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Leading designers, including Donna Karan, Issey Miyake, Manolo Blahnic, and others, offer their ideas for women's fashions of the future.

From the Rolex Submariner, Omega Seamaster and Blancpain Fifty Fathoms to dive watches by DOXA, Tudor, IWC, Patek Philippe and TAG Heuer, SEA TIME: Watches Inspired by Sailing, Yachting and Diving takes a pinpoint-periscope look at more than 100 contemporary and vintage nautical-inspired mechanical timepieces. With a foreword by best-selling adventure novelist Clive Cussler and images by fine-art photographer Peter Eaton Gurnz, SEA TIME written by Aaron Sigmond and Mark Bernardo interweaves hist...

Wall exposes the art and design aficionado to a new format of unique expression and design in a way that is 'translatable' to the contemporary home. Using walls as a forum for art whether it is through visionary painting, photography, sculpture or lighting, this collection features a brilliant compilation of cutting-edge design, art, and inspiration. Aware that art is a reflection of popular culture, Ralph Pucci is known as an international innovator and pioneer in the synergy between the worlds...

This account traces a year of contrasting fashion identities and styles of the Duchess of York and the Princess of Wales, discussing their changing and emerging personalities, their roles and images. From wedding dresses to skiing outfits, Royal Ascot to family holidays, here is an examination of the very different tastes of these two high-profile young women - highlighted by their relationships with designers and their feelings towards one another's clothes - seen against their own views of the...

Beyond the Dirndl. A photographer from Berlin brings the traditional costumes of rural Germany into the context of couture. They have lost their place in daily life and yet, they still exist: the regional costumes of Germany. Once lovingly stitched by hand to be worn on festive occasions, they are true historical relies: their shapes and metallic ornaments carry within them history from the Renaissance and Baroque to Biedermeier, while their embroideries tell of ancient pagan rites or the emanci...

Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet's Le Costume Historique was the most wide-ranging and intelligent study of clothing ever published. Covering the world history of costume, dress, and style from antiquity through the end of the 19th century, the great work - "consolidated" in 1888 into 6 volumes containing nearly 500 plates - remains, to this day, completely unique in its scope and detail. Racinet's organization by culture and subject has been preserved in Tas...

This book is specifically devoted to qualitative research methods in fashion studies. It traces the history of fashion studies and provides readers with a guided introduction to the entire research process. It gives an overview of the key methodological approaches such as ethnography, semiology, and object-based research, and shows the student reader how "to do" research by combining theoretical and practical perspectives. Using case studies, the author outlines the major issues and methodologic...

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