Fashion and textile design

This book is the first to explore style and spectacle in glam popular music performance from the 1970s to the present day, and from an international perspective.

Highly Commended, Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Book Prize 2022In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change.

First published in the early 1900s, The Tailors Classical and Infallible Text Book is a timeless volume containing a multitude of patterns for outfits that are perfect for men, women and children.

Annie Holt identifies the roots of contemporary Euro-American practices of costume design, in which costumes are an integrated part of the dramaturgy rather than a reflection of an individual performer's taste or status.

The Festival of Britain in 1951 transformed the way people saw their war-ravaged nation.

Fibres to Smart Textiles: Advances in Manufacturing, Technologies, and Applications offers comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals and advances in the textile and clothing manufacturing sectors.

Inspired by a rapidly changing fashion landscape, Fashion: New Feminist Essays offers historical and contemporary studies that reveal the relationships between fashion with gender, sexuality, race, and age.

Hemmed in by "e;women's work"e; much less than has been thought, women in the late 1800s and early 1900s were the primary entrepreneurs in the millinery and dressmaking trades.

A creative guide to a unique and beautiful form of Korean art, steeped in ancient tradition.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

"e;Children and Misses Garments"e; is a classic guide to tailoring and dressmaking, focusing on producing clothes for women and young girls.

Ours is the era of "e;reinvention"e;.

Designing a Knitwear Collection, 2nd Edition, is an essential and comprehensive overview of the knitting design and development process.

Dressing the Resistance is a celebration of how we use clothing, fashion, and costume to ignite activism and spur social change.

Cuteness is one of the most culturally pervasive aesthetics of the new millennium and its rapid social proliferation suggests that the affective responses it provokes find particular purchase in a contemporary era marked by intensive media saturation and spreading economic precarity.

Build the knowledge and understanding of garment technology essential to any designer In today's competitive fashion industry, it is essential that designers have a working understanding of garment technology.

Essays and stories on fashion, art, and culture in the New York of the 2010s.

A career in fashion merchandising means working in a fast-paced, creative industry-and a highly competitive one.

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A stylish and cozy collection of 21 stunning garments to knit, based on the timeless designs of Niina Laitinen.

During the prosperous, forward-thinking era after the Second World War, a growing number of men, women, and children across the United States were wearing fashions that evoked the Old West.

Who is today's white-collar man?

In the last half of the 19th century, the women of America were beginning to develop their own sense of style.

A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920, when the world embraced color like never before.

This exciting new Japanese stitch dictionary is from popular designer Yoko Hatta--the founder and driving force behind the Kazekobo Studio.

The plant-lovers alternative to the Pantone color guide.

An insider's hilarious, whirlwind account of his years spent globe-trotting in search of the holy grail of handbags: the BirkinFor more than twenty years, the Hermès Birkin bag has been the iconic symbol of fashion, luxury, and wealth.

Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture investigates the social symbolism and cultural poetics of dress in the ancient Roman world in the period from 200 BCE-400 CE.

Design Materials and Making for Social Change spans the two interconnected worlds of the material and the social, at different scales and in different contexts, and explores the value of the knowledge, skills and methods that emerge when design researchers work directly with materials and hold making central to their practice.

A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca artThe most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic made famous through theories about the meanings of its intricate designs, including attempts to read them as a long-lost writing system.

A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920, when the world embraced color like never before.

Examines the extensive use of animal commodities in Victorian Britain and the humanitarian and ecological issues raised by their consumption.

This book explores the evolving relationship between fashion and transnational capitalism.

Seminal and subversive.

This book presents a systematic study on methods used for the creation of weave patterns for simple structures.

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.

The meanings originally communicated by Elizabethan and Jacobean dress have long been confined to history.

Explore different fields in the fashion industry-- ranging from marketing and social media to academia and museum work-- to discover more than 75 unique careers.

This beautiful and inspirational book written by a doyenne of British textile design explores the art of painting and making patterns on cloth.

Garment Manufacturing Technology provides an insiders' look at this multifaceted process, systematically going from design and production to finishing and quality control.

Print is an exciting and dynamic design area, with new analogue and digital technologies opening up a wealth of creative possibilities for designers in textile and non-textile media.

Winner of the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2022Traditionally associated with rural ways of life in England, often hand-crafted and held up as one of the only items of English folk dress to survive into the 20th century, the smock frock is an object of curiosity in many museum collections.

Dieses ungewöhnliche Strickbuch punktet mit seinen liebevoll inszenierten Modefotos in Kombination mit besonderen Styles, perfekten Passformen in vielen Größen und den einfachen Anleitungen, die ein Gelingen garantieren.

This collection of original essays interrogates disciplinary boundaries in fashion, gathering fashion studies research across disciplines and from around the globe.