Lets you meet the animals on Bramble Farm and find out what they do all day. Featuring cows, pigs, sheep and a rascally sheepdog, this title offers an introduction to the farm for little children.
This well-researched cloth book has been developed to appeal to babies from birth. The mix of high-contrast images, crinkly pages and mirror will stimulate baby`s senses and make this a perfect first introduction to books. Babies love looking at faces and will find the friendly images of animal faces and patterns fascinating. The book also has a strap, so it can be attached to cots or buggies, and very simple text to help parents discuss the images with baby. It`s never too early to give baby the gift of books.
Ideal for very young children, this sturdy board book is full of favourite farmyard creatures. With bold illustrations and chunky flaps to lift, this is a perfect introduction to animals and counting. This is the classic title with a fresh new cover look.
ISBN: 978-0-230-74775-3
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
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
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...
Instead of focusing on the designers that have made their marks in the past decades, this original and inspiring portrayal of style icons features the unforgettable faces and bodies that helped propel designers into the limelight over the years. Organized by timeless style sensibilities that reflect distinctive fashion identities, the book features a wide array of fashion icons, including sophisticates such as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Audrey Hepburn, it-girls like Edie Sedgewick and ChloA Sevigny, bombshells like Marylin Monroe and Brigitte Bardot, and eccentrics like Bjork and Grace Jones. Each fashion icon is given her own generous two-page spread. Beautiful photographs illustrate how the subject personifies a certain quality of...
ISBN: 978-3-7913-3936-8
Издательство:
Prestel
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This book covers the complete process of making fashion prints from the design of the prints to the final product on a garment. The book is divided into two parts: one devoted to the creative process of developing a design and the second focused on the technical aspects of producing the design. The book discusses not only the various systems for producing prints but also the problems and practicalities of printing on a wide variety of different fibres as well as the problems inherent in the use of various colours. The book also contains a large gallery of different types of prints classified by themes in accordance with the latest trends in fashion.
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 makes a man a fashionisto? Swagger, elegance, daring, perhaps a really well cut suit. The actors, designers, crooners and legends portrayed in this collection are fashion forward men who possess some or all of the above-and they have it in spades. Fred Astaire and Bryan Ferry, Truman Capote and Che Guevara, George Clooney and Boy George all find a place in this fun and fascinating exploration of what makes a man into an icon. From Oscar Wilde`s penchant for velvet to Don Johnson`s Miami style, the cool aloofness of Johnny Depp and Kurt Cobain, or the characters of Ziggy Stardust and James Bond - all are featured in double page spreads with glossy full color pictures and Simon Werle`s acute observations, anecdotes, and historical...
ISBN: 978-3-7913-4476-8
Издательство:
Prestel
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
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.
This is the first book to offer a thorough grounding in the principles of fashion design. It describes the qualities and skills needed to become a fashion designer, examines the varied career opportunities available and gives a balanced inside view of the fashion business today. Its broad, up-to-date approach unites history, theory and practice. Subjects covered include: how to interpret a project; building a collection; choosing fabric; fit, cutting and making techniques; portfolio presentation, and fashion marketing and economics. This new edition introduces many of the new technological developments impacting the fashion industry in the 21st century. There are expanded discussions of drawing and making techniques; how to assemble a...
ISBN: 978-1-85669-436-0
Издательство:
Thames & Hudson
Дата выхода: июль 2012
The work of nearly thirty of the world`s top up-to-the-minute illustrators is organized into three different styles. The sensualists - for example, François Berthoud - adhere to a fluid, fine-arts tradition. Others, such as Jean-Philippe Delhomme, focus on characters: smoky-eyed gamines and sophisticated 50s-style divas. And here, for the first time in any survey, is the computer-generated work of the leading technocrats, among whom are Graham Rounthwaite and Jason Brooks. As well as work drawn from artists’ collections and from international fashion and style magazines, Fashion Illustration Now includes scores of specially commissioned illustrations. With biographical and contact information for each artist, this is a guide for...
ISBN: 978-0-500-28234-2
Издательство:
Thames & Hudson
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
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
A complete fashion school for drawing and painting fashion figures, garments, and accessories for all aspiring fashion illustrators and designers. Designed for newcomers and improvers, this book shows you how to construct the head and figure, compose for impact, and use all available media. Practical, interactive and beautiful, instruction will be via step exercises, hardworking fashion sketches and beautiful fashion illustrations.
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
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
