Featuring full-colour illustrations, this title tells the fascinating story of Savile Row - the undisputed centre of male 'haute couture' for more than 200 years.
"In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her research on those tailors in the late 1970s. In so doing, she provides both a detailed account of her …
"In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her research on those tailors in the late 1970s. In so doing, she provides both a detailed account of her …
'The Tailor of Inverness' is a story of journeys, of how a boy who grew up on a farm in Galicia (Eastern Poland, now Western Ukraine) came to be a tailor in Inverness. His life spanned most of the 20th century. Taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1939, he was freed in an amnesty in…
A re-telling of two classic fairy tales compiled by the brothers Grimm - An inheritance for three sons: a mill, a donkey and - for the youngest son - a cat! At first, the youngest son is disappointed with his gift, but he soon discovers he is the luckiest of them all. A brave ta…
"He's been called 'America's greatest living tailor' and 'the most interesting man in the world.' Now, for the first time, Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield tells his incredible life story. Taken from his Czechoslovakian home at age fifteen and transported to the Nazi concent…
"He's been called 'America's greatest living tailor' and 'the most interesting man in the world.' Now, for the first time, Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield tells his incredible life story. Taken from his Czechoslovakian home at age fifteen and transported to the Nazi concent…
He''s been called ""America''s greatest living tailor"" and ""the most interesting man in the world."" Now, for the first time, Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield tells his incredible life story. Taken from his Czechoslovakian home at age fifteen and transported to the Nazi co…
He''s been called "America''s greatest living tailor" and "the most interesting man in the world." Now, for the first time, Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield tells his incredible life story. Taken from his Czechoslovakian home at age fifteen and transported to the Nazi concen…
"He's been called 'America's greatest living tailor' and 'the most interesting man in the world.' Now, for the first time, Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield tells his incredible life story. Taken from his Czechoslovakian home at age fifteen and transported to the Nazi concent…
A Jewish tailor journeys across the Soviet Union with a tape recorder, collecting the oral history of Jews. A panoramic portrait of Russia from the Katyn Woods massacre of World War II, to the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary.
In the near-future in a world ruled by fashion and consumerism, master tailor Tane Cedar is commissioned to create a coat out of illegal yarn in one day for his former lover Vada, a fugitive revoluationary who appears to be near death.
In the near-future in a world ruled by fashion and consumerism, master tailor Tane Cedar is commissioned to create a coat out of illegal yarn in one day for his former lover Vada, a fugitive revoluationary who appears to be near death.
