A must for any fashion student, this book provides an in-depth review of the wide-ranging career options available in the fashion and textile industry, profiling over fifty careers that span the creative, technical, retail and media fields. Clearly defined job profiles are accompanied by interviews with people employed in the industry. Breaking into the fashion industry can be very difficult for newly qualified graduates and young designers due to the high number of students graduating each year...
Fashion is a challenging sector of the retail market, requiring retailers to be innovative, accurately know the market and establish their own (or buy in) desirable brands. To embrace the multiplicity of fashion retailing, this book draws upon both large and small establishments to examine the strategies and operations of fashion retail organisations. Uniting theory and practice, the book includes market structure and competition, consumer demand, channels to market, buying, merchandising and lo...
Bobs, beards, blondes and beyond, Hair takes us on a lavishly illustrated journey into the world of this remarkable substance and our complicated and fascinating relationship with it. Taking the key things we do to it in turn, this book captures its importance in the past and into the present: to individuals and society, for health and hygiene, in social and political challenge, in creating ideals of masculinity and womanliness, in being a vehicle for gossip, secrets and sex. Using art, f...
Jewelry was worn by ancient Egyptians at every level of society and, like their modern descendants, they prized it for its aesthetic value, as a way to adorn and beautify the body. It was also a conspicuous signifier of wealth, status, and power. But jewelry in ancient Egypt served another fundamental purpose: its wearers saw it as a means to absorb positive magical and divine powers-to protect the living, and the dead, from the malignant forces of the unseen. The types of metals or stones used...
Dame of the British Empire Vivienne Westwood is best known for her provocative SEX/Seditionaries boutique on Kings Road, and then perhaps her runway shows. Her shoes recently got a hit of mass-market retail power when she did a limited edition collection for a partnership including Nine West, Macy's and Vogue. Westwood was comparatively reserved in that work, but for other venues, her bulbous, curving platform soles sometimes grow to NBA-qualifying heights. This is the first book to gather Westw...
Wedding Register Log (Logbook, Journal - 126 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches) (Manchester Designs/Record Books)
by Manchester Designs
Clothing Connections
by Jacqueline Davis-Manigaulte, Gret Atkin, and Jean McLean
The Fashionista Guy's Style Tracking Journal (Fashion Journals for Men, #1)
by F MacKay Young
CAMP
by Andrew Bolton, Fabio Cleto, Karen Van Godtsenhove, and Amanda Garfinkel
What is "camp"? Drawing from Susan Sontag’s seminal essay, this striking volume explores its meaning and its expression in fashion from its origins to today“[An] amazing catalogue. . . . Extraordinary.”—Christiane Amanpour, CNN Although an elusive concept, “camp” can be found in most forms of artistic expression, revealing itself through an aesthetic of deliberate stylization. Fashion is one of the most overt and enduring conduits of the camp aesthetic. As a site for the playful dynamics between...
The five-year diary functions like a time capsule; each page has a month and day at the top and five spaces to jot down a line about what happened on that day over a five-year period (the diary is not year-specific and can be started at any time). Drawing from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s famous costume collection, this journal features a stunning dress, ensemble, or accessory on every page, identified with a brief caption. Arranged by color, the diary covers over 300 years of style, and inc...
Featuring artwork selected from the pages of WWD, this book celebrates the work of Fairchilds staff artists. This book documents fashion illustrations drawn for a trade publication and the business of fashion rather than for consumers or the general public.
Gorgeous Women Gorgeous Gowns Volume 2 (Gorgeous Women, #2)
by Renee Davenport