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Report copyright infringementby Sharon Blain (Author)THE CONFIDENT STYLIST is EVERYTHING you'll ever need for hair styling success all in the one spot, and it's the book Sharon Blain's fans worldwide have been waiting for!Why? Because it's 50-plus years of her incredible styling experiences all distilled into one comprehensive styling bible - whether you're a passionate professional stylist, make-up artist, or just love creating magic with your own hair, think of this essential guide as your ...

Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War

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Report copyright infringementby Kathleen James-Chakraborty (Author)Offering the first comprehensive training in the visual arts grounded in abstraction, the Bauhaus was the site of a dazzling range of influential experiments in painting, architecture, photography, industrial design, and even artistic education itself. Three-quarters of a century later, the "look" of the new remains indebted to the Bauhaus and its equation of technology with modernism. Central to discussions of the relationshi...

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Report copyright infringementby Joyce Mori (Author)A brief history of the simple, but powerful design of the cross, with more than 20 patterns for appliqué.Throughout the ages many cultures have developed their own designs to depict the cross. A symbol of both suffering and victory, the cross can be used to create a powerful, meaningful image on functional and decorative pieces in the church, home and office. In Crosses of Many Cultures, Joyce Mori provides historical explanations along with ...

Georgia Quilts: Piecing Together a History

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Report copyright infringementby Catherine Holmes (Contribution by), Darlene R. Roth (Contribution by), Irene McLaren (Contribution by)This abundantly illustrated volume arises out of the painstaking work of the Georgia Quilt Project, the most authoritative survey of quilts and quiltmakers ever undertaken in the state. Georgia Quilts showcases the diversity of quilting materials, methods, and patterns used in the state from the nineteenth century to the present and reveals how quilts serve as ...

Drawing on the Victorians: The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Maria Jones (Editor)Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images-illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera-to a mass readership. This Victorian visual turn prefigured the present-day impact of the Internet on how images are produced and shared, both dr...

Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy L. Green (Author)Nancy L. Green offers a critical and lively look at New York's Seventh Avenue and the Parisian Sentier in this first comparative study of the two historical centers of the women's garment industry. Torn between mass production and "art," this industry is one of the few manufactauring sectors left in the service-centered cities of today. Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work tells the story of urban growth, the politics of labor, and the relatio...

Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging

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Report copyright infringementby Minh-Ha T. Pham (Author)In the first ever book devoted to a critical investigation of the personal style blogosphere, Minh-Ha T. Pham examines the phenomenal rise of elite Asian bloggers who have made a career of posting photographs of themselves wearing clothes on the Internet. Pham understands their online activities as "taste work" practices that generate myriad forms of capital for superbloggers and the brands they feature. A multifaceted and detailed analy...

Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds

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Report copyright infringementby Arturo Escobar (Author)In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design-from consumer goods and digital technologies to built environments-currently serves capitalist ends, Escobar argues for the development of an "autonomous design" that eschews commercial and...

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Report copyright infringementby Ilya Parkins (Author)Through a highly original and detailed analysis of the memoirs, interviews and other life writings of Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli, this book explores changing notions of femininity in the early decades of the 20th century, when the democratization of fashion began. Examining idea of modernity, eternity and the ephemeral in the writings of these haute couturiers, the book reflects on fashion's ambivalent approach to women, which both celeb...

The Religious Life of Dress: Global Fashion and Faith

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Report copyright infringementby Lynne Hume (Author), Joanne B. Eicher (Editor)From clothing to the painted and scarified nude body, through overt, public display or esoteric symbols known only to the initiated, dress can convey information about beliefs, faith, identity, power, agency, resistance, and fashion. Taking a 'senses' approach, Hume's engaging account takes into consideration the look, smell, feel, touch and sound of religious apparel, the 'smells and bells' of dress and its accoutr...

Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design

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Report copyright infringementby Grace Lees-Maffei (Editor), Kjetil Fallan (Editor)Goods made or designed in Italy enjoy a profile which far outstrips the country's modest manufacturing output. Italy's glorious design heritage and reputation for style and innovation has 'added value' to products made in Italy. Since 1945, Italian design has commanded an increasing amount of attention from design journalists, critics and consumers. But is Italian design a victim of its own celebrity? Made in It...

Fashion on Television: Identity and Celebrity Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Helen Warner (Author)Fashion on Television provides a comprehensive critical examination of the intersection between fashion, television and celebrity culture. The book brings together theoretical approaches to the symbolic force of television and fashion-forward programming on a global scale. Examining case studies such as Sex and the City, Gossip Girl, Ugly Betty and Mad Men, the book examines how TV has made style icons out of leading actresses and fashion-c...

Cool Shades: The History and Meaning of Sunglasses

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Report copyright infringementby Vanessa Brown (Author)Cool Shades provides the first in-depth exploration of the enduring appeal of sunglasses in visual culture, both historically and today. Ubiquitous in fashion, advertising, film and graphic design, sunglasses are the ultimate signifier of 'cool' in mass culture; a powerful attribute pervading much fashion and pop cultural imagery which has received little scholarly attention until now. Accessible and highly engaging, this book offers an or...

Fashion Writing and Criticism: History, Theory, Practice

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Report copyright infringementby Peter McNeil (Author), Sanda Miller (Author)Fashion Writing and Criticism provides students with the tools to critique fashion with skill and style. Explaining the history and theory of criticism, this innovative text demonstrates how the tradition of criticism has developed and how this knowledge can be applied to fashion, enabling students to acquire the methods and proper vocabulary to be active critics themselves. Integrating history and theory, this innova...

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Report copyright infringementby Tony Fry (Author), Tony Fry (Editor), Clive Dilnot (Author)Design and the Question of History is not a work of Design History. Rather, it is a mixture of mediation, advocacy and polemic that takes seriously the directive force of design as an historical actor in and upon the world. Understanding design as a shaper of worlds within which the political, ethical and historical character of human being is at stake, this text demands radically transformed notions of...

Classic Tailoring Techniques: A Construction Guide for Women's Wear

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Report copyright infringementby Roberto Cabrera (Author), Patricia Flaherty Meyers (Author)Classic Tailoring Techniques: A Construction Guide for Women's Wear presents detailed, precise construction techniques for both basic jackets and skirts and more complex variants, walking students through every step of the process: tailoring fundamentals, preparing a pattern, fitting, selecting fabric, layout, cutting, and altering. Photographs, diagrams, and step-by-step instructions guide introductory...

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Report copyright infringementby Ernestine Kopp (Author), Lee Gross (Author), Beatrice Zelin (Author)Author BiographyErnestine Kopp, Vittorina Rolfo, Beatrice Zelin and Lee Gross are affiliated with the Fashion Istitute of Technology Number of Pages: 135 Dimensions: 0.42 x 12.03 x 9.13 IN Publication Date: September 25, 1991

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Report copyright infringementby Sophie Marcoux (Author)3D papercraft inspirations has over 112 project images to keep you inspired!MYSTICALS, CELESTIALS and ROBOTICS COLLECTIONYou will find a massive selection of 3D papercraft project images in this big collection of inspirations. Images were AI generated based on a combined expert knowledge of graphic design and 3D papercraft. This new tool offers us new experiences in imagery that have never been possible before. Use this newly generated, n...

Dressing Modern Maternity: The Frankfurt Sisters of Dallas and the Page Boy Label

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Report copyright infringementby Kay Goldman (Author)In Depression-era Dallas, Elsie Frankfurt and Edna Frankfurt Ravkind raised five hundred dollars and launched a daring new enterprise, Page Boy Maternity Clothing--the first to engineer elegance in comfort. When Louise Frankfurt Gartner joined the team, the sisters' combined engineering, business, and PR genius made Page Boy the foremost maternity-clothing manufacturer in the United States. Dressing entertainment icons such as Loretta Young,...

Forbidden Fashions: Invisible Luxuries in Early Venetian Convents

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Report copyright infringementby Isabella Campagnol Fabretti (Author)Form-fitting dresses, silk veils, earrings, furs, high-heeled shoes, make-up, and dyed, flowing hair. It is difficult for a contemporary person to reconcile these elegant clothes and accessories with the image of cloistered nuns. For many of the some thousand nuns in early modern Venice, however, these fashions were the norm. Often locked in convents without any religious calling--simply to save their parents the expense of t...

Knock It Off!: A History of Design Piracy in the Us Women's Ready-To-Wear Apparel Industry

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Report copyright infringementby Sara B. Marcketti (Author), Jean Louise Parsons (Author)The intersection of women's fashion and big business in the US has always been a compelling study across social strata. The ready-to-wear apparel industry thrives on creating a presumably original design that is then interpreted into copies. Called design piracy by some and the knock-off process by most in the industry, copying fashion designs is a firmly embedded business strategy that predates even the a...

The Great Wardrobe Accounts of Henry VII and Henry VIII

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Report copyright infringementby Maria Hayward (Editor)Accounts providing details of the quantities and cost of clothing and other items manufactured for the first Tudor kings. By the late fifteenth century the Great Wardrobe, the section of the royal household that supplied the king and his household with clothing and furnishings, was well established in the London parish of St Andrew by the Wardrobe (many of the suppliers of fabric to the Great Wardrobe and many of the individuals who worked...

Elegantly Frugal Costumes: The Poor Man's Do-It-Yourself Costume Maker's Guide

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Report copyright infringementby Shirley Dearing (Author)Costuming can be one of the most difficult aspects of putting on a play. It can also be the most expensive. Here is a do-it-yourself costume maker's guide. This wonderfully practical book literally shows you how to make costumes for plays and musicals at the lowest possible expense! With over 150 detailed illustrations, the book aids all costumers with its easy-to-follow text. Just about every basic period is covered: Biblical to Medieva...

You Can Do a Graphic Novel: Comic Books, Webcomics, and Strips

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Slate (Author)Putting together words and pictures produces a compelling medium for story telling. Whether it's a comic book, strip, or graphic novel, veteran cartoonist Barbara Slate guides you through the process. Barbara shares the insight and skills she learned creating characters for Marvel and DC Comics and perfected over the hundreds of comics, strips, webcomics and graphic novels that defined her successful career. She shows you how to: - Find y...

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Hamilton (Author)Hamilton's famous defence of the Aesthetic Movement was first published in 1882. The contents were later updated and expanded for the third edition, of which this current edition is a reprint. A superb source of information regarding the reactions of contemporaries to Aesthetic poetry and the Pre-Raphaelite School of painting, this highly enjoyable and frequently amusing volume contains sections on Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris,...

Time & Space Visualiser: The story and history of Doctor Who as data visualisations

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Smith (Author)DOCTOR WHO AS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE!Approaching its 50th anniversary, Doctor Who is one of the longest running television programmes in the world. And probably no other is as well documented.Innumerable books and websites have been written charting the production, broadcast and universe of Doctor Who. But these text sources only give the facts and figures, they don't present the information in a visual form that can be more easily inter...

Lions & Velons: The Bestiary of Kokoro and Moon Slayer

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Report copyright infringementby Neil Hague (Author), Neil Hague (Illustrator)Lions & Velons is a unique mini-dictionary that explores even further the books and narratives illustrated by Neil Hague. It is 'more than a dictionary' or bestiary, it is an extraordinary companion to the stories of 'dualistic forces' that have battled for eons across many worlds. In this highly original and personal work, Neil gives further insight into the 'characters and creatures' that appear in his illustra...

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Report copyright infringementby Neil Hague (Author), Neil Hague (Illustrator) Number of Pages: 34 Dimensions: 0.25 x 10 x 7 IN Publication Date: July 01, 2015

Alphabets and Lettering - A Guide to Vintage Typography Design

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Report copyright infringementby Esterbrook Pen Company (Author), William Skeen (Essay by)This beautifully illustrated book showcases a wide array of alphabets and lettering styles, meticulously curated from the golden age of typography. First published in 1918, this captivating journey into the world of vintage typography breathes fresh life into classic design and letterforms. Rediscover the ancient craft of typographical design with this deep dive into beautiful alphabet variations and lett...

Better Onboarding: Effective strategies for guiding new users

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Report copyright infringementby Krystal Higgins (Author)When users try your product or service for the first time, what encourages them to come back? Onboarding can make the difference between abandoned accounts and devoted use-if we design it as a holistic, ongoing process.Krystal Higgins demonstrates how the best onboarding experiences guide people as they interact, helping them follow their own path to success. Gain practical strategies and techniques for designing effective guidance, whet...

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Report copyright infringementby Randall L. Caba (Author)The "Neon Superguide Complete How-To Manual" is the successor to the Neon Principles reference and Neon Principles Workbook. This 216-page handbook combines the previous guides with upgraded-updated illustrations and text, more helpful photos and three new chapters - more than one hundred fifty pictures, tables and illustrations in all. It also includes additional exercises, savvy tips and tricks, and eight authoritative articles first p...