Traces the life of the American fashion designer, and shows and describes his major designs for evening gowns and coats

Product Description: This state-specific guide to criminal justice includes comprehensive coverage of criminal law and the courts, the police, corrections and the juvenile justice system. Also included are state-specific crime statistics as well as coverage of sentencing, drugs and crime and capital punishment...read more

A simplified, abridged version of Black Beauty's experiences with both good and bad masters in nineteenth-century England, accompanied by a short biography of Anna Sewell and an essay focusing on the story's lessons of kindness.

Product Description: In Marks, Richard Martin brings his readers poems written on the edgy surface of temporary disclosure. Unrehearsed messages, the poems revel in insight and linguistic play. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Photographs display important costumes and accessories of the past three centuries

Containing illustrations of paintings by Picasso, Braque, Delaunay and Leger, and designs by Chanel, Vionnet and Callot Soeurs, this is a study of the interrelationship between fashion and Cubism in the early-20th century. Published to accompany a 1998/9 exhibition at The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, it sets out to demonstrate how fashion's newly planar forms and cylindrical, waistless silhouette exemplified Cubism's interpretation of the body. Fashion illustration and photography of the period also followed the precepts of Cubist imagery, with its indeterminate space, cylinders, cones and rotation. The author, a fashion historian, traces Cubism's continuing synergy with fashion up to the present day. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Full of the energy readers and listeners have come to expect from Richard Martin, the leaping, compassionate, and incisive poems in Modulations will appeal to a wide range of readers.

Presents images from both the late designer's private art collection and fashion photography featuring his designs

Product Description: A study of mid-twentieth-century American sportswear.

The companion volume to a commemorative exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City analyzes the late clothing designer's work, themes, and inspiration and displays it in 120 full-color illustrations. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A guide to Versace's kaleidoscopic vision of male beauty and men's fashion which captures some of his best known clients, such as Jeremy Irons, Sting, Mickey Rourke, Jeff Bridges and k. d. lang, in stunning outfits.

Traces the history of the tango, describes dancers and musicians associated with the dance, and looks at the tango in art and movies

Product Description: "T is for Toreador, Toga, Tattoo...".With irrelevant wit, a sharp eye, and a brilliant palette of colors, Ruben Toledo both celebrates and skewers fashion trends. His playful illustrated alphabet will tickle not only beauty-business insiders but anyone who has ever marveled at the variety of personal statements visible in any sidewalk promenade...read more

Published 50 years after Christian Dior's "New Look" of 1947, and accompanying an exhibition at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this book presents a chronology of Dior's creations. They are drawn chiefly from the Costume Institute's collections, which include an extensive record of the designer's achievement as recognized by his New York clients of the 1940s and 1950s. Among the illustrations are extravagant evening wear, chic accessories, and details of Dior tailoring, as well as documentary photographs from the Dior Archives, Paris. The text places Dior's achievement in the cultural perspective of post-war renewal: the desire for optimism, the return to innocence, and the reclaiming of the pleasures of fine clothing and other sumptuary arts. Analyzing the "New Look", the authors set out to demonstrate the abiding impact of Dior's formulation of an icon for fashion's post-war renaissance. [This book was originally published in 1996 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]

One of today's most sought-after and accomplished photographers exhibits the full range of his landmark work, from elegant fashion tableaux and witty celebrity portraits to sultry nudes and African panoramas.

Product Description: The most thorough survey of the contemporary world of fashion to date, The St. James Fashion Encyclopedia covers nearly 200 clothing designers, milliners, footwear designers, companies and textile houses. This beautifully illustrated volume features famous as well as fledgling artists and houses from all over the world, inlcuding Georgia Armani, Laura Ashley, Coco Chanel, Ralph Lauren and Adrienne Vitadini...read more

This is a survey of the history of haute couture, from the formation of the House of Worth in mid-19th-century Paris to the major designers of the present day. The book focuses on the highly skilled crafts that are essential to the production of haute couture. Separate chapters examine tailoring techniques and finishes, weaving, draping, and the intricate decoration produced by embroiderers, feather-makers, and other craftspeople on whom couturiers rely for the execution of their ideas. [This book was originally published in 1995 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]