5,448円 Winner of Best Performance Design and Scenography Publication Award, Prague Quadrennial 2019 This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical manifestations, costume is explored in six thema...

4,686円 This pioneering book explores the notion of 'radical decadence' as concept, aesthetic and lived experience, and as an analytical framework for the study of contemporary feminist textile art. Gendered discourses of decadence that perpetuate anxieties about women's power, consumption and pleasure a...

3,310円 Strange Material explores the relationship between handmade textiles and storytelling. Through text, the act of weaving a tale or dropping a thread takes on new meaning for those who previously have seen textiles-quilts, blankets, articles of clothing, and more-only as functional objects. This bo...

856円 Ginette Spanier discovered her talent for ‘selling very expensive things to very rich people’ at Fortnum and Mason in the 1930s. This uninhibited and amusing account takes her from hiding in occupied France to the world of haute couture, as Directrice of the House of Balmain from 1947 to 1976 and...

562円 Support whatever your kids’ interests are. This one’s for the future designers of all time. This book contains the present and the future of the fashion design industry with inspirations taken from only the world renowned designers. Your kids will definitely appreciate your full support in their ...

2,479円 This book is about people who worked in the rag trade in the nineteenth century – dressmakers and milliners, tailors, two shoemakers, a framework knitter, a family of corset manufacturers and a lace maker. It deals with the trades and their products, but also with the day-to-day lives of the prot...

2,906円 Purple dye is extracted from the glands of the molluscs Hexaplex trunculus, Bolinus Brandaris and Stramonita Haemastoma which, through a chemical reaction of photosynthesis, produces hues ranging from dark red to bluish purple color. The importance of purple dye since ancient times as a status sy...

562円 Why do you want your child to learn about fashion? It’s not because you want your child to fit in but more because fashion represents culture, arts and the collective dreams of the people. With the help of this educational resource, your child will begin to understand how colors and patterns inte...

5,194円 Changing trends in fashion have always reflected large-scale social and cultural changes. Changing Fashion presents for the first time a multi-disciplinary approach to examining fashion change, bringing together theory from fashion studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and art history,...

5,701円 On any given day nearly half the world's population is wearing blue jeans. This is entirely extraordinary. Yet there has never been a serious attempt to understand the causes, nature and consequences of denim as 'the' global garment of our world. This book takes up that challenge with gusto. It g...

1,500円 Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Coco Chanel, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá: • Examinar el contexto que rodea la vida de Coco Chanel, desde las dos guerras mundiales hasta los años de la posg...

1,604円 The acclaimed biography of one of England’s great eccentrics and leading fashion designers. For three decades, Vivienne Westwood has been Britain’s most consistently original, outrageous, eccentric and controversial designer. In that time she has evolved from an iconoclastic outsider to an inter...