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Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A simple guide to getting dressed and transforming your looks with accessories that show off your personal style and complement your outfits. This sparkling celebration of accessories from the author of the 50 Ways to Wear series offers top-notch tips for rocking statement pieces -- think earrings, bracelets, hats, belts, purses, and more -- in unexpected ways. Learn how to accessorize any outfit for a snowy day, a fancy event, a job interview. With...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A whimsical new TIY (tie-it-yourself) book full of drawings and directions showing how to create head wraps, neck knots and more." -- The Washington Post From the Audrey to the Paris, the Top Down, or the Easy Breezy, there are fifty scarf styles in this book for any occasion or mood. Jaunty illustrations break down each step so stylistas can wrap, loop, and get out the door looking perfectly polished. Teens, young professionals, and moms alike will...
Author
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In Berlin Street Style, noted design expert Angelika Taschen defines the unique fashion sense of this hip city. The book showcases the popular "anti-chic†? look seen throughout Berlin, offering advice on how to create a simple, casual, and appealingly disheveled appearance with vintage pieces, essential basics, and carefully selected accessories. For travelers to Berlin, the book recommends the city's top destinations for fashion, beauty, design,...
Author
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A smart and stylish fashion and beauty guide from the creators of the popular website WhoWhatWear.com. Now, the creators share their tricks of the trade, translating high fashion in a low-fuss, accessible way. Hillary Kerr and Katherine Power, two former Elle magazine editors, are the fashionable duo behind the booming website. In Who What Wear they've compiled the best of their tips and advice into one stylish compendium. Trends come and go at a...
Author
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Tokyo is home to a creative and daring street-style scene, rich with subcultures and shaped by constant motion. In Tokyo Street Style , fashion writer Yoko Yagi explores influential trends, covering an eclectic range of styles from kawaii cute to genderless looks, while designers, editors, models, stylists, and other important personalities in the Tokyo fashion scene share their individual approaches to style in interviews. Moving from a glimpse of...
Author
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1947, Christian Dior stunned the fashion world with his first collection, the 'New Look,' which transformed the way women dressed, and he continued to send shock waves with his later shows, significantly altering the fashion landscape. Vogue on Christian Dior tells the story of Dior's search for the perfect line and how his unique style and vision of women's ideal silhouette developed. One of the most famous designers of the 20th century, his name...
Author
Publisher
David & Charles
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Crochet new life into unloved, unworn clothes with sustainable fashion hacks! This book is not just a collection of crochet patterns or a selection of makes to keep you looking de rigeur. Oh no -- this book is actually a toolkit of hints, tips and instructions to help you rethink the clothes that are already around you, from your own wardrobe to second-hand stores and thrifted finds. This book is a way of life. Whether it's repairing tears and holes,...
Author
Publisher
Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Love What You Wear shows women how to be fabulous at ALL of their homes!
High stress career got you on the move? Sick of spending thousands of dollars on clothing you never wear?
Tried and failed with personal shoppers at high-end department stores?
Are you constantly wondering where your favorite sweater is?
Love What You Wear will update your style without stress.
Get dressed from ANYWHERE in the world.
Look and feel great and appropriately dressed...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When your style is timeless, you're always on trend -- learn how to incorporate these sixty chic classics into your wardrobe. Fashion trends may come and go, but timeless pieces can look chic in every season with the right kind of style. Closet Essentials reveals the secrets of styling sixty of these wardrobe essentials -- from the Breton striped top to the little black dress, bomber jacket, jeans, ballet flats, and more -- into endless outfits,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This loom book contains 10 projects for every age and gender, made on a variety of round small- to large-gauge knitting looms. Medium to chunky weight yarns are used throughout the book and each hat offers a variety of sizing options. What makes this book special? Never before has there been hat loom books with on-trend cap designs for the baby, kids and adults. We have earlap hats, basic toppers and even a whimsical animal hat we call "Fido's Hat"...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Filled with fresh new research and never-before-seen photos, this updated edition of the definitive biography of Coco Chanel deepens our understanding of the history and legacy of the incredible woman who shaped modern fashion and created an empire of haute couture.
Coco Chanel was an extraordinary inventor, conjuring up the little black dress, bobbed hair, trousers for women, contemporary chic, bestselling perfumes, and the most successful fashion...
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Style is an all-new, original collection of clever, charming, and often hilarious musings from American fashion's biggest designers. The book culls the best pieces of advice and insight from a survey conducted by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) of its 400-plus members, including Diane von Furstenberg, Zac Posen, Betsey Johnson, Narciso Rodriguez, Donna Karan, and Ralph Lauren, among many others....
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A biography of the French fashion icon that unveils the private life behind the public image. Coco Chanel lived her own life as a romantic heroine. Fueled by nineteenth-century literature, she built an image for herself which was partly myth and partly factual. She was the fashion designer everyone admired, the businesswoman whose fortune was impossible to track. She was also a performer, a lover of many high-profile intellectuals, and, as believed...
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This stylish compilation features 125 watercolor and ink renderings of designs from the house of Worth, the first couturier establishment and founder of the modern fashion industry. Sent to one of their clients, a seasonal resident in Litchfield, Connecticut, the sketches include fabric swatches, design names, detailed price information, and personalized notes. The catalog includes two substantial essays that address the cultural and social significance...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
From corsets to codpieces, stockings to stilettos and piercing to push-up bras, fashion and sex have always enjoyed a very close relationship. This new edition of David Kunzle's rich and revealing history of corsetry and body sculpture shows how this neglected phenomenon is closely bound up with sexual self-expression. Drawing on sources as diverse as medical literature and popular magazine articles, this fascinating history shows how in many ways...
Author
Publisher
Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Clothes the Deal is a savvy woman's guide to transformative personal style. In today's increasingly visual business world, personal style matters. A well-dressed woman conveys authority and confidence--critical traits for leading a team and driving revenue. Clothes the Deal shows women that enviable personal style isn't just for millennials and celebrities but is a skill they are more than qualified to master, with far less clothes than they ever...
Author
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The co-founders of the hugely successful Who What Wear empire share their best career advice for smart, stylish, self-starting women of all professional levels. In The Career Code , the third book in the smash-hit Who What Wear series, fashion and digital entrepreneurs Katherine Power and Hillary Kerr bring you the Everygirl's guide for creating your own professional success, on every level, flawlessly. The book is filled with insightful, pragmatic...
Author
Publisher
Gatekeeper Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"OUTRAGEOUS CRIMES OF FASHION is a hilarious and authentic rags-to-riches memoir set in the crime-ridden streets of New York City in the late 1970s. It follows a naive and penniless young woman as she hysterically navigates through a cast of unsavory characters, meeting every disaster imaginable with guts, determination, wit, and ultimately, incredible success. This story resonates with readers of all generations as an encouraging tale for the aspiring...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Create bold, colorful, one-of-a-kind statement jewelry with this guide from two designers who’ve worked with top brands. From runways to boutiques, statement jewelry has become the coveted accessory. In Make a Statement , jewelry designers and co-founders of For the Makers Janet Crowther and Katie Covington share their trade secrets for using basic techniques and easy-to-source materials to make stylish jewelry and accessories, from a gold bib necklace...
Author
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
I Want to Be Her! is part memoir and part illustrated fashion guide, written by one of fashion's most accessible, trusted, and inspiring writers. Andrea Linett, the cofounder of Lucky magazine, shares her personal story of growing up and finding her way to fashion, and the figures who guided her along the way. Through short descriptions and memories, we meet 50 women across five eras of her life-some passing strangers, some casual friends, some close...
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