Fashion & textiles: design

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Fashion and museums: theory and practice

by Melchior, Marie Riegels

fromDress, body, culture

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"Why is fashion "in fashion" in museums today? This timely volume brings together expert scholars and curators to examine the reasons behind fashion's popularity in the twenty-first century museum and the impact this has had on wider museum practice. Chapters explore the role of…

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Fashion and museums: theory and practice

fromDress, body, culture

0 Type: Book

"Why is fashion "in fashion" in museums today? This timely volume brings together expert scholars and curators to examine the reasons behind fashion's popularity in the twenty-first century museum and the impact this has had on wider museum practice. Chapters explore the role of…

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Street style: an ethnography of fashion blogging

by Luvaas, Brent Adam

fromDress, body, culture

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"Street style blogging has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity over the last decade. Amateur photographers, often with no formal training in fashion, have become critical arbiters of taste and trends, influencing the representations that appear in magazines and on runways,…

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Patternmaking for dress design: 9 iconic styles from Empire to cheongsam

by Bloomsbury (Firm), Vanderlinde, Pamela

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"Patternmaking for Dress Design covers patternmaking techniques for 9 iconic dress designs, focusing not only on the concepts needed to draft patterns, but also uniquely exploring the history of each garment design to reveal what lies behind their enduring appeal today. Each cha…

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Galliano: spectacular fashion

by Taylor, Kerry

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"Galliano: Spectacular Fashion is the first detailed guide to the work of one of fashion's greatest talents. Though the designer's otherwise glittering career has been punctured by years out of the limelight, his catalogue of work remains astonishing. Written by internationally …

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Dress and ideology: fashioning identity from antiquity to the present

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Dress and fashion are powerful visual means of communicating ideology, whether political, social or religious. From the communist values of equality, simplicity and solidarity exemplified in the Mao suit to the myriad of fashion protests of feminists such as French revolutionary…

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Fashion in the time of The great Gatsby

by Lehman, Lalonnie

fromShire library

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Chronicles the sparkling spectacle of Jazz Age fashion as it moves from the corseted world of the 1910s to flapper dresses, fedoras and bejeweled headbands.

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Japanese fashion designers: the work and influence of Issey Miyake, Yohji Yam…

by English, Bonnie

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"Over the past 40 years Japanese designers have led the way in aligning fashion with art, ideology and integrity, as well as addressing identity and social politics through dress. They have demonstrated that both creative and commercial enterprise is possible in today's internat…