Simon Henry

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

How to Make the Perfect One for You

The little black dress is classic, timeless and a fashion failsafe: in short, no woman should be without one. But where to find a tailor-made LBD, one that fits you perfectly and complements your body shape? The answer is to make it yourself! Even if you have never before sewn a stitch, expert dressmaker Simon Henry will guide you through the process of making the perfect little black dress. The book begins with the materials and sewing techniques you need to get started. Simon then shows you how to construct and fit a body block, based on your personal measurements. The block forms the basis for all the patterns in the book and you can go on to make your first LBD. There are three classic dresses: a chic shift; a stylish wraparound and an elegant strapless cocktail dress, with a jacket and hat to match!

The Little Black Dress

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Richard Sorger

Jenny Udale

Provides information on all aspects of fashion design, including research and design, fabrics, construction, and developing a collection.

The Fundamentals of Fashion Design

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Elinor Renfrew

Colin Renfrew

Teaching the process of developing a fashion collection from initial design through development of product to the product's exhibition and sale, this guide is an essential resource for hopeful designers.

Developing a Collection

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Anette Fischer

This volume leads the reader through the essential stages of creating a garment, from pattern cutting and draping a mannequin, to finishing and haberdashery.

Construction

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"Basics Fashion Design: Textiles and Fashion is packed with varied examples of work by talented contemporary designers and other creative people who work in the fashion industry." "This book includes researching textiles, designing textiles, textiles into production, future fabrics, natural fibres, man-made fibres, types of yarn, finishing processes, weave, knit, other forms of construction, print, embroidery and fabric manipulation, embellishment, colour, trend prediction, choosing fabrics for fashion design, designing with textiles, garment construction and jobs in the industry." --Book Jacket.

Textiles and Fashion

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Simon Seivewright

Business & Economics

Research is key to every successful design-related project. Basics Fashion Design- Research and Design explains what research is, why and where you research, and how to format and process your findings. Research and Design leads you through the essential stages of research in order to be better equipped to explore your design ideas. It explains the importance of identifying your target market and the need to understand the different levels and genres of fashion before setting out on the process of creative research. The book then explores the many avenues for researching and the need to set a theme, concept or narrative to your collection. It explains how to translate research into early design ideas and discusses a range of techniques that can be used to bridge the gap between research and design. Design development is also examined through a series of structured stages. Finally, the book looks at a variety of approaches that can be used to successfully communicate and illustrate your design work.

Research and Design

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Allan M. Siegal

William G. Connolly

The Official Style Guide Used by the Writers and Editors of the World's Most Authoritative Newspaper

Offers more than six hundred alphabetically-arranged entries that provide guidelines on questions of spelling, punctuation, English usage, grammar, syntax, and style.

The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage, Revised and Expanded Edition

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L. L. Jackson

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Being a Complete Manual of Instruction in the Art of Designing, Drafting and Cutting Ladies's Children's Wearing Apparel, an Entirely New and Original Method of Teaching (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Science and Geometry of Dress: Being a Complete Manual of Instruction in the Art of Designing, Drafting and Cutting Ladies's Children's Wearing Apparel, an Entirely New and Original Method of Teaching This work, in its general design, is intended by the author as a complete Guide, Instructor and d104-Book on measuring, designing, drafting and cutting ladies' and children's clothing - suited not only to the studies of the school-room and the requirements of the professional Artist in Dress, but also to that large class of ladies outside the profession whose industry is chiefly confined to the home-circle. In the plan herein adopted will be found all the essential rules and directions contained in our former instruction book, first published in 1867, entitled the "Family Dress Guide," besides many important additions suited to the advanced stage of the Art, and specially applicable to garments of modern style and construction. The chief object of the "miniature method" of drafting, designed to be used and applied in connection with the elementary rules of this work, is to facilitate the teaching of this science in schools and classes, as also to reduce the labor and time required in imparting instructions. The diagram illustrations herein given are intended to impress the mind of the pupil in advance with the general plan and outline of the garment to be drafted, this rendering subsequent labor easy and intelligible. In conclusion, as a matter of special importance to the rapid advancement of the pupil, the author would urge a strict adherence, while under instructions, to the use of the Miniature Dress Guide and the average measures as printed on the diagrams. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Science and Geometry of Dress

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Vincent Ralph

Ten years ago, Jess's mother was murdered by suspected serial killer, the Magpie Man. She was the first of his victims but not the last.Jess is the star of a YouTube reality series and she's using her platform to catch the killer once and for all. She knows that thirteen people have been killed at the hand of the Magpie Man, and it's only a matter of time before he claims his next victim. Jess is convinced that someone, somewhere knows something. And she's going to leverage her show to shine a fresh light on a cold case.The whole world is watching her every move. And so is the Magpie Man.

Are You Watching?

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Veronique Henderson

Pat Henshaw

Change Your Look - Change Your Life!

The first book from the Color Me Beautiful team-created more than 25 years ago-still continues to sell well, and the world's leading image consultancy is back with an updated look at fashion and cosmetics. Millions of people have used this internationally recognized system to look and feel better. Think of it as feng shui for the body, a way of using color to make yourself sparkle from head to toe and glow from within. And now the Color Me Beautiful organization presents brand-new, totally contemporary strategies in an easy-to-follow and lushly illustrated volume. Guided by questionnaires, photos and palettes, and boxed pointers, anyone can do a color analysis and figure out what shades work best with her skin, hair, and eye tones. Confidence-building plans feature ideal outfits for any shape; tricks for adapting your wardrobe to different lifestyles; and ideas for developing a stylish, original approach to dress. Plus, there's makeup and accessory advice for that perfect finishing touch.

Color Me Confident

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Elaine Stone

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Fun! Fame! Fortune!

In Fashion: Fun! Fame! Fortune! prepares students to meet the challenges of a career in today's fashion business. This new text covers a basic understanding of fashion history; design and product development; textile, leathers and furs; apparel and accessories, as well as the retail businesses that sell fashion merchandise. Stone draws on her extensive background to capture the intensity, vigour, energy and motion of the fashion business.

In Fashion

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Charlotte Mankey Calasibetta

Phyllis G. Tortora

Bina Abling

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Finding definitions for fashion is easier than ever. The Fairchild Dictionary of Fashion, 3rd Edition, defines more than 15,000 fashion terms, including apparel, accessories, and their components; historical and textile terms that relate to contemporary fashion; and the language of the fashion business. Its organization of 51 broad categories, such as activewear, blouses and tops, clothing, construction details, footwear, headwear, jewelry, laces, necklines, shirts, skirts, and waistlines, promotes comprehension of related terms. Categories are fully cross-referenced to the alphabetical listing. Includes terms not readily found in ordinary dictionaries and pronunciation guides for foreign words. An appendix of designers includes emerging leaders. Lavish illustrations by Bina Abling enhance definitions, capturing both the details and style of fashion. Labeled "anatomical" drawings show how the parts of fashion items fit together. Alphabetical page tabs add to the ease of use. This dictionary is the ideal reference for designers, fashion media, instructors, students, historians, and fashion enthusiasts.

The Fairchild Dictionary of Fashion 3rd Edition

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Sue Jenkyn Jones

Sue Jones

A guide to twenty-first century fashion covers career opportunities while gauging the industry today, offering advice on clothing, patterns, fabrics, portfolios, and building a collection.

Fashion Design

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Gerry Cooklin

This introductory textbook provides a panoramic view of the clothing industry to students starting clothing and fashion courses at colleges and polytechnics. The text is accompanied by many practical examples and more than 100 clear illustrations.

Introduction to Clothing Manufacture

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Jacob Solinger

From product design to computerization processing methods, this book explains all the phases of garment manufacturing.

The Apparel Manufacturing Handbook

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Judith Bell

Kate Ternus

Captures retail industry visual merchandise innovations

Social Studies

Best Practices and Effective Strategies in Visual Merchandising

This new edition of the best-selling textbook, which captures the direction in which today's retail industry is moving, will lead students beyond the basics of visual merchandising. Experts' recent discoveries and valuable new techniques provide essential tools to create and deliver professional-quality presentations that will facilitate their move from the classroom to the workplace. Readers are encouraged to think out of the box while using Bell's Look-Compare-Innovate model, which is at the core of reinventions taking place in retail organisations worldwide.

Silent Selling

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Anna L. Langford

Sara J. Kadolph

Textile, fibers, yarn, fabrication, finishing 

This book will equip students with a basic knowledge of textiles so that they understand how textiles are produced and how appropriate performance characteristics are incorporated into materials and products. This knowledge is the foundation they need to make informed decisions about textile materials and products and to communicate effectively with team members in the workplace, suppliers, contractors and buyers. Sustainability and environmental issues are included in almost every chapter.

Textiles

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George E. Belch

Michael A. Belch

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

An Integrated Marketing Communications Perspective

Belch/Belch 8th edition continues its Advertising focus with an emphasis on IMC. It includes very comprehensive coverage of Agency issues and creative work and how it is related to the IMC mix. The authors understand that marketers must look beyond traditional media in order to achieve success. In order to best communicate with consumers, advertisers must utilize a myriad of tools (advertising, public relations, direct marketing, interactive/Internet marketing, sales promotion, and personal selling); Belch/Belch is the first book to reflect the shift from the conventional methods of advertising to the more widely recognized approach of implementing an integrated marketing communications strategy. The text underscores the importance of recognizing that a firm must use all promotional tools available to convey a unified message to the consumer. The integrated marketing communications perspective (the theme of the text) catapults the reader into the business practices of the 21st century.

Advertising and Promotion

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Wynn Armstrong

Jemi Armstrong

Lorrie Ivas

Understanding and creating the Digital Fashion Image Adobe and Illustrator CS techniques 

Computer Science

Understanding and Creating the Digital Fashion Image

In today's fashion industry, the traditional skills of forecasting, cutting, sewing and drafting are no longer enough. Students must be able to transform their two-dimensional plans into computer-generated images. From Pencil to Pen Tool: Understanding Creating the Digital Fashion Image teaches Adobe PhotoShop CS and Illustrator CS techniques applicable to both fashion students entering the field and established fashion-industry professionals seeking to stay current with technology. This book includes technical instruction about sketching and image production, as well as practical advice about creating a computer-generated portfolio and entering the fashion marketplace. Instructor's Guide available on request

From Pencil to Pen Tool

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Linda Tain

Comprehensive guide to creating a fashion portfolio. With more than 300 Illustrations 
Learn to:
-choose the right layout, design, shape and size.
-make the computer work for you.
-draw precise flats and write accurate specs.

This useful text helps fashion designers prepare a portfolio as they begin their design careers. Drawing on over 25 years as a professor, Linda Tain -- illustrator, designer, and former owner of a sportswear company -- shows how to avoid the common pitfalls of inexperience. Over 300 illustrations, archival photos, and sketches by newcomers and top designers, including examples from recent award-winning portfolios, demonstrate diverse approaches to creating a stunning professional portfolio.

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