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Vera Wang : a passion for bridal and lifestyle design
A biography of fashion designer Vera Wang.
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The lost art of dress : the women who once made America stylish
\"A tribute to a time when style--and maybe even life--felt more straightforward, and however arbitrary, there were definitive answers.\" -- Paris Review As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to dress.We lack the fashion know-how we need to dress professionally and beautifully.
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Bonnie Cashin : chic is where you find it
An exhilarating look at the quintessential American modernist, acclaimed for her \"Auntie Mame\" lifestyle, her iconoclastic approach to fashion, and her visionary designs for the modern American woman. Brimming with a half-century of creative work, 'Bonnie Cashin' celebrates the designer's incredible, well-traveled life and her revolutionary designs with an unflinching, happy elegance.
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Fancy party gowns : the story of fashion designer Ann Cole Lowe
\"As soon as Ann Cole Lowe could walk, her momma and grandma taught her to sew. When her mom died, Ann continued sewing dresses. It wasn't easy, especially when she went to design school and had to learn alone, segregated from the rest of the class. But the work she did set her spirit soaring, as evidenced in the clothes she made. Rarely credited, Ann Cole Lowe became \"society's best kept secret.\" This beautiful picture book shines the spotlight on a figure who proved that with hard work and passion, any obstacles can be overcome.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Young Originals : Emily Wilkens and the teen sophisticate
\"In the early 1940s, American designer Emily Wilkens went beyond her previous experience in children's wear to create costumes for two teenage characters in a Broadway play. Recognizing the growing importance of the teenager in American culture, she soon launched Emily Wilkens Young Originals, the first designer label specializing in upscale, fashionable clothing for teenage girls. Within the space of a few years, Wilkens skyrocketed from obscurity to national recognition, yet even today many fashion insiders would not recognize her name. Fashion historian Rebecca Jumper Matheson explores intertwining stories of female agency through the history of Wilkens and her teenage clientele. Wilkens retained both artistic and business control over her label in an era when most American ready-to-wear designers were anonymous employees of manufacturers. Wilkens parleyed her relative youth into a big-sister image which, like her dresses themselves, allowed her to mediate between the concerns of her teenage clients and their parents. Contrary to popular wisdom, Wilkens's designs declared that even a teenager could be fashionable. In doing so, Wilkens laid the foundation for the seismic shift that would occur later in the twentieth century, when youth became the fashionable ideal. Young Originals traces Wilkens's career from fashion illustrator in the 1930s to spa and beauty expert in the 1980s, emphasizing her consistent ideal of healthy, youthful beauty\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The woman I wanted to be
\"Von Furstenberg reflects on her extraordinary life from childhood in Brussels to her days as a young, jet-set princess, to creating the dress that came to symbolize independence and power for an entire generation of women, ... [mining] the rich territory of what it means to be a woman. She opens up about her family and career, overcoming cancer, building a global brand, and devoting herself to empowering other women, writing, 'I want every woman to know that she can be the woman she wants to be'\"-- Provided by publisher.
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