Product Description: The first book to reveal the fashion ideology of one of the most renowned Italian designers. Gianfranco Ferré was known as the architect of fashion (he graduated with a degree in architecture from Politecnico University in Milan)...read more

Product Description: This book looks at forms, uses and fabrics by cataloguing materials taken directly from various work environments. Such cataloguing is interwoven with style and research, highlighting the influence work clothes have had, not only on fashion, but also on our contemporary way of dressing...read more

Product Description: Producing a book on fashion in the 1980s is not merely a question of immortalizing one of the most feverish periods of invention, creativity and variety in our recent history. It also means providing a window on the increasingly pervasive advance of show-business society, and on the origins of the designer "total living" environment in which we are now permanently submerged...read more

Product Description: Omnivorous and indefatigable, suggestible but independent, adolescents don't want to be balanced. They love extremes of everything from fashion and art to music and the Internet. Observed and studied by experts of all kinds, their behavior monitored by psychologists, educators, and marketing executives, adolescents represent a decisive and increasingly valuable segment of the buying public...read more

Product Description: Do uniforms-- objects of fascination to many--unite or distinguish individuals? Do they create reassuring equality or disturbing balkanization? The uniform, starting point for modern dress, combines functional and formal qualities in a situation of mass production and serves to equalize individuals regardless of social status...read more