years, her image in magazines, on billboards, and on the screen has influenced how women see themselves and their bodies, while setting societal standards for beauty. This title gives her portrait.

Matali Crasset: Works

By Matali Crasset(Hardback)

An innovatively designed monograph on the work of Matali Crasset, one of France's leading product designers. A darling of French industrial design, Matali Crasset has earned critical praise internationally with her unique spaces and products. Ranging from simple, ergonomic kitchen utensils to architecture, her work engages its end users by asking questions on the role design plays in their everyday....

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$98.01NZD

Golden Age Western Comics

By Steven Brower(Hardback)

Millions know and love the legends of Jesse James, Annie Oakley, Davy Crockett and others who settled in the Wild West. The stories of frontiersmen, outlaws, cowboys and Indians are indelibly linked to the spirit of America. Golden Age Western Comics presents a collection of these uniquely American stories as told through a uniquely American medium...the comic book! A loving....

New Fashion Designers' Sketchbooks

By Zarida Zaman(Paperback)

An invaluable resource for fashion students, teachers and designers, this book looks at research sketchbooks and the role they play in the research and design process. This book demonstrates how ideas are constructed, for single garments and entire collections, and looks at how pages and whole sketchbooks are put together.

Mary Mcfadden

By Mary McFadden(Hardback)

Mary McFadden helped define the look of the 1970s with original clothing designs created from textiles picked up on her travels around the globe. With tunics of hand-painted fabrics layered over floating silk pants and pleated Fortuny-like gowns with elaborate embroidery, McFadden created a sensation in the fashion world. This volume explores McFadden's thirty-year career, from her debut in Vogue....

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$95.72NZD

Tomboy: Breaking Boundaries of Fashion

By Lizzie Garrett Mettler(Hardback)

Tomboys are confident, rebellious, and adventurous. They are bold, brazen, fierce--and sexy. They aren't known for following rules, they are known for doing--and wearing--whatever they want. "Tomboy" captures the tomboy's style, her je ne sais quoi, her wardrobe, and most importantly, her spirit. Throughout the twentieth century, the mass marketing of gender stereotypes meant tomboys cropped up against the odds,....

City of Style: Exploring Los Angeles Fashion, from Bohemian to Rock

By Melissa Magsaysay(Paperback)

Victorian Fashion Accessories

By Ariel Beaujot(Hardback)

An accessible and lively study of Victorian fashion accessories as tools of flirtation and indicators of class, political ideology, chastity and respectability.

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$159.92NZD

Metatextile: Identity and History of a Contemporary Art Medium

(Paperback / softback)

Today, the relevance of the textile medium as a technique, material, and metaphor in contemporary art, architecture, and criticism is growing. Nonetheless, the rise of textiles as a prominent medium of art since the 1990s has not been subjected to comprehensive historical and theoretical reflection thus far. The present volume attempts to map out some of the many meanings and....

Victorian Fashion Accessories

By Ariel Beaujot(Paperback)

An accessible and lively study of Victorian fashion accessories as tools of flirtation and indicators of class, political ideology, chastity and respectability.

Type Matters!

By Jim Williams(Paperback)

Type Matters! is the ultimate book of typography tips for anyone interested in improving the look of their type. It contains clear subject-by-subject structure helps the reader quickly identify the relevant topic and is elegantly designed, with soft flexi binding, ribbon placeholders and an elastic enclosure, ideal for handy desktop reference.

Doing Research in Design

By Christopher Crouch & Jane Pearce(Hardback)

A comprehensive exploration of design research methods, with particular focus on the social impacts of design.

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$134.13NZD

Doing Research in Design

By Christopher Crouch & Jane Pearce(Paperback)

A comprehensive exploration of design research methods, with particular focus on the social impacts of design.