Download or read book The Power of Style written by Christian Allaire and published by Annick Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Style is not just the clothes on our backs—it is self-expression, representation, and transformation. As a fashion-obsessed Ojibwe teen, Christian Allaire rarely saw anyone that looked like him in the magazines or movies he sought out for inspiration. Now the Fashion and Style Writer for Vogue, he is working to change that—because clothes are never just clothes. Men’s heels are a statement of pride in the face of LGTBQ+ discrimination, while ribbon shirts honor Indigenous ancestors and keep culture alive. Allaire takes the reader through boldly designed chapters to discuss additional topics like cosplay, make up, hijabs, and hair, probing the connections between fashion and history, culture, politics, and social justice. *A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Download or read book Forms Fashions written by Ney Mitch and published by Satin Romance. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will wonders ever cease? Not only has Kitty suffered being the first Bennet sister to reject a marriage proposal, but she finally has gotten her sister, Mary, to come to terms with her secret adoration for a man that is beyond her reach. However, this only leads to sisterly tension between them, where both sisters lead to saying things that wound the other. Meanwhile, Jane has visited Netherfield Park and fallen ill. Elizabeth goes to be with her, and they both return to Longbourn after undergoing a few trials. During all this, Kitty must face the man she rejected, face Mary, who she is avoiding, watch Jane fall in love with a man she once fancied, meet Mr. Collins, the dreaded cousin, and all the while Lieutenant Finlay is in the background, who is still a bit of a mystery to her. And all while this occurs, there is the other question: what of Longbourn? Here comes Book II of Pride and Prejudice, from Kitty Bennet’s perspective!

Download or read book Form Fit Fashion written by Jay Calderin and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable primer for students and first-stop reference for professionals, Form, Fit, and Fashion guides the fashion designer through the entire design process, from conceiving a garment to marketing it. This handbook collects the information and ideas essential to planning and executing fashion projects of every scale and distills them in an easy-to-use format that is compact enough to slip into a tote. Linking six central phases in the cycle of fashion—research, editing, design, construction, connection, and evolution—Form, Fit, and Fashion will help designers to develop effective strategies for building a cohesive collection and communicating their vision.

Download or read book The Fashion Designer s Directory of Shape and Style written by Simon Travers-Spencer and published by B.E.S. Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 1,200 detailed illustrations provide the building blocks for designing imaginative and original clothing.

Download or read book When Etudes Become Form written by Etudes and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Études is a fresh and a comprehensive look at a hot fashion-and-art at collective, documenting its evolution into an arbiter of contemporary cool. Based in Paris and Brooklyn, Etudes is one of most innovative brands in fashion and street wear today. With a look dominated by bold graphics and a sleek, relaxed silhouette intended for both men and women, the brand's unique, transatlantic style has drawn a young, sophisticated following. Established in 2012 by Aurélien Arbet and Jérémie Egry, Études' star rose rapidly, making it on the official calendar of Paris Fashion Week less that two years after its founding. Occupying a role more in keeping with insurgent Japanese brands from Harajuku, Études is a fashion label, a creative agency and publishing house with a focus on art & photography. With a goal of becoming a total lifestyle label, the brand's approach is demanding, coherent, consistent and resolutely contemporary. This book presents the wide array of fashion, art, and style that Études has facilitated since its founding. Filled with over 200 photographs and illustrations documenting work and collaborations with highly applauded artists and brands including Kara Walker, Ari Marcopoulus, RETROSUPERFUTURE, Devonte Hynes, Matthew Chambers, Mark Gonzales as well as a selection of interviews and essays commissioned specially for this book, Études is an engaging volume that highlights an ethic of collaboration that is one of the most fashion-forward of any contemporary fashion and street wear labels.

Download or read book Stitch Magic written by Alison Reid and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sourcebook of stitching techniques, together with twenty projects demonstrating how to use them, helps you to become your own textile designer, stitching fabric into fresh, new forms by hand and machine. Techniques covered include pleating, pintucking, cording, quilting, embroidery, appliqué, hand-stitch marks and smocking. Stitch magic is the ideal reference for anyone who has basic knowledge of sewing but wants to branch out into creating his or her own textiles.

Download or read book Fetish Style written by Frenchy Lunning and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fetish Style traces the history, forms and tendencies of fetish fashions popular in both mainstream and subcultural fashion.

Download or read book Faith Form and Fashion written by Paul Helm and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed examination of the theological innovations of Kevin Vanhoozer and John Franke. Each proposes that doctrinal and systematic theology should be recast in the light of postmodernity. No longer can Christian theology be foundational, or have a stable metaphysical and epistemological framework. Vanhoozer advocates a theo-dramatic reconstruction of Christian doctrine, replacing the timeless propositions of the "purely cerebral theology" of the Reformed tradition in favor of a theology that does justice to the polyphony of multiple biblical genres. Franke holds that theology is part of a three-way conversation between Scripture, tradition, and culture, with an uncertain outcome. This study shows that each of these proposals is based on misunderstanding and exaggeration, and that the case against foundationalism is unclear and unpersuasive. It is argued that Vanhoozer's appeal to revelation as divine speech-acts is not as radical as he thinks, and his epistemology is weak. In the hands of postmodernity, Christian theology abandons its exactness and the standards of care that are a notable feature of doctrinal constrictions. The book will be of importance to those with interest in Reformed theology or Christian theology more generally. It provides a clear assessment of the impact of the postmodern mindset on theology.

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry written by Francesca Sterlacci and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007-11-19 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry examines the origins and history of this billion-dollar industry. This is done through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced entries on designers, models, couture houses, significant articles of apparel and fabrics, trade unions, and the international trade organizations.

Download or read book Fashion Plates written by April Calahan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The images featured in Fashion Plates: 150 Years of Style are part of an extensive collection of such plates held by Special Collections & College Archives, a unit of the Gladys Marcus Library at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York"--Preface.

Download or read book Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth Century America written by and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America

Download or read book Bad Form written by Kent Puckett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What--other than embarrassment--could one hope to gain from prolonged exposure to the social mistake? Why think much about what many would like simply to forget? In Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Kent Puckett argues that whatever its awkwardness, the social mistake-the blunder, the gaffe, the faux pas-is a figure of critical importance to the nineteenth-century novel. While offering significant new readings of Thackeray, Flaubert, Eliot, James, and others, Puckett shows how the classic realist novel achieves its coherence thanks to minor mistakes that novels both represent and make. While uncovering the nineteenth-century novel's persistent social and structural reliance on the non-catastrophic mistake-eating peas with your knife, saying the wrong thing, overdressing-Bad Form argues that the novel's once considerable cultural authority depends on what we might otherwise think of as that authority's opposite: a jittery, anxious, obsessive attention to the mistakes of others that is its own kind of bad form. Drawing on sociology, psychoanalysis, narrative theory, and the period's large literature on etiquette, Puckett demonstrates that the nineteenth-century novel relies for its form on the paradoxical force of the social mistake.

Download or read book Sew Very Easy Quilt Favorites written by Laura Coia and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn quilting basics from a YouTube sensation and practice your skills with 12 fun projects suitable for all skill levels. Her instructional videos have inspired thousands to start sewing. Now for the first time, sew-lebrity Laura Coia shares written patterns for the most loved video tutorials on her “Sew Very Easy” YouTube channel! Learn the basics of quilt making, from cutting and pressing to borders and finishing. Then practice your skills with a dozen beautiful projects—quilts you’ll come back to time and time again—all suitable for beginners and beyond.

Download or read book Fashion Forms written by April Chorba and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create super chic, three-dimensional fashions -- no sewing required! Those clever style mavens at the house of Paper Fashions are taking fashion fun to a whole new dimension. With Fashion Forms, kids create fully formed outfits that are amazing from any angle. These stylish looks go beyond flat paper fashions -- think chic paper sculptures! The book comes with innovative plastic guides that you use like real sewing patterns to trace and cut the included double-sided designer papers. The resulting paper shapes can be easily folded, wrapped, rolled, and creased into indispensable fashion pieces: tops, skirts, coats, and more. Inspirational photos, step-by-step instructions, and how-to illustrations make assembly simple -- even showing exactly where to put each drop of glue for the smoothest seams. Combine the pieces to create outfits in your own style, whether classic, romantic, or trendy. Then use the included ribbons and sequins to embellish your creations. Add rows of tissue paper ruffles or a flower corsage. Complete the look by constructing coordinating purses and even adorable little shoes. Finally, display your finished fashion line on the included custom hangers and freestanding dress stands. Gorgeous!

Download or read book Fashion Dress and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Narratives written by Noemí Pereira-Ares and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first book-length study to explore the sartorial politics of identity in the literature of the South Asian diaspora in Britain. Using fashion and dress as the main focus of analysis, and linking them with a myriad of identity concerns, the book takes the reader on a journey from the eighteenth century to the new millennium, from early travel account by South Asian writers to contemporary British-Asian fictions. Besides sartorial readings of other key authors and texts, the book provides an in-depth exploration of Kamala Markandaya’s The Nowhere Man (1972), Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), Meera Syal’s Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee (1999) and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003).This work examines what an analysis of dress contributes to the interpretation of the featured texts, their contexts and identity politics, but it also considers what literature has added to past and present discussions on the South Asian dressed body in Br itain. Endowed with an interdisciplinary emphasis, the book is of interest to students and academics in a variety of fields, including literary criticism, socio-cultural studies and fashion theory.

Download or read book Fashion and Fetishism written by David Kunzle and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2006-08-24 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the history of corsetry and body sculpture, this edition shows how the relationship between fashion and sex is closely bound up with sexual self-expression. It demonstrates how the use of the corset rejected the role of the passive, maternal woman, so that in Victorian times it was seen as a scandalous threat to the social order.

Download or read book Fashion and Authorship written by Gerald Egan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of fashion and literature in recent decades have focused primarily on representations of clothing and dress within literary texts. But what about the author? How did he dress? What where her shopping practices and predilections? What were his alliances with modishness, stylishness, fashion? The essays in this book explore these and other questions as they look at authors from the eighteenth century through the postmodern and digital eras, cultural producers who were also men and women of fashion: Alexander Pope, Hester Thrale, Mary Robinson, Lord Byron, William Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, Margaret Oliphant, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Trudi Kanter, Angela Carter, and Martin Margiela. The essays collected here ultimately converge upon a fundamental question: what happens to our notions of timeless literature when authorship itself is implicated in the transient and the temporary, the cycles and materials of fashion? “Gerald Egan’s provocative introduction to this exciting new book poses a bold question: How are authorship and literature – so often linked to ideas of transcendence – implicated in the transient trends and stuff of fashion? The thirteen chapters that follow track authorship’s complex implication in the discourses and materiality of fashion and fashionable goods from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Wide-ranging in discipline and chronology, yet forensically focused and carefully argued, this book makes a striking and wonderfully original contribution to studies of authorship, celebrity and material culture.” — Dr Jennie Batchelor, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies,University of Kent, UK