This is the ultimate in fashion illustration: 280 stunning sketches by a galaxy of international fashion designers - a must-have for anyone interested in fashion or the art of illustration. Sixty celebrated contemporary designers, from all the major fashion capitals, showcase their extraordinary artworks - many produced exclusively for this book. See the full list of designers. From the world-famous such as Christian Lacroix, Sonia Rykiel and Yves Saint Laurent to up-and-coming visionaries including Jens Laugesen, Rodarte and Roksanda Ilincic, all the designers display artworks that are guaranteed to amaze and inspire. Refined and elegant, cartoon-like and colourful, or edgy and graphic, they highlight the unique creative impulse behind...
ISBN: 978-0-500-51397-2
Издательство:
Thames & Hudson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
What is fashion? Who decides what`s in and what`s out? Is the catwalk really that catty? Is everyone high on drugs and full of champagne? What makes a supermodel so super? Exquisitely cut and gorgeously detailed, Fashion Babylon takes you through six months in a designer`s life. It explains how the fashion business works - the mark-ups and the come-downs the fabulous extremes and the shoddy shortcuts. Find out who goes to the shows, where they sit and whose backside they have to kiss to get there. Whether you just like a bit of shopping or you`re a hardcore fashionista, Fashion Babylon will change the way you sashay into Topshop, flick through the pages of Vogue and worship at the temple of Harvey Nichols for ever! Формат: 10,5...
ISBN: 978-0-552-15554-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
From the turn-of-the-century S-bend silhouette to the green fashion and celebrity couture of the new millennium, this comprehensive survey explores all the significant developments in fashion in a period that has seen a growing preoccupation with personal appearance and clothes. It focuses on key movements and innovations in style for both men and women, and explores these through the work of the most original and influential designers. Chapters are organized around crucial shifts in style and major world events, and exciting advances in fashion are placed within their socioeconomic, political, and cultural contexts. International in scope, this new edition includes updates on the most important new designers and the reinvention of...
The fashion brands that appear in this collection are among the most highly regarded in Japan and herein we introduce some of their commonly used marketing tools including catalogues, shopping cards and shopping bags, together with their seasonal promotional tools and novelties. This publication serves as a reference for not only other graphic designers, but also people in the fashion industry, marketing professionals and students.
ISBN: 978-4-89444-612-0
Издательство:
PIE Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
With more than 200 illustrations and brief explanations, this book offers a step-by-step introduction to the six most important methods of fashion illustration: watercolours, wax crayons, pastels, felt-tip pens, graphite and coloured pencils and collage. Readers will not only become familiar with these individual fashion-illustration techniques, but will also learn how to combine and experiment with them. The illustrations in this volume were inspired by the creations of such well-known fashion designers as Paul Poiret, Madeleine Vionnet, Coco Chanel, Cristobal Balenciaga and Frowick Halston. They show which methods are best suited for specific articles of clothing while providing a good overview of the history of fashion in the 20th...
ISBN: 978-3-8365-0407-2
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
Spray-on dresses, growable suits and self-cleaning shirts may soon become everyday items. This visionary exploration of where fashion and clothing are headed provides the first guide to the astonishing ways in which contemporary science and technology are shaping what we wear. Fashioning the Future examines the work of those scientific researchers and fashion designers, such as Issey Miyake, Hussein Chalayan and Walter Van Beirendonck, who are transforming today’s science fiction into tomorrow’s reality. Fashioning the Future is essential for those interested in the long-term future of fashion, design and lifestyle – as well as for everyone wanting to know how to stand out from the crowd.
ISBN: 978-0-500-51261-6
Издательство:
Thames & Hudson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Between the first decade of the 20th century, when women were still locked into figure-shaping corsets, to the last years of the millennium, when sexy sweats and low-rise jeans became must-have status items, fashion evolved from a luxury enjoyed by the highest echelon of society to a global business that whisks trends off the runway and into the stores before the last supermodel has left the catwalk. From full skirts to miniskirts and morning coats to leisure suits, men`s and women`s clothing design evolved so rapidly that it was all one could do to keep up and stay in style. Each decade is now associated with definable fashions, short-lived fads and signature silhouettes. And in recent decades, retro has become de rigueur, as designers...
ISBN: 978-3-8365-1461-3
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
Of all the riches of the sixteenth-century European nobleman, none spoke more powerfully of his heroism,wealth and taste than his armour, clothing and weapons. Drawing on the V+A`s popular arms and armour collection, Angus Patterson looks at the suits designed to kill, protect and impress. From parade suits, lavishly embossed and gilded, decorated with plumes of ostrich feathers and draped with colourful silk sashes, to swords, daggers, pistols and gunpowder flasks, detailed new photograpy, paintings and sculpture bring the fashion of armour to life and move armour and weapons from the armoury to the wardrobe.
ISBN: 978-1-85177-581-1
Издательство:
V&A Publishing
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Fashion Jewellery is created with the catwalk and couture in mind, characterized by its creativity and originality. It is arguably the most exciting field in fashion today. Arranged by designer, this is the first book to showcase contemporary catwalk and couture jewellery, profiling 33 international fashion jewellers who combine traditional techniques and ultra-modern methods to create this new style of jewellery. Amongst the stunning images of work shown are collaborations with leading fashion designers and brands such as Lanvin, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen and Comme des Garcons, as well as collections for directional fashion stores such as Colette and 10 Corso Como. Showcasing skilled craftsmanship, unusual materials and an...
ISBN: 978-1-85669-655-5
Издательство:
Thames & Hudson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
In "The Fashion File", Emmy Award-winning costume designer Janie Bryant lets you peek into the dressing rooms of "Mad Men", revealing the design process behind the various characters` looks and showing you how to find your own leading-lady style - whether it`s vintage, modern, classic, or bohemian.
Design and Make Hats provides a thoroughly beautiful and comprehensive introduction to the craft of millinery. First the author discusses design and inspiration, and then she takes the reader through a survey of the materials and techniques generally used in millinery. Then the reader is guided through fourteen fashionable hat designs, easy to make from inexpensive and accessible fabrics and components, clearly laid out in an instructive and attractive design. Each project is set out in a simple and straightforward way, starting with an image of the finished piece, listing the supplies you will need and the basic tools required, then following with an illustrated making sequence. Even absolute beginners can confidently and successfully...
ISBN: 978-0-7136-8738-5
Издательство:
A&C Black
Дата выхода: август 2011
Packed with instructions for techniques used by professional illustrators, this book walks the reader step-by-step through the methodology of drawing fashion. It demonstrates the best ways to create detailed fashion illustrations in a variety of media, teaching the reader about drawing, rendering and following logical steps in depicting fabric surface textures and folds that follow the form of drawn figures. This will be an essential coursebook for all student illustrators and fashion design students.
ISBN: 978-0-500-28798-9
Издательство:
Thames & Hudson
Дата выхода: август 2011
What is fashion? What is fashionable? Who decides what is in? What is out? Why is it green one year, and blue the next? Why is one little black dress worth three thousand pounds and another thirty quid? Is the catwalk that catty? Is everyone high on drugs and full of champagne? What makes a supermodel so super? And a designer too hot to touch? Who is making the money? Who owns who? Who hates who? And who`s in each other`s pocket? Following in the glamorous footsteps of Hotel Babylon and Air Babylon , Fashion Babylon will get under the well-cut skin of the fashion industry. Using a world renowned source, Fashion Babylon will take you through six months in a designer`s life. Starting at the end of one catwalk show, it will explain how a...
ISBN: 978-0-552-15443-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: май 2012
From hippie to disco to punk, this look book relives 1970s fashion via clothing advertisements from the decade. In between its covers youll find bell-bottoms and feathered hair mingling with platform shoes, Diane Von Furstenberg wrap dresses and endless amounts of polyester (what were they thinking?). Формат: 15 см x 20 см.
ISBN: 978-3-8365-1432-3
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
"Fast Forward" is a series of four courses progressing from elementary to advanced level, which are specifically designed for adults on intensive courses of 60-80 hours. The courses are independent of each other, but are linked in philosophy and approach. For each of the four levels, there are two student`s books which work in parallel: the Classbook and the Resource Book. The Classbooks concentrate on communicative skills between students in the classroom. They develop speaking and listening skills through such activities as games, role-plays and projects. The Resource books are designed for self-study. They contain self-access summaries of the grammar and communicative functions of each unit, grammar and writing exercises, and reading...
ISBN: 978-0-194-32306-2
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
You are what you eat. But do you really know what you’re eating? Britain eats more fast food than any other country in Europe. Rates of obesity and food poisoning spiral upwards, but it seems we just can’t get enough of those tasty burgers and fries. This myth-shattering book tells the story of America and the world’s infatuation with fast food, from its origins in 1950s southern California to the global triumph of a handful of burger and fried chicken chains. In a meticulously researched and powerfully argued account, Eric Schlosser visits the labs where scientists re-create the smell and taste of everything – from cooked meat to fresh strawberries; talks to the workers at abattoirs with some of the worst safety records in the...
ISBN: 0-14-100687-0
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Focused and challenging, "Fast Track to FCE" consolidates all the key grammar and vocabulary students need for the First Certificate exam, and trains them in essential exam technique. While looking at what is being tested and why, students learn how to tackle each task in the most effective way. Getting students on the right track. The Exam Practice Workbook provides: follow-up homework for the Coursebook lessons; thorough treatment of grammar and vocabulary areas tested at FCE; graded practice for Paper 3 (Use of English); additional Paper 1 (Reading) and Paper 2 (Writing) tasks, plus guidance; progress reviews and tests after every two units.
ISBN: 0-582-40581-5
Издательство:
Longman Group UK Limited
Дата выхода: октябрь 2006
Focused and challenging, "Fast Track to CAE" gives students everything they need to go for an A grade. Specially written to incorporate the 1999 modifications, "Fast Track to CAE" covers all the key grammar and vocabulary students need for the exam, and trains them in essential exam technique. While looking at what is being tested and why, students learn how to tackle each task in the most effective way. Putting students on the right track: Transparent methodology in an accessible and easy-to-use format. Grammar supported by a comprehensive reference section. Substantial Writing sections with step-by-step guidance. Detailed treatment of key vocabulary areas. Pronunciation work focusing on areas of receptive difficulty. Regular Exam...
ISBN: 0-582-32340-1
Издательство:
Longman
Дата выхода: декабрь 2007
When a down-on-her-luck divorcee meets a determined-to-dominate detective, they find out that falling in love can be Nell Dysart`s in trouble. Weighed down by an inexplicable divorce and a loss of appetite for everything, Nell is sleepwalking through life until her best friend finagles a job for her with a shabby little detective agency that has lots of potential and a boss who looks easy to manage. Gabe McKenna isn`t doing too well, either. His detective agency is wasting time on a blackmail case, his partner has decided he hates watching cheating spouses for money, and his ex-wife has just dumped The only thing that`s going his way is that his new secretary looks efficient, boring, and biddable. But looks can be deceiving and soon Nell...
* Additional practice for Paper 1 (Reading) and Paper 3 (English in Use) * Further work for Paper 2 (Writing), with analysis of sample answers * Thorough practice of the grammar presented in the Coursebook * Detailed treatment of phrasal verbs, collocation, dependent prepositions and word formation
ISBN: 978-0-582-32359-9
Издательство:
Longman
Дата выхода: июль 2011
