Download or read book Free Stylin written by Elena Romero and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sources interviews with scholars, urban designers, music experts, financial analysts, retailers, and hip hop celebrities to chronicle the compelling story of how hip hop transformed the fashion world and exploded into a $3 billion clothing industry. For years, designers and manufacturers took cues from the streets to enhance their clothing lines, but before the 1980s the urban consumer was never recognized as a viable demographic. In a push to appeal to young customers, the fashion industry began hiring and backing talented African American designers and entrepreneurs. This seemingly unconventional union made business sense: seasoned fashion executives brought proven track records, while aspiring designers provided street credibility and a fresh perspective on design. The end result: a multi-billion dollar industry. This book traces the fascinating unfolding of hip hop fashion from its roots to the present day. It explores how hip hop transitioned from "the hood" to the runway; how race, ethnicity, and culture played into commercialism; how celebrities impacted the fashion industry; and what ultimately led major department stores to jump on the urban bandwagon. Utilizing the author's journalistic lens and based upon interviews with urban fashion designers, entrepreneurs, fashion veterans, trend forecasters, and hip hop celebrities, each chapter is akin to an oral history that provides not just facts but also invaluable analysis and historical perspective.
Download or read book Modern Cake Decorator Airbrushing on Cakes written by Brown and published by Search Press Limited. This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thread Painting and Silk Shading Embroidery written by Margaret Dier and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thread painting embroidery is one of the most beautiful embroidery techniques. Often mistaken for painted art, it shows off the true skill of an embroiderer. This book demystifies the technique and shows how easy it is to start embroidering your own stitched masterpieces. For the true beginner and the experienced stitcher alike it will be a treasured guide, explaining the techniques and providing the inspiration to master this exquisite form of embroidery. Over 600 colour photographs support twenty step-by-step projects that range from a simply shaded topiary tree to a three-dimensional hydrangea bouquet. Guide to getting started introduces equipment you may need, explains how to transfer designs to fabric and demonstrates the long stitch and short stitch. Advice on blending colours and stitching shades together to achieve depth and vitality. Provides inspiration and encourages experimentation to create your own designs. Illustrates historical examples and explains how to reproduce and learn from these pieces, while also showcasing contemporary techniques and ideas for finished embroidery. Over 600 colour photographs support twenty step-by-step projects that range from a simply shaded topiary tree to a three-dimensional hydrangea bouquet.
Download or read book Longing written by Jennifer Koons and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josette Parks is your typical small-town girl, but she has big dreams. High school is coming to an end, and she must decide what is next. She has always wanted to get away and experience the world, but is that still how she feels? Obstacles in the form of her lifelong crush, tragedy, familiarity, and indecision have her unsure on what path to take. Will she follow her longing to spread her wings or find comfort in the place she has always called home?
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beautiful Minds written by Marina Passalaris and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything a girl needs to know about: Confidence, self-esteem , friendships , fashion, make-up, smoking, boys and relationships, Food and nutrition, bullying, skin care, etiquette, social media sites, gratitude, mother/ daughter relationships, respecting yourself, first impressions, drugs and alcohol, hair styling, money and budgeting, fear, peer pressure, beating the blues, how to be happy, setting goals and more Beautiful Minds, a journey of self discovery, is about discovering who you are, how to get through your tricky teen years and how to put your best foot forward. Meet your new best friend!
Download or read book Patriot Children Episode One Episode two Episode Three Episode four written by Richard L. Newell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God gave unto mankind sanctuaries - holy, sacred, and undefiled places; consecrated and set apart for the purpose of respectful and reverential spiritual union and worship. It makes no difference whether they be out of doors under the open sky - or man-made edifices constructed exclusively for this purpose. It is a sad state of affairs when a society becomes so warped, deranged, and unbalanced - that hardened criminals, blatant lawbreakers, illegal aliens, war-faring insurgents, corrupt political malefactors, radical reprobates, traitors, demon worshipers, and all other conspirators against God and humanity are welcomed - unchecked and unrestrained - into their midst. We invite you to follow the impact such circumstances made in the lives of the PATRIOT CHILDREN - leaving the homestead, farm, and estate which, from the time of the 1849 California gold rush, had been handed down through many generations - in the quest of pursuing a sounder, safer future in rural America's mid-south.
Download or read book Unlabel written by Marc Ecko and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most provocative entrepreneurs of our time, who started Eckō Unltd out of his parents' garage and turned it into a media empire, Marc Eckō reveals his formula for building an authentic brand or business. Marc Eckō began his career by spray-painting t-shirts in the garage of his childhood home in suburban New Jersey. A graffiti artist with no connections and no fashion pedigree, he left the safety net of pharmacy school to start his own company. Armed with only hustle, sweat equity, and creativity, he flipped a $5,000 bag of cash into a global corporation now worth $500 million. Unlabel is a success story, but it's one that shares the bruises, scabs, and gut-wrenching mistakes that every entrepreneur must overcome to succeed. Through his personal prescription for success--the Authenticity Formula--Eckō recounts his many innovations and misadventures in his journey from misfit kid to the CEO. It wasn't a meteoric rise; in fact, it was a rollercoaster that dipped to the edge of bankruptcy and even to national notoriety, but this is an underdog story we can learn from: Ecko's doubling down on the core principles of the brand and his formula for action over talk are all lessons for today's entrepreneurs. Ecko offers a brash message with his inspirational story: embrace pain, take risks, and be yourself. Unlabel demonstrates that, like or not, you are a brand and it's up you to take control of it and create something authentic. Unlabel is a groundbreaking guide to channeling your creativity, finding the courage to defy convention, and summoning the confidence to act and be competitive in any environment"--
Download or read book Buying and Believing written by Steven Kemper and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advertising is a central part of the global system of commerce and culture. Every day it exposes consumers around the world to practices associated with the West, urban life, prosperity, and modernity. One consequence of this exposure is that it frees people's imaginations from time and place, and imposes a new and foreign reality. In this book Steven Kemper looks at a parallel trend, arguing that advertising firms in Nairobi, Caracas, and Colombo also domesticate the imagination, insinuating images into people's minds of the traditional as well as the modern, the local as much as the global. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted over thirty years, Kemper examines the Sri Lankan advertising industry to show how executives draw on their skills as folk ethnographers to "Sri Lankanize" commodities and practices to make them locally desirable, essentially producing new forms of Sri Lankan culture. Addressing many of the most pressing agendas of contemporary anthropology, Buying and Becoming breaks new ground in studies of culture and globalization.
Download or read book How to Design and Apply Automotive and Motorcycle Paint and Graphics written by JoAnn Bortles and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In How to Design and Apply Automotive and Motorcycle Paint and Graphics, award-winning custom painter JoAnn Bortles covers the most popular custom painting styles and techniques in an easy-to-understand format.
Download or read book Stuck On Me written by Hilary Freeman and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More friends, fun and fame in amazing Camden Town! Sky is going through a growth spurt and, terrifyingly, her nose seems to be growing faster than the rest of her face! Sky's best friends Rosie and Vix don't understand her obsession. She's pretty - what's the problem? But when Sky's boyfriend dumps her, it's the final straw. Determined to do something about her nose she sets out on a journey that takes all three girls to parts of Camden Town they have never seen before . . .
Download or read book SPIN written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear. With dynamic photography, bold graphic design, and informed irreverence, the pages of SPIN pulsate with the energy of today's most innovative sounds. Whether covering what's new or what's next, SPIN is your monthly VIP pass to all that rocks.
Download or read book Italian Renaissance Painting written by Sara Elliott and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Works of Art written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book It Started with a Giggle written by Kirsty Ferry and published by Choc Lit. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enterprising single mom is about to discover that sometimes the best things start in the strangest ways. . . . On a night out in Edinburgh, single mom Liza-Belle Graham finds herself revealing her hopes and dreams to a green-eyed stranger. Liza always wanted to run an “arty-crafty-booky” business, and she’s seen the perfect empty shop to make her dreams a reality. No harm in telling the stranger. It’s not like she’ll see him again . . . But Scott McCreadie is no mystery man—he’s an interior designer looking for new premises. And who does Liza bump into when she arranges a viewing? None other than Scott trying to steal her perfect shop! Is Liza’s arty-crafty-booky dream in jeopardy, or is a new dream about to begin? Find out in this delightful romantic comedy featuring a very unusual cat named Schubert . . .
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Keeping Score written by Jesse Reklaw and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cartoonist Jesse Reklaw's other books (LOVF, Couch Tag) have dug deep into the themes of childhood trauma and mental illness. This new collection of diary comic strips takes the concept of "art as therapy" even further, as Reklaw uses the comics form to help maintain stability in his everyday life.
