Fashion Design Course – Principles, Practice and Techniques: The Ultimate Guide for Aspiring Fashion Designers In this book, students will learn various methods of designing fashion, how to create and use inspirations, how fabric and colour strengthen a designers viewpoint, how to create dynamic fabric stories that form well-merchandized groups, and how to refine their [...]

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Author: Steven Faerm, English, NonArt, Softcover, 144pp, 222 x 222mm, ISBN: 9780500288610,
Price: (ZA)R 180

The design of lingerie is often seen as a mystery, even by professionals working in other sectors of the fashion industry. This book aims to explain the processes at work and the many unexpected influences that shape the color, silhouettes, and decoration. The book documents the rise of the deluxe lingerie brand. This interest in [...]

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Author: Katie Dominy, English, Art General, Hardcover, 192pp, 285 x 205mm, ISBN: 9781856696500,
Price: (ZA)R 300

Since his first notorious Paris show in 1981, the Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto has extended his influence year after year. His recent collections reveal him to be firmly in the ranks of the world’s greatest stylists. This disciplined, secretive, and subversive man has, during fifteen years of ferocious work, succeeded in overturning all the rules [...]

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Author: Francois Baudot, English, NonArt, Hardcover, 155x215mm, 60 Illustrations, 80pp, ISBN: 9782843237041,
Price: (ZA)R 190

Before there was Jean Paul Gaultier, there was Jacques Fath. Known as the enfant terrible of the fashion world in the 1940s and 1950s, Fath injected a sense of levity and joie de vivre into the buttoned-up world of Paris couture. Handsome, charming, youthful, and irreverent, Fath channeled his temperament into his designs. With swooping [...]

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Author: Jeromine Savignon, English, NonArt, Hardcover, 220x164mm, full colour, 80pp, ISBN: 9782759403912,
Price: (ZA)R 190

With insight and nostalgia, High Society explores the intrigue of New York s upper-class society and culture. From Greenwich Village and the Sugar House to Stone Street, author Nick Foulkes unravels Manhattan s past, starting in the early seventeenth century and leading up to the prosperous present. With stories of the residents that have made [...]

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Author: Nick Foulkes, English, NonArt, Hardcover, 300x243mm, full colour, 208pp, ISBN: 9782759402885,
Price: (ZA)R 550

Ask people who have been there, and they will all tell you India is like no other place in the world, a land that stirs every one of the five senses and stays in your heart forever. It is this India that brought together three friends, Waris Ahluwalia, Mortimer Singer and Tina Bhojwani to raise [...]

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Author: Waris Ahluwalia, Tina Bhojwani & Mortimer Singer, English, NonArt, Hardcover, Jacket, 21, ISBN: 9782759404216,
Price: (ZA)R 595

Yuppies, Yippies, Jet Setters, Bright Young Things, Generation X, Generation Y . . . and now the Gypset. Fusing the ease and carefree lifestyle of a gypsy with the sophistication of the jet set, the Gypsetters are artists, surfers, designers, and bon vivants who live and work around the globe, from Jose Ignacio, Uruguay and [...]

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Author: Julia Chaplin, English, NonArt, Hardcover, Jacket, 217x158mm, full colour, 80pp, ISBN: 9782759403967,
Price: (ZA)R 540

Her jersey draperies belong to the legends of haute couture. This amazing figure, who looked like a nun, was a viruoso who knew just how to pay tribute to the movement and freedom of the body. Within the boundaries of exoticism and adventure, she illuminated Paris with her genius before vanishing into oblivion. Beyond all [...]

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Author: Laurence Benaim, English, NonArt, Hardcover, Jacket, 217x158mm, full colour, 80pp, ISBN: 9782843234163,
Price: (ZA)R 230.00

Goddess, nymph, muse, or merely mortal, women never ceased to inspire Greek sculptors and painters. Far from representing an ideal beauty of young athletes with exultant bodies, these sensuous feminine models recount to us the ambiguous notions the Greeks had toward women. Showing both the fascination and repulsion, eroticism and damnation, this small work in [...]

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Author: Berenice Geoffroy-Schneiter, Hardcover, Jacket, 217x158mm, full colour, 80pp, ISBN: 9782843235511,
Price: (ZA)R 230

No other man has influenced American style more profoundly than Fred Astaire. Replacing the stiff-suited, aristocratic uniform of the day with his looser, more democratic look of tweed sport jackets and easy cut flannels, Astaire became a new model for the Century. Nonchalance, natural charm and effortlessness would now replace the pomp and circumstance of [...]

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Author: G. Bruce Boyer, English, NonArt, Hardcover, Jacket, 217x158mm, full colour, 80pp, ISBN: 9782843236778,
Price: (ZA)R 230