Edition: 5th Edition
Publication date: 2003-01-29
Dewey code: 646.432072
RRP: £28.50
Price: £24.31
Review Dress Pattern Designing / WileyBlackwell:
Creator: Claire Wilcox
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-05-30
Dewey code: 746
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.74
Review Radical Fashion / V & A Publications:
Publication date: 2008-08-01
Dewey code: 338
RRP: £17.95
Price: £10.89
Review Fashion Entrepreneur: Starting Your Own Fashion Business (Fashion Design Series) / Burke Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-02-04
Dewey code: 391.413082
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.52
Review Things a Woman Should Know About Shoes / Prion Books Ltd:
Creator: Shoichi Aoki
Publication date: 2001-06-30
Dewey code: 779.9391009520904
RRP: £19.95
Price: £12.71
Review Fruits / Phaidon Press Ltd:If you ever wondered where the catwalk got its claws, then the portraits gathered in photographer Shoichi Aoki's book Fruits, from the streets of Harajuku in Tokyo, point the way to an extraordinarily imaginative and invariably stunning glut of mongrel fashion heists. A "best-of" from the fanzine of the same name, published for the first time outside Japan, Fruits keeps its style clean: front-on, razor-sharp images, ranging from the deadpan to the manic, of the sharpest collages of sartorial influence that, usually, little money can buy. From off the peg to off the wall, kitsch to bitch, each person bears a combination and philosophy as distinctive as DNA. All shades of aesthetic are raided, with exquisite, scrupulous attention to detail. Punk is a favourite, as is, appropriately, Vivienne Westwood, alongside Milk and Jean-Paul Gaultier, and the occasional Comme des Garcons. Many of the outfits, though, are second-hand or self-assembly, such as a skirt drooping petals of men's silk ties, Wa-mono, when tradition Japanese clothes are topped with, say, an authentic bowler hat, EGL ("Elegant Gothic Lolita"), and a swathe of tartans, pinks and turquoises. The most malleable feature, unsurprisingly, is hair, with dreadlocks, mohicans, back-combing, and crops dyed an irradiated spectrum. While the eye is drawn, obediently, to the mannequins, the background is often worth a look, either for the vending machines against which a number are shot, or the ubiquitous Gap store and bags, a constant reminder of the global mass market. One enterprising man wears a genuine British paperboy's delivery bag, and, to pick but one profile, Princess, 18, is trying to be a doll, and is currently pre-occupied with body organs. Mmm. [+]All the subjects are asked the source of their clothes, as well as their “point of fashion” and “current obsession”. The scope for socio-psychological discussion is vast, particularly with the preponderance of infantilisation, through dolls, bonnets, pop socks and Barbie, but this is a joyous documentation of the innovative, celebrating the inspirational polytheism of street fashion, captured with provocative, political zeal. Best let the street cats prowl. -David Vincent.
Authors
- Patricia Flaherty Meyers
- Roberto Cabrera
Publication date: 1983-01-01
Dewey code: 646.433
RRP: £32.00
Price: £28.00
Review Classic Tailoring Techniques: A Construction Guide For Men's Wear / Fairchild Books:
Publication date: 2006-09-29
Dewey code: 391.44
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.21
Review Handbags: What Every Woman Should Know / David & Charles:
Publication date: 2003-11-01
Dewey code: 646.34
RRP: £21.99
Price: £12.47
Review The Lucky Shopping Manual: Building and Improving Your Wardrobe Piece by Piece / E P Dutton & Co Inc:
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publication date: 2006-02-01
Dewey code: 746.92
RRP: £24.99
Price: £20.90
Review Fashion Source Book / WileyBlackwell:
Publication date: 1996-05-07
Dewey code: 739.2709
RRP: £8.95
Price: £3.97
Review Jewelry: From Antiquity to the Present (World of Art) / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Creator: Jim Heimann
Publication date: 2006-11-01
Dewey code: 659.196870973
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.46
Review 70s Fashion: Vintage Fashion and Beauty Ads (Icons) / Taschen GmbH:
Authors
- Marie O'Mahony
- Sarah E. Braddock Clarke
Dewey code: 646
RRP: £19.95
Price: £10.86
Review Techno Textiles: Bk. 2: Revolutionary Fabrics for Fashion and Design: Bk. 2 / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publication date: 2004-09-02
Dewey code: 646.4072
RRP: £24.99
Price: £20.90
Review Pattern Cutting for Lingerie, Beachwear and Leisurewear / WileyBlackwell:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1954-01-01
Dewey code: 391.42
RRP: £26.99
Price: £21.19
Review Corsets and Crinolines / Routledge:
Publication date: 2004-02-19
Dewey code: 746
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.98
Review Making Latex Clothes / Batsford Ltd:
Authors
- Lise Sarfati
- Quentin Bajac
Dewey code: 778
RRP: £18.95
Price: £10.44
Review Fashion Magazine: Lise Sarfati: Austin, Texas / Magnum Photos:
Authors
- John Gillow
- Nicholas Barnard
Dewey code: 646
RRP: £29.95
Price: £17.40
Review Indian Textiles / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 2006-04
Dewey code: 391.00942
RRP: £9.95
Price: £3.30
Review Costume 1066 to the Present: A Complete Guide to English Costume Design and History / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Creator: Jenny Lister
Publication date: 2006-05-04
Dewey code: 746.92094209046
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.89
Review Swinging Sixties / V & A Publications:
Publication date: 2007-01-09
Dewey code: 746.920747471
RRP: £18.50
Price: £13.97
Review Anglomania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications) / Yale University Press:
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Dress Pattern Designing, Radical Fashion, Fashion Entrepreneur: Starting Your Own Fashion Business (Fashion Design Series), Things a Woman Should Know About Shoes, Fruits, Classic Tailoring Techniques: A Construction Guide For Men's Wear, Handbags: What Every Woman Should Know, The Lucky Shopping Manual: Building and Improving Your Wardrobe Piece by Piece, Fashion Source Book, Jewelry: From Antiquity to the Present (World of Art), 70s Fashion: Vintage Fashion and Beauty Ads (Icons), Techno Textiles: Bk. 2: Revolutionary Fabrics for Fashion and Design: Bk. 2, Pattern Cutting for Lingerie, Beachwear and Leisurewear, Corsets and Crinolines, Making Latex Clothes, Fashion Magazine: Lise Sarfati: Austin, Texas, Indian Textiles, Costume 1066 to the Present: A Complete Guide to English Costume Design and History, Swinging Sixties, Anglomania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications) |
