Fashion and beauty industries

Keep it simple and do it well.

Transform your home and wardrobe with this fresh and modern take on tie-dye.

Stop Wondering What to Wear and Wear.

From Carrie Bradshaw to Grace Jones, and from Nicki Minaj to Blair Waldorf, New York is the fashion 'it girl' capital of the world.

From ancient times, people have wanted to understand the rhythms of life and looked to the skies for answers.

"e;It's a fabulous thing to give life to fabric, to make something move well, the harmony of colour"e; - Hubert de GivenchyEver since Audrey Hepburn stood outside Tiffany's, croissant in hand, Givenchy has been the last word in elegant couture.

This book contains everything you need to know about suits, from the traditional designs of the early 1900s, to innovative contemporary variations.

Fashion rules supreme in Korea with Seoul fast gaining its reputation as East Asia's leading style capital.

From the acclaimed author of Luxury, comes a journey into an extravagant world of wealth, glamour and secret scandals.

You and your clothes can always look their fabulous best with the wisdom of Alicia Healey, a lady's maid and wardrobe consultant who trained at Buckingham Palace and now works with clients around the world.

Simple Knit for Cherished Babies is the best-selling baby knits title in the world and is now available in a new smaller format!

**Business Book Awards 2024 Finalist** 'Navigating the world of PR is no easy feat - but this book is an indispensable guide to doing just that' Francesca Ogiermann-White, Health and Beauty Editor-at-Large, Tatler A more beautiful way to connect with customers PR and marketing have traditionally been seen as deceit and spin: Beautiful PR offers a new manifesto rooted in integrity.

For such a beautiful industry, there is a lot of ugly behind the scenes in modelling.

**Business Book Awards 2024 Finalist** 'Navigating the world of PR is no easy feat - but this book is an indispensable guide to doing just that' Francesca Ogiermann-White, Health and Beauty Editor-at-Large, Tatler A more beautiful way to connect with customers PR and marketing have traditionally been seen as deceit and spin: Beautiful PR offers a new manifesto rooted in integrity.

There is not just one story of silk.

An unmissable essay from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next'A magnificent text' KATY HESSEL'This is so sharp, and funny, and will be so generously liberating for so many - read it!

'Deerstalker: Sherlock Holmes wore one.

First published a year after World War II ended, this fictional text was written for a generation of women starved by war rationing of both clothing and makeup.

Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973), one of the leading fashion designers of the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, was known for her flair for the unusual.

Barbara Hulanicki tells the story of the rise and fall of the tiny, energetic boutique that grew into a vast emporium and epitomised Swinging London.

Carmel Snow (1887 1961), the notorious publishing rival of Vogue editor Edna Woolman Chase, left Vogue in 1932 to become fashion editor, then editor of Harper's Bazaar.

The bestselling fashion classic for both the style-conscious and the desperately in need.

Aage Thaarup left his job in a Copenhagen department store in his teens to conquer the world.

Sir Norman Hartnell (1901-1979) dominated London couture during the inter-war years, gaining international fame as dressmaker to the British royal family.

Christian Dior (1905-1957) rocketed to fame with his first collection in 1947 when the 'New Look' took the world by storm.

The autobiography of Mary Quant-the inventor of the miniskirt-was originally published in 1966 at the height of Swinging London.

Bettina Ballard, Paris-based correspondent and later Fashion Editor for US Vogue, was at the centre of the fashion world from the 1930s to the '50s and an intimate of Coco Chanel, Cristobal Balenciaga and Elsa Schiaparelli.

You've walked down the aisle with the man of your dreams, now what?

Ginette Spanier discovered her talent for 'selling very expensive things to very rich people' at Fortnum and Mason in the 1930s.

Jean Dawnay, or 'Caroline' as she was known, was a house model for Dior during the years 1949-50.

Brought up to enter a learned profession, Henry Melton very successfully overcame his 'aversion to going into trade' and became hatter to the Prince of Wales.

Paul Poiret's autobiography tells the extraordinary story of

Derided by the traditional fashion establishment for declaring Mick Jagger 'stylish', Janey Ironside's career in the fashion industry was inseparable from her identity.

Vogue was a newly formed weekly society magazine when Edna Woolman Chase arrived on its staff in 1895 at the young age of 18.

The working life of a women in retail in the 1930s was tough, but not beyond the no-nonsense Ethyle Campbell.

'My only purpose is to write the kind of book that I would have liked to have read when I started.

Readers of The Sunday Times' knew that the fashion journalist Ernestine Carter could spot a winner from a mile away, whether at a Paris couturier or a boutique on Londons Kings Road.

Pierre Balmain ranks with the greatest couturiers of the mid-twentieth century.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER'Utterly brilliant.

As Britain's most successful and high profile make-up artist, for the past 15 years Gary Cockerill has glossed the lips, curled the lashes and shared the secrets of the famous and fabulous.

The Swinging Sixties are known for being an era of unmistakable femininity and groundbreaking chic.

The essential guide to fashion's favourite print.

Discover the legendary story of Converse, where rubber-soles and a signature chevron-and-star insignia became synonymous with American style and ubiquitous across the world.

Apparel Production Terms and Processes, Third Edition, defines materials and terms relating to global mass production of raw materials, design and development, garment details and component parts, sizing and fit, patternmaking tools methods and computer technology, pre-production operations, assembly, production and manufacturing, labeling regulations, testing and quality control, inspection, finishing, and packaging.

From its origins producing arch supports and orthopaedic products to its irrepressible rise creating specialised athletic footwear, to its omnipresence as a style staple, New Balance and been defining footwear for well over a century.