Teaching Fashion Studies
Teaching Fashion Studies is the definitive resource for instructors of fashion studies at the undergraduate level and beyond. The first of its kind, it offers extensive, practical support for both seasoned instructors and those at the start of an academic career, in addition to interdisciplinary educators looking to integrate fashion into their classes. Informed by the latest research in the field and written by an international team of experts, Teaching Fashion Studies equips educators with a...
The book describes the potential of both design objects and concepts, as well as design as a process, with a strong focus on the process of design engineering in the past, present and future. The book makes a stance by referring to historic and current design parameters in industry in relation to certain training methods. It compares these within Europe, explicitly the approach taken by Germany, Great Britain, and Scandinavia – and highlights best practice examples. The range of design disciplin...
Cyclopædia of Costume, Vol. 1 of 2: Or Dictionary of Dress (Classic Reprint)
by James Robinson Planche
Two Centuries of Costume in America, Vol. 1: MDCXX MDCCCXX (Classic Reprint)
by Alice Morse Earle
Flying Carpets catalogues the exhibition of the same name that took place at the French Academy in Rome, Villa Medici. The book includes an extensive collection of images that document the exhibition as well as insightful introductions by Eric de Chassey, director of the French Academy in Rome and Oliver Michelon, Director of the Musee des Abattoirs of Toulouse and a critical essay by the author, Philippe-Alain Michaud. While modern tradition maintains that the carpet was used as a paradigm for...
Ginette Spanier, discovered her talent for `selling very expensive things to very rich people' at Fortnum and Masons in the 1930s. This uninhibited and amusing account takes her from hiding in occupied France to the Haute Couture world, Directrice of the House of Balmain from 1947 to 1976 and friend of stars of stage and screen including Laurence Olivier, Marlene Dietrich and Vivien Leigh.
A Loom from Bhutan (Bulletins of the Royal Tropical Institute, #339)
by Rita Bolland
Dress and Adornment in the Mountain Province of Luzon, Philippine Islands
by Morice Vanoverbergh
Chichester Tapestries (Otter Memorial Papers, #7)
by Peter Shepheard, Trevor Brighton, Robert T. Holtby, J.D. Mayorcas, Valerie Power, Ursula Benker-Schimer, Eric Bassett, and Tom Devonshire Jones
Early English Poetry, Ballads, Vol. 11: And Popular Literature of the Middle Ages (Classic Reprint)
by Percy Society
Nouveau Manuel Complet de la Fabrication Des Tissus de Toute Espece. Atlas (Savoirs Et Traditions)
by Toustain-F
Catalogue of Fine Ancient and Modern Pictures and Water-Colour Drawings of E. M. Denny, Esq., Deceased: Which (by Order of the Executors) Will Be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods, at Their Great Rooms, 8 King Street, St. James's Squar
by Christie Manson and Woods