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Celebrity model Ines de La Fressange shares the well-kept secrets of how Parisian women maintain effortless glamour and timeless allure. Ines de La Fressange Frances icon of chic shares her personal tips for living with style and charm, gleaned from decades in the fashion industry. She offers specific pointers on how to dress like a Parisian, including how to mix affordable basics with high-fashion touches, and how to accessorize. Her step-by-step dos and donts are accompanied by fashion photography, and this book is personalized w... read more

Ever wondered how Marie Antoinette wore her hair? How can you make a tasselled belt? Do you know which fashion trends were the most popular in the 80s? With hundreds more drawings to complete and colour in, garments to design and textile patterns to invent, My Even More Wonderful World of Fashion takes your imagination even further into the creation of exciting new styles, clothing and accessories. From shoes, to sunglasses, 50s cocktail dresses, African jewellery and feathered masks, Nina Chakrabarti's beautiful illustrations spa... read more

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With 350 illustrations, this visual book shows fashion as it is being invented, through the pages of magazines that shaped taste through their superb fashion editing, photography, and art direction.

Each book in this inspired series by fashion writer Camilla Morton inventively reimagines one of our favorite "Once Upon a Time" stories, blending it with the real-life story of a famed fashion designer. Lushly illustrated by the designers themselves, these tales illuminate each iconic individual's creative magic while celebrating his unique life and career. The result is an intriguing combination of whimsy and memoir. In this contemporary twist on the tale of the "Elves and the Shoemaker", Manolo Blahnik's delightful drawings evok... read more

In the vein of the tremendously successful "This Little Piggy Went to Prada" comes "Birds of a Feather Shop Together", a delicious anthology of style-focused fables for the modern-day fashionista. Combining classic story motifs with alluring images of modern fashion and beauty, "Birds of a Feather Shop Together" offers timeless wisdom in a package that's perfect for today's style-savvy shopper. Written by "New York Times" bestselling author Sandra Bark-a collaborator on Kat Von D's "High Voltage Tattoo" and "The Tattoo Chronicles" ... read more

This book documents in pictures the most exciting and diverse period in fashion: from 1900 to today, covering high society, uniforms, sportswear, streetwear and couture. It will appeal to everyone with an interest in fashion as well as students. The last hundred or so years bore witness to the transformation of womens fashion. The restrictive corsetry of the early twentieth century gave way to looser styles such as those made fashionable by French fashion designer Paul Poiret. As womens lives changed dramatically under the shadow o... read more

Encourages creativity, with illustrations to colour in and designs to finish off, as well as simple ideas for making and doing - how to make a sari, turn a napkin into a headscarf, dye a t-shirt, etcetera. This book features illustrations that span both vintage fashions and contemporary designs from the illustrator's own imagination.

Glamour. Flair. Style. Panache. Call it what you will, the women who feature in this collection of interviews and essays on style from Clare Press, have it in spades. Clare, one of Australia's most accomplished fashion writers, has collected advice on how to live well from women who know icons such as Diana Vreeland, Wallis Simpson and Elsie de Wolfe, as well as her favourite local style-setters and chicest friends. Whether you want tips on how to shop, how to host (and dress for) an indulgent afternoon tea, how to choose the perfe... read more

An extraordinary monograph created by Christian Louboutin, renowned for his beautifully crafted handmade shoes, in particular his elegantly sexy stilettos. This stunning volume, with a fanciful and intricate pop-up, an elaborate foldout cover, and dramatic still-life photography, evokes the artistry and theatricality of Louboutin's shoe designs.Celebrated for his vertiginously high stilettos with their signature lacquer-red soles, Louboutin has achieved cult status with celebrities as well as fashionistas. His eclectic and exotic d... read more

A designer, editor, model, muse, and stylist, Ms Daphne Guinness is renowned for the way she uses fashion to transform herself. This title explains the origins and characteristics of her style. It discusses her friendships and collaborations with other creative fashion personalities from the late Isabella Blow to the photographer Steven Klein.

Coco Chanel (1883-1971) is one of the twentieth century's most captivating personalities and a defining figure in fashion history. Yet whoever attempts to understand Chanel's life is confronted by countless myths, half-truths and rumours. In this book Justine Picardie discovers the woman behind the legend, and tells Chanel's story with a flair and clarity of which Coco herself would approve. "Chanel Her Life" explores every facet of Chanel's universe: her fascinating private life as well as the famous icons of her fashion empire th... read more

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IMPACT is the definitive celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, exploring the effect of the careers of America's most influential designers over the last five decades. Anchored by Patricia Mear's illuminating essay on the history of the CFDA, the book incorporates over three hundred designer's personal statements and images. Illustrated with many never before seen images from the most important names in American fashion accompanied by insightful and reflective essays written by the desig... read more

Bringing together original, cutting-edge contributions from leading international scholars across a range of disciplines, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in exploring the intersections and changing relationship between fashion and art, past and present.

Founded in 1 961, Yves Saint Laurent has been one of the greatest names in fashion ever since. Throughout the years, the groundbreaking designs of the couture house created innovative and trend-setting pieces of clothing and then, Yves Saint Laurent became the first couture house to launch, in 1966, the modern concept of luxury women's ready-to-wear clothing, in a collection called Rive Gauche. It was followed in 1969 by a Rive Gauche men's line. The Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche boutiques were soon opened throughout the world. In... read more

The ultimate shopping bible. Embraces shopping on a grand scale and is the perfect gift for the passionate shopper. Australian edition fully revised with a new chapter.

This unprecedented volume accompanies the first exhibition to consider the impact of Spain's culture, history, and art on one of its greatest designers of the twentieth century, the legendary Balenciaga. Hailed as "Fashion's Picasso" by Cecil Beaton, Cristobal Balenciaga (1895-1972) created an innovative oeuvre that transformed the way women dressed. From the opening of his Paris fashion house in 1937 until his retirement in 1968, Balenciaga's visionary, ever-evolving designs and impeccable standards seduced generations of the most... read more

Cristobal Balenciaga made his name in Paris in the 1940s and 1950s in the golden age of haute couture, and was hailed by Coco Chanel as the only true couturier amongst us, able to design, cut, assemble and sew a dress entirely by himself. His clients included Princess Grace of Monaco and the Duchess of Windsor. This book is published to mark the long awaited inauguration of the Balenciaga Museum in Getaria, Guipuzcoa, Spain, which will house a permanent collection of over 100 pieces created by the master designer. Four introductory... read more

Jean Paul Gaultier celebrates the three-decade career of this provocative French fashion designer, who began as an assistant with no formal training and has risen to the rank of grand couturier. His risque and often irreverent styles-think Madonna's iconic cone bra from the 1990 Blonde Ambition tour-have earned him the designation of couture's enfant terrible. This stunning monograph explores the range of Gaultier's collections: his interpretation of modern Parisian life, play with gender roles, metropolitan style, and streetwear l... read more