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Ripples: Minèa Perhonen
\"A unique blend of Scandinavian sensibility and Japanese, Mina Perhonen is characterized by a tenacious individuality that often contradicts the prevailing trends in Japanese high fashion with its emphasis on unmistakably feminine silhouettes and bright, minimalistic prints that have as much in common with the work of Alvar Aalto and Marimekko as they do with traditional Japanese design. This volume gathers the most iconic work outputted by the fashion house in the last twenty years, highlighting the rich and witty world of Mina Perhonen. A combination of new and archival photography as well as a collection of the illustrations showcase Minagawa's subtle approach to design while critical essays by Issey Miyake and Susan Brown offer insightful commentary about Minagawa's work.\"-- Publisher's website.
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Designing Hollywood
Since the 1920s, fashion has played a central role in Hollywood.As the movie-going population consisted largely of women, studios made a concerted effort to attract a female audience by foregrounding fashion.
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Coco Chanel : the legend and the life
Justine Picardie has spent the last decade puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, attempting to peel away the accretions of romance and lies. In this full-scale biography we finally discover the history of the incredible woman who created the way we look now.
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Fashion visionaries
Featuring 75 of the world's most legendary designers, this book presents the story of fashion through the fascinating personal lives and innovative collections that have shaped the field over the past century. Arranged in a broadly chronological order, this compelling book outlines the impact that inventive individuals have had on the development of fashion. Using boxed features to display key dates in the designers' careers, the text - written by an expert fashion journalist and historian - delves into the visions behind their most creative and inspirational work. Combining stunning visuals of both exciting and rare designs with insightful text, this is an inspiring guide to the designers whose vision has forged new pathways in fashion design development and forever changed the way we dress today.
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Behaviour Analysis in Binary SoC Data
Modern System-on-Chips (SoCs) are highly complex systems specified chiefly using digital clocked logic and implemented in silicon circuitry. The applications served by SoC-based products vary from tiny embedded devices to massive supercomputers. A common factor in systems across the scale is that designers require a thorough understanding of component interactions lest they sacrifice unnecessary energy, performance, development time and other important resources. The approach taken in this thesis is via behaviour analysis on key internal signals carrying binary data. Systems with appropriate instrumentation can provide engineers with signals on the workings and interactions of components in state format (e.g. transactionIsInflight ) or event format (e.g. transactionInitiated and transactionCompleted ). Gaining an understanding of a system's runtime behaviour entails uncovering knowledge about key statistics of these signals and, with equal importance, knowledge about the underlying relationships connecting them. Statistical experiments are devised to find which interpretations of the term \"correlation\" are most useful, and whether individual performance counters can be used effectively for correlation analysis over a single time window. Metrics based on covariance and independence are found to be more useful than those based on sets or geometrical concepts. Individual performance counters are shown to be inadequate for discerning useful correlation information within a single time window; however, the inclusion of at least one pairwise counter enables useful correlation metrics to be calculated. Building upon these results, a hardware design is developed to discover what is required to implement a device for passive on-chip correlation monitoring and data collection. A novel sampling method is developed out of necessity to enable correlation to be detected between signals with a slight but unknown delay, and a novel window function which enables low-cost windowing counters. The correlator device is demonstrated via integration with UltraSoC's commercial toolkit for embedded analytics in a highly complex multi-core system. It is observed that behaviour analysis involves a large amount of data that is difficult to consume using existing tools and techniques (e.g. time-series plots and tables). This is addressed by tackling the problem of how to effectively present large amounts of correlation data in a way which allows a system designer to comprehend the required statistics without being overwhelmed. This work prepares SoC designers for understanding their system's behaviour at a theoretical level via a thorough evaluation of correlation metrics, and at a practical level via an exploration of both implementation in digital logic hardware and novel visualisation techniques to present behaviour.
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Versace
\"A long-awaited and highly intimate visual history of Versace, the glamorous and globally renowned Italian fashion house. Versace, a name that epitomizes Italian opulence, bold sexiness, and a flair for the extravagant, holds its place firmly in the fashion world as a legendary and iconic luxury brand. Taking over the creative artistic direction of the family-run fashion house in 1997, the enigmatic and alluring Donatella Versace has since catapulted the brand into popular culture, cementing Versace as a go-to label for A-list celebrities. This richly illustrated tome chronicles Donatella's interpretation of Versace in the twenty-first century and her remarkable work as the curator and face of Versace. Versace includes exclusive contemporary and archival imagery from runway and backstage shots to intimate scenes at the Versace atelier, with accompanying original essays penned by fashion's most authoritative voices. Featuring arresting photography by Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, and Steven Meisel, among many others; images of Versace fashions modeled by the original \"supers,\" such as Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista; and red-carpet coverage of Hollywood's elite wearing dazzling Versace couture, this glittering volume delivers the magnetic vibrancy, supreme luxury, and glamour quotient that define Versace\"--Publisher's description.
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Borderless Fashion Practice
Twenty-first century fashion practice has become increasingly borderless and diverse in the digital era, calling into question the very boundaries that define fashion in the Western cultural context. Borderless Fashion Practice: Contemporary Fashion in the Metamodern Age principally engages the work of four fashion designers -- Virgil Abloh, Aitor Throup, Iris Van Herpen, and Eckhaus Latta -- whose work intersects with other creative disciplines such as art, technology, science, architecture, and graphic design. They do their work in what Vanessa Gerrie calls the metamodern age -- the time and place where the polarization between the modern and the postmodern collapses. Used as a framework to understand the current Western cultural zeitgeist, Gerrie's exploration of the work of contemporary practitioners and theorists finds blurred borders and seeks to blur them further, to the point of erasure.
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Dror dreams : design without boundaries
Since 2002, Dror Benshetrit has developed an interdisciplinary practice specializing in truly innovative design projects. His multifaceted approach to design at wildly varying scales and concepts encompass product design, interior design, graphic design, and architecture.0In this survey of Dror Benshetrit's first fifteen years of practice, readers are introduced to an ingenious design practice that started with household objects and furniture, to a collaborator with top brands such as Tumi, Rosenthal, Cappellini, and Bentley, and has since evolved into a visionary architecture office. 0'Dror Dreams' showcases the evolution of the designer's work, reflecting the diversification of his practice over time and the profound results that stem from its holistic approach. Told in his own approachable voice, charting his path from impassioned novice to ambitious ideator, Dror shares the conceptual origins and process behind his projects, as well as marking successes, failures, and conclusions. Dror seeks to communicate the value of creativity without limitation, promote the importance of collaboration, and through example inspire tomorrow's designers to dream big.
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Black Designers in American Fashion
From Elizabeth Keckly’s designs as a freewoman for Abraham Lincoln’s wife to flamboyant clothing showcased by Patrick Kelly in Paris, Black designers have made major contributions to American fashion. However, many of their achievements have gone unrecognized. This book, inspired by the award-winning exhibition at the Museum at FIT, uncovers hidden histories of Black designers at a time when conversations about representation and racialized experience in the fashion industry have reached all-time highs. In chapters from leading and up-and-coming authors and curators, Black Designers in American Fashion uses previously unexplored sources to show how Black designers helped build America’s global fashion reputation. From enslaved 18th-century dressmakers to 20th-century “star” designers, via independent modistes and Seventh Avenue workers, the book traces the changing experiences of Black designers under conditions such as segregation, slavery, and the civil rights movement. Black Designers in American Fashion shows that within these contexts Black designers maintained multifaceted practices which continue to influence American and global style today. Interweaving fashion design and American cultural history, this book fills critical gaps in the history of fashion and offers insights and context to students of fashion, design, and American and African American history and culture.
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