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The suit
For over 400 years the tailored suit has dominated wardrobes the world over. Its simple forms, inspired by royal, military, religious and professional clothing, have provided a functional and often elegant uniform for modern life. But whether bespoke or tailor-made, on the street or in the office, during times of celebration or of crisis, we typically take the suit for granted, ignoring its complex construction and many symbolic meanings. The Suit unpicks the story of this most familiar garment, from its emergence in western Europe at the end of the seventeenth century to today. Suit-wearing figures such as the Savile Row gentleman and the Wall Street businessman have long embodied ideas of tradition, masculinity, power and respectability, but the suit has also been used to disrupt concepts of gender and conformity. Adopted and subverted by women, artists, musicians and social revolutionaries through the decades from dandies and Sapeurs to the Zoot Suit and Le Smoking the suit is also a device for challenging the status quo. For all those interested in the history of menswear, this beautifully illustrated book offers new perspectives on this most mundane, and poetic, product of modern culture. Christopher Breward has been interviewed on BBC World Services World Update:
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Another man : men's style stories
From the editors of Another Man magazine, an epic journey into the world of men's style. Another Man magazine is revered around the world as the ultimate style bible for modern men. Elevating men's fashion to a lavish and luxurious level, it combines a singular, soulful point of view on men's style with thought-provoking, sophisticated editorial content. Using the rich wealth of the Another Man archive, remixed with handpicked material and specially commissioned work, this scrapbook narrative filled with rock and roll legends, romantic anti-heroes, and timeless fashion icons expresses the best of men's style.
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Wholesale couture : London and beyond, 1930-70
The first book to consider the subject, Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70 seeks to revise the notion that wholesale couturiers were simply copyists and demonstrate the complexities of their design processes and business strategies.
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The International Best-Dressed List : the official story
The history of the International Best-Dressed List, from its inception in 1940 by Eleanor Lambert to the present day. Includes many photos of style leaders from the worlds of entertainment, fashion, art, society, business, politics, royalty, and media.
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New fashion designers' sketchbooks
An invaluable resource for fashion students, teachers and designers, this book looks at research sketchbooks and the role they play in the research and design process. Demonstrating how ideas are constructed, for single garments as well as entire collections, the book looks at how pages and whole sketchbooks are put together. New Fashion Designers' Sketchbooks includes work and sketchbook pages from over 30 fashion designers, and examines a range of work from foundation fashion students through to professional designers. Included in the book is information about each designer on what inspires them, how they express this in their work, and how they use research sketchbooks in the design process.
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The fashion book
Fully revised and updated for 2022, this new edition of Phaidon's iconic global bestseller The Fashion Book takes a fresh look at the fashion world and the people who created and inspired it. Spanning almost 200 years, the entire industry is represented: from designers to photographers, stylists, and retailers, as well as editors and creative directors. Marking significant changes on the fashion landscape, this revised edition features important new names who have fundamentally shaped the way we see fashion in recent years, alongside fashion pioneers of the previous edition. This bestselling - and now updated - classic volume remains a comprehensive and definitive view of the fashion industry today.
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Clothing and fashion : American fashion from head to toe
This sweeping overview of fashion and apparel covers several centuries of American history as seen through the lens of the clothes we wear-from the Native American moccasin to Manolo Blahnik's contribution to stiletto heels. Through four detailed volumes, this work delves into what people wore in various periods in our country's past and why-from hand-crafted family garments in the 1600s, to the rough clothing of slaves, to the sophisticated textile designs of the 21st century.More than 100 fashion experts and clothing historians pay tribute to the most notable garments, accessories, and people comprising design and fashion. The four volumes contain more than 800 alphabetical entries, with each volume representing a different era. Content includes fascinating information such as that beginning in 1619 through 1654, every man in Virginia was required to plant a number of mulberry trees to support the silk industry in England; what is known about the clothing of enslaved African Americans; and that there were regulations placed on clothing design during World War II.
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Out-of-style : a modern perspective of how, why and when vintage fashions evolved : men, women and children 19th through 20th centuries and beyond
Over 700 sequential, authoritative black and white line drawings of clothes worn by men, women and children from the 19th into the 21st century, including variations of styles that were worn simultaneously and the popular hair styles of each era. Succinct descriptive text accompanies each drawing.--Publisher.
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