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DHARMA OF FASHION: A BUDDHIST APPROACH TO OUR LIFE WITH CLOTHES
Written by Von Busch, Otto
Our desires for fashion, our addiction to cheap clothes, our fixation on surface looks . . . can we find ways to make what we wear more positive? Here's a quirky, irreverent way to consider what's a more sustainable way to be with--and still enjoy--fashion. This little book shows that fashion isn't shallow but connects us to the depths of existence.
GLOW FROM WITHIN
Written by Vargas, Joanna
Celebrity aesthetician Joanna Vargas shares her secrets for the first time in this practical, engaging guide to beautiful, glowing skin for everyone.Celebrity aesthetician Joanna Vargas is known for her cutting-edge beauty treatments, high-end products, and famous (and seemingly ageless) clients.
HOW TO WEAR SOCKS
Written by Jannuzzi, John
A giftable illustrated guide to wearing socks, packed with history, upkeep and maintenance tips, and style advice Socks, a bare necessity in anyone's wardrobe, are often a one-and-done, wear-it-if-it's-clean kind of garment. You put them on, pull them up, and go about the rest of your day. But there's a lot more to a good sock than meets the eye, or the foot.
INVISIBLE JUMPERS
Written by Ford, Joseph
Photographs of jumpers blending into their background from an inventive 1000-hour knitting project Photographer Joseph Ford and knitting pro Nina Dodd have dedicated more hours than is reasonable to creating bespoke knitwear pieces (for both humans and animals) that blend seamlessly into their surroundings - from bus seats to bushes, carpets to coastlines.
ART OF WEARABLE FLOWERS: FLORAL RINGS, BRACELETS, EARRINGS, NECKLACES, AND MORE (HOW TO MAKE 40 FRESH FLORAL ACCESSORIES, FLOWER JEWELRY BOOK)
Written by McLeary, Susan
The Art of Wearable Flowers reveals the secrets to creating gorgeous floral accessories that you can wear. This guide provides how-tos for 40 floral wearables, including an eye-catching succulent ring, gorgeous hyacinth hoop earrings, a fabulous petal necklace, and a luxurious headpiece, plus bracelets, corsages, headbands, and more.
DRAPING: THE COMPLETE COURSE: SECOND EDITION
Written by Kiisel, Karolyn
Draping--the art of using fabric to design directly on a dress form--is an essential skill for fashion students. Starting with the basics of preparing the dress form and fabric, the book advances through pinning, trimming, and clipping, and creating shape using darts and tucks, to adding volume using pleats and gathers, and handling complex curves.
FROM THE ARCHIVE RIMOWA
Written by Rimowa
Over a 100 years of travel essentials by the collectible luxury luggage brand RIMOWA, whose signature aluminum cases have forever entered the contemporary design lexicon. Since its beginnings in 1898 in Cologne, Germany, RIMOWA has been at the forefront of innovation, with a heritage marked by crafting the highest quality luggage for voyagers of every era.
WILLI SMITH: STREET COUTURE
African-American fashion designer Willi Smith, pioneer of streetwear and visionary collaborator, finally gets his due in an exuberant celebration of his life and work. Before Off-White, before Hood By Air, before Supreme, there was WilliWear.
BATA SHOE MUSEUM: A GUIDE TO THE COLLECTION
Written by Semmelhack, Elizabeth
The Bata Shoe Museum has an extraordinary collection of more than 14,000 artifacts, dating from as far back as 4,500 years to the present day.
WORLD AT YOUR FEET: BATA SHOE MUSEUM
Written by Semmelhack, Elizabeth
The Bata Shoe Museum has an extraordinary collection of more than 14,000 artifacts, dating from as far back as 4,500 years to the present day. Founded by Sonja Bata, the museum is one of the largest shoe collections in the world and is a wonderful source of inspiration for designers across the globe, including Manolo Blahnik, Christian Louboutin, Nicholas Kirkwood, and Sophia Webtser, among others.The one hundred shoes featured in this volume are among the most important in the collection and display a fantastic array of styles. Creative director and senior curator Elizabeth Semmelhack uses these treasured examples to discuss society, culture, gender, fashion, and other facets of history that are revealed through the study of footwear.The Bata Shoe Museum is located in Toronto, Canada, in a gem of a building designed by Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama. Since its opening in 1995, the museum has welcomed more than two million visitors to more than forty exhibitions. It is also renowned for its ground-breaking research and is consistently celebrated as one of the top fashion museums in the world.ABOUT THE AUTHORElizabeth Semmelhack is the creative director and senior curator of the Bata Shoe Museum, and her work focuses on the intersections of fashion, economics, and gender with a particular interest in the history of footwear. She has curated over twenty exhibitions for the Bata Shoe Museum, including the blockbuster traveling exhibition The Rise of Sneaker Cultureand the ground-breaking exhibitions Standing Tall: The Curious History of Men in Heels, On a Pedestal: Renaissance Chopines to Baroque Heelsand Heights of Fashion: A History of the Elevated Shoe,each with an accompanying publication.A celebration of life, love, and loss through the shoes we have worn, as seen in the extraordinary Bata Shoe Museum collection. The Bata Shoe Museum, the largest shoe collection in the world, celebrates fabulous footwear across the ages in beautifully curated displays, exhibiting styles from tiny Chinese bound-foot shoes to French chestnut-
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