£10.20 ISBN: 9780486460406 USA

£16.99 ISBN: 9780713490541 UK

£17.99 ISBN: 9780486998589 USA

365 DAYS OF HANDBAGS - 2009 CALENDAR
Published:2008
With its innovative design, the calendar features a full colour photo on every page

£10.99 ISBN: 9780761150022 USA

60 CIVIL WAR ERA FASHION PATTERNS Kristina Seleshanko
Published:2007
Assembled from vintage issues of "Peterson's Magazine," a popular 19th-century "ladies" periodical , these patterns include dresses , pants, jackets, and other apparel for women and children

£13.99 ISBN: 9780486461762 USA

£25.00 ISBN: 9780955076701 UK

A BATHING APE Nigo / Ian Luna / Akio Iida
Published:2008
Founded in the mid-1990s and now a leading force in global fashion, *A Bathing Ape®—or simply Bape—redefined the height of urban cool for a new generation of Tokyo hipsters. The creation of a young, enigmatic designer simply known as Nigo, Bape has rapidly become one of the most exclusive and sought-after youth brands in Europe and America. With a core product line of limited-edition hip-hop apparel distinguished from its mass-produced competitors by superior manufacture and detailing.

£30.00 ISBN: 9780847830510 USA

£24.99 ISBN: 9783791339467 GERMANY

£25.00 ISBN: 9780131192744 USA

£35.00 ISBN: 9781580931939 USA

AFRICAN COSTUMES AND TEXTILES - FROM THE BERBERS TO THE ZULUS
Published: 2008
This book is a tribute to the creativity of the peoples of Africa, in particular to its weavers, and presents magnificent textiles and accessories in 300 full-color photographs.Celebrating African costumes and textiles, this volume draws on historical and modern pieces from the Zaira and Marcel Mis Collection,

£60.00 ISBN: 9788874394760 USA

AFRICAN DESIGN PICTURA INCL CD-ROM
Published:2008
Capture the spirit of African design with this stunning resource of 287 color and black-and-white designs featuring the familiar — birds, animals, and faces — along with the abstract: vigorous lines, bold geometrics, colorful patterns. Selected from a vast archive of rare artwork, these images are reproduced according to the highest standards.

£24.99 ISBN: 9780486998466 USA

ALBERT WATSON James Crump
Published:2008
Albert Watson (b. 1942) is one of the world's most successful and sought-after fashion and commercial photographers working today. His striking images have appeared on more than 250 covers of Vogue and in many publications including "Rolling Stone", "Face" , "Time" and "Arena". He has also been responsible for many major advertising campaigns and over 600 television commercials for clients that range from Levi's and the Gap, to Revlon and Chanel . He has photographed many of the iconic figures and celebrities of our time including world-renowned models such as Kate Moss and Helena Christiansen, and stars from the world of film and music such as Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Nicholson and Mick Jagger.

£19.95 ISBN: 9780714847559 UK

£14.99 ISBN: 9780896896000 USA

£34.95 ISBN: 9782759402861 USA

ANIMAL PATTERNS INCL CD-ROM
Published:2008
Eternal patterns created by nature that always attract a great deal of attention from the fashion world. Not only the beauty of fur patterns, such as leopard, tiger and zebra, but also lizard, snake and seal skin patterns are featured. In addition to real photographs, illustration materials are included for easy use in a variety of ways. Stunning colours and textures,

£28.50 ISBN: 9784568503296 JAPAN

ARCHIVE - A BOOK ABOUT HAIR Wendy Iles
Published: 2008
Tells of one women's passion, her extraordinary career and outstanding hairdressing skills, Wendy Iles' archive gives us a selection of exquisite photographs from her European works of fashion images with its famous couturiers, photographers and models

£40.00 ISBN: 9783000236310 GERMANY

£35.00 ISBN: 9783897902909 GERMANY

ART DECO JEWELRY - JAKOB BENGEL, IDAR-OBERSTEIN/GERMANY C Weber-Stober
Published:2008
The jewellery produced by Bengel between 1931 and 1938 is distinguished by that of other makers by extraordinarily powerful innovation and a high degree of individuality. A mix of materials consisting of the coloured plastic Galalith and chromium-plated metal is handled with a playfully light touch. Bengel jewellery was exported world-wide. More than two hundred and fifty pieces of Bengel jewellery are superbly reproduced and described in this monograph on the firm. In addition, the book surveys over one hundred and thirty years of Bengel history and gives insights into sample books that have survived from the years 1924 to 1939. Over ten thousand drawings in colour furnish conclusive source material on designers and design practice during those years.

£25.00 ISBN: 9783897902473 GERMANY

ART ON SILK Cornelia Hesse-Honegger
Published: 2008
The first book of its kind, "Art on Silk" presents examples of this aspect of her work in a resplendent panorama. Inspired by her fascination with and respect for the world of insects, Hesse-Honegger began to recreate, with the passion of an artist and precision of a scientific illustrator, the countless shapes and colors of beetles and other bugs. The results, lavishly reproduced here, are naturalistic drawings and watercolors characterized by a minute attention to detail and a captivating aura.

£35.00 ISBN: 9783858812032 GERMANY

ASIAN DESIGN PICTURA INCL CD-ROM
Published:2008
Incredibly rich, beautifully designed compendium of design spanning the entire range of Asian art and culture. Included are 256 designs, patterns, and decorative motifs from China, Japan, Korea, India, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Tibet, and other Asian countries. Perfect for direct application to arts and crafts projects, design inspiration, or study of Asian art culture.

£24.99 ISBN: 9780486997506 USA

ATLAS OF FASHION DESIGNERS - MORE THAN 150 FASHION DESIGNERS ARE FEATURED FROM AROUND THE WORLD Laura Eceiza
Published: 2009
Atlas of Fashion Designers is born out of this proposition, and features a compilation of the most important fashion designers and their work in the past five years, selected from a multi-disciplinary perspective that display the heterogeneous mix of today's fashion world.Featured designers all have one trait in common: they were singled out, not only for the quality of their work, but also because they illustrate different perspectives in their approach to fashion.

£29.99 ISBN: 9781592534296 USA

BABETH Babeth Djian
Published:2008
The French fashion editor Elisabeth Djian, who goes by the more wholesome-sounding Babeth, can often be found sitting, arms crossed, in the front row. She has the intimidating look of a French madam, heightened by stiletto booties, a wink of a black bra and a laugh as free as salt. There’s a knowing quality about her without an eagerness to reveal herself

£45.00 ISBN: 9783865214829 GERMANY

£12.95 Not Yet Published ISBN: 9781856694094 UK

BARCELONA BRAND NEW FASHION DESIGNERS ModaFad
Published: 2009
The book records the 25 editions of "Modafad", with the inclusion of the most prominent designers which have emerged from each bi-annual event. Jordi Labanda, Spastor, Josep Abril, Celia Vela, Isaac Reina are some of the big names that started their careers in ModaFAD, and contribute to this book with short interviews and insights into their most current collections. Other contributors to the book include Chicks on Speed, with the tale of a work in progress workshop they organised at the 2005 ModaFAD event, or Diane Pernet's interview.


£29.95 ISBN: 9788496954656 SPAIN

BASIC FASHION DESIGN - CONSTRUCTION Annette Fischer
Published: 2008
Construction is the foundation of fashion design. It takes great skill to take a two-dimensional drawing and turn it into a successful garment--and now fashion designers can learn those essential skills, from Basics Fashion Design: Construction. With no-nonsense text and more than 200 color images, this book leads readers through the essential stages of creating a garment, from pattern cutting to construction and draping a mannequin, to finishes and haberdashery. Interviews with designers and other fashion-industry creatives from around the globe offer exciting insights into garment construction, from concept to execution.

£17.95 ISBN: 9782940373758 UK

£13.95 ISBN: 9782912345103 FRANCE

£15.99 ISBN: 9781906510091 UK

BEING TRULY YOU FOR WOMEN - DISCOVERING YOUR OWN UNIQUE WARDROBE PERSONALITY Angela Marshall
Published:2008
This book explains in detail the 10 core 'Wardrobe Personalities' and through a questionnaire enables the reader to identify which they are and understand why they prefer to dress in a certain manner. Tips are provided to help adapt an individual style to different circumstances, so that you own a wardrobe of clothes that you will feel, as well as look, great in.

£15.99 ISBN: 9781906510602 UK

BEYOND GREEN - PROGRESS IN FASHION AND SUSTAINABILITY
Published: 2008
Beyond Green creates order in the chaos and ignorance around this topic, which is more relevant than ever. Social responsibility will dominate the agenda in many branches, the creative one as well. The composers invited an elite group of international specialists to contribute to this book. It makes Beyond Green indispensable not only for professionals and students, but also for everyone who is interested in the social discussion about this topic

£26.75 ISBN: 9789089100405 NETHERLANDS

BRANDS A - Z - MUJI
Published:2008
Looks at their definitive advertising campaigns and charts the creative thinking processes that produced Muji's no-frills brand artwork over the years. Besides showcasing the creative artwork the book also features interviews with designers and the history of a company that has established a world-wide following. This visually stunning book is a must-have for advertisers and designers and Muji fans all over the world.

£22.00 ISBN: 9781904915201 UK

BREAKING THE MODE Kaye Durland Spilker/Sharon Sadako Takeda
Published:2008
Presented here alphabetically are forty of the most innovative of these designers in a combination of visual material with concise, descriptive texts by the book’s curators. Photographs, sketches, drawings, and computer renderings explore their design processes and showcase their most exquisite womenswear, shoes, hats, and accessories.

£30.00 ISBN: 9788861303010 ITALY

BRIGHTON GRAFFITI Stuart Bagshaw/David Oates
Published:2008
This book documents the history of Brighton graffiti, from the first crude tags that were meant to defile to the dazzling murals painted on the seawalls which extend along the coast, drawing graffiti crews from all over the world. These photographs are interspersed with quotes from the most important graffiti artists who have worked in Brighton. What emerges is an inspiring example of graffiti as a valid, respected and treasured art form within the town.

£14.99 ISBN: 9783791339658 GERMANY

£17.99 ISBN: 9781845206604 UK

£8.99 Order Only ISBN: 9783791339634 GERMANY

£16.50 ISBN: 9780816068425 USA

CARNIVAL MASKS OF VENICE J C Brown
Published: 2008
This elegantly designed book the reader is offered a concise introduction to the history of carnival and mask-wearing and the book is then devoted to J C Brown's moody and evocative photographs of Venetians in masks in the worlds's most phtogenic city

£16.99 ISBN: 9781904332831 UK

CATALOG - THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF MAIL ORDER SHOPPING Robin Cherry
Published:2008
In Catalog: The History of Mail Order Shopping, Robin Cherry traces the timeline of these snapshots from American history and discovers along the way how we dressed, decorated our houses, worked, played, and got around. From corsets to bell-bottoms, from baby-doll dresses and Doc Martens all the way to iPods, the history of these catalogs is the history of our lives and our culture

£22.00 ISBN: 9781568987392 USA

COCO CHANEL - THREE WEEKS 1962 Douglas Kirkland
Published:2008
In 1962, world class photographer Douglas Kirkland dpent three weeks with the most important fashion icon of all time, Coco Chanel, over the course of his stay, he photographed Coco with her friends, on the runway, and in the privacy of her home, this book reveals these never before seen photographs in all their vibrancy, shedding new light and life on one of the world's most enduring and multi-faceted legends

£27.00 ISBN: 9780980155716 USA

CATHERINE MALANDRINO Nicholas Foulkes
Published: 2008
Catherine Malandrino's designs make the most of creative opposites: the utmost feminine lines temper an aggressive urban style, French chic combines with New York energy, a vibrant palette contrasts with the black…Born in Grenoble, she launched her career only ten years ago and quickly established her reputation in the United States.
Catherine Malandrino represents the spirit and creative energy of women, and has become a cult favorite among young cosmopolitans.

£12.50 ISBN: 9782759401680 USA

CELTIC VECTOR DESIGNS INCL CD-ROM Dover Publications
Published: 2008
A celebration of the ever-popular Celtic visual arts, this design anthology offers over 260 Vector-based interpretations of all the traditional motifs — interlacing patterns, intricate knot work, and imaginative animal forms. Graphics can be increased to very large sizes without the loss of any image quality.

£29.35 ISBN: 9780486990224 USA

CHANGING CLOTHES IN CHINA Antonia Finnane
Published:2008
This is the long-awaited, authoritative and definitive study of fashion in modern China, a topic if not a nascent field that has attracted recent scholarly and media attention. The author, a pioneer in this area, has accomplished an incredible feat-producing a vigorously-argued book that would advance intellectual debates while remaining accessible to the general reader.This book has a great many strengths. Previous Anglophone monographs on Chinese dress--by Vollmer, Garrett and Wilson for example--were works of collectors and museum curators. They focus on the material construction of dress and their regional or social variations at the expense of systemic cultural and economic analyses.

£25.00 ISBN: 9781850658603 UK

£99.95 ISBN: 9780978607654 USA

£13.99 ISBN: 9780486998633 USA

£30.00 ISBN: 9781851775323 UK

CHRISTIAN DIOR - THE BIOGRAPHY Marie-France Pochna
Published:2008
Christian Dior caused a worldwide sensation in 1947, in a Paris still groping to recover from the devastation of wartime occupation. Reintroducing the flowing, ankle-length skirt, Dior gave women back their long-lost sense of freedom, femininity, and 'joie de vivre'. Dior's collection with its pinched waist and generous folds of fabric, was dubbed the 'New Look' by the press, and he was crowned 'The King of Fashion'. He immediately re-established Paris as the centre of the fashion world and for the next thirty years the House of Dior played host to aristocracy, stars of stage and film, and glitterati from around the world.

£25.00 ISBN: 9780715637463 UK

CLOTHES John Harvey
Published: 2008
When we choose our own clothes, we know the choice is a sensitive matter and far from being merely superficial. "Clothes" considers the overlapping values that clothes have for us. Clothes both cover and advertise the bodies within them. They help make us the men and women we are, and help us to attract each other. They enroll us in groups, from our own circle to our generation worldwide; and they show just how, as individuals, we want to be noticed

£12.00 ISBN: 9781844651504 UK

COMMUNICATING WITH PATTERN - SQUARES, CHECKS, AND GRIDS
Keith Stephenson/Mark Hampshire
Published:2008
Squares and checks represent order, mathematics, technical precision, minimalism and modernism. They are also embedded in the very weave of our history, from Wicca and Christian iconography to traditional checked and tartan cloths. This book presents a graphic collection of different occurrence of squares and checks from all environments.

£15.00 ISBN: 9782940361823 SWITZERLAND

£48.00 ISBN: 9781563674327 USA

£40.00 ISBN: 9780955076732 UK

£36.00 French Language ISBN: 9782907970761 FRANCE

£29.50 ISBN: 9789889918736 HONG KONG

£12.99 ISBN: 9781856695428 UK

£19.99 ISBN: 9781592534289 USA

£19.95 ISBN: 9781851495733 UK

£19.95 ISBN: 9781851495740 UK

£690.00

DESIGN & DESIGNER - C100 STUDIO C100, aka Christian Hundertmark, joined the graffiti scene in the late 1990s and then later extended his interests to graphic design in 2000. Instead of sticking to one specific style, C100 cleverly fuses different worlds and techniques into a catalogue that is constantly evolving. His current client portfolio includes Amnesty International, Prada, Levi’s and Carhartt.

£14.95 ISBN: 9782350171067 FRANCE

£40.00 ISBN: 9781563674921 USA

£24.99 ISBN: 9780486998862 USA

DRAPING - ART AND CRAFTSMANSHIP IN FASHION DESIGN
Published: 2008
This book is for everyone who is interested in fashion: for students who want to learn the basics and master the techniques needed to produce their own designs, and certainly for those who are already working in fashion and want to expand their knowledge through means of moulage. This book consists partly of the history of the development of this technique, and includes many practical applications. Then a number of renowned designers tell about their association with moulage. A third part details the materials and tools needed to begin. A large section follows on the patterns of all clothing components in the most common variations, illustrated with extremely detailed photos. The last part shows how designs have been created in moulage from 1890 to the present.

£43.00 ISBN: NETHERLANDS

£50.00 ISBN: 9780977787548 USA

DRAWING FOR FASHION DESIGNERS Angel Fernandez/Gabriel Martin Roig
Published:2007
This is a complete guide to all aspects of drawing for fashion designers, from simple line drawing, though crayons, painting to collage and computers. It gives the technical information on mastering the human figure in clothed form while encouraging readers to find their own creative style. It offers drawing and illustration techniques galore - most with step-by-step demonstrations.

£15.99 ISBN: 9780713490756 UK

DRESS SHIRT DESIGN Malie Raef
Published:2008
Every element of the mans dress shirt is explored here, including collars, plackets, pockets, shoulder seams, armholes, short sleeves, long sleeves, cuffs, cuff plackets, back yokes, garment shaping, bottom hems, and vents. this book features over 840 computer flat sketches of many shirts components, as well as fashion illustrations from guest artists . The flat sketches demonstrate how pieces are sewn, details of stitching, and fabric layers. The artists sketches indicate how design elements are incorporated into garments aimed at specific customer bases, from high-end luxury to urban department store. This is a valuable resource for fashion design students and tailoring professionals alike, as well as anyone with a passion for clothing design.

£59.95 ISBN: 9780764327230 USA

£30.00 ISBN: 9780060191443 USA

£25.00 Order Only ISBN: 9781741960792 UK

£24.95 ISBN: 9781906155094 UK

ESSENTIAL FASHION ILLUSTRATION - COLOR + MEDIUM Estel Vilaseca

£19.99 ISBN: 9781592534302 USA

ESSENTIAL FASHION ILLUSTRATION - MEN Chidy Wayne
Published: 2009
The first half of the book focuses on technical drawings of the human body, the second half then branches out to fashion illustration using media, such as watercolour, pastels, acrylics, and pencils. "Essential Fashion Illustration: Men" is both a didactic tool and a base from which fashion illustrators can build their own unique styles.

£19.99 ISBN: 9781592535057 USA

£19.99 ISBN: 9789057681127 NETHERLANDS

FASHION 101 - A CRASH COURSE IN CLOTHING
Published: 2009
In an accessible A to Z format, this reference for the style-conscious young woman provides quick and easy access to everything a fashionist needs to know about clothes. With over 200 entries, it is a veritable encyclopaedia of fashion with information on the proper name of each item, its designer, the name of the celebrities who made it famous, and advice on what to wear with it. The book covers a wide array of wardrobe items - including tops, skirts, dresses, pants, shorts, undergarments, shoes, and accessories - making this the first source to check for answers to all fashion questions.

£17.00 ISBN: 9780979017346 USA

£12.95 ISBN: 9781861892911 UK

£40.00 ISBN: 9781563675805 USA

£14.99 Not Yet Published ISBN: 9781845204525 UK

FASHION BRAND GRAPHICS
Published: 2008
The men's, women's, unisex and children's fashion brands that appear in this collection are among the most highly regarded in Japan and herein we introduce some of their commonly used marketing tools including catalogues, shopping cards and shopping bags, together with their seasonal promotional tools and novelties

£40.00 ISBN: 9784894446120 JAPAN

£27.50 ISBN: 9780500513965 UK

£24.99 ISBN: 9781405140041 UK

FASHION IDENTITY Mito Design
Published:2008
a collection of the creative ways that more than 80 fashion companies from some of the world's most relevent cities showcase their unique identity and style

£30.00 ISBN: 9788496309579 SPAIN

FASHION ILLUSTRATION BY FASHION DESIGNERS Laird Borrelli
Published:2008
This book showcases the fashion sketches of sixty contemporary fashion designers, selected for their extraordinary talent in the art of illustration. The drawings of world-famous designers such as Christian Lacroix, Sonia Rykiel and Yves Saint Laurent appear, as well as the work of up-and-coming visionaries including Roksanda Ilincic, Jens Laugesen and Tuleh . Their fashion drawings display a wide range of creative techniques and approaches: from refined and elegant sketchwork, through colourful and cartoon-like imagery, to amazingly accomplished draftsmanship. All the artworks featured are guaranteed to amaze , enlighten and inspire anyone interested in fashion or illustration.

£24.95 Reprinting ISBN: 9780500513972 UK

FASHION ILLUSTRATION TECHNIQUES
Maite Lafuente
With more than 200 illustrations and brief explanations, this book offers a step-by-step introduction to the six most important methods of fashion illustration, watercolours, wax crayons, pastels, felt tip pens, graphite and coloured pencils and collage, Readers will not only become familiar with these individual fashion illustration techniques, but will also learn how to combine and experiment with them

£11.99 ISBN: 9783836504072 GERMANY

FASHION ILLUSTRATION WITH PHOTOSHOP
Kevin Tallon
The book shows you how to create the stunning images that grace the fashion magazines, department stores and newspaper supplements. Master the techniques provided here to unleash true creativity, and has created a step-by-step technique book specifically for those interested in creating fashion illustrations: including mood boards, placement and repeat prints, fashion illustrations, garment sketches, logos and graphics, visualisation, presentation board and collection ranges.

£18.99 ISBN: 9780713490589 UK

£7.99 Not Yet Published ISBN: 9783836503365 GERMANY

FASHION SPEAK - INTERVIEWS WITH THE WORLD'S LEADING DESIGNERS
Published:2008
In FASHION SPEAK, David Meagher talks to top Australian and international designers - the people whose vision shapes the way we dress today and what we'll be wearing next season. The designers talk about where they've come from, where they're headed, and their philosophy of design.

£9.99 ISBN: 9781741664997 AUSTRALIA

FASHION UNFOLDING - UNCOVER THE POWER OF GRAPHICS IN FASHION
Published:2008
At a time when exclusivity id the holy grail in fashion, graphic design provides the means to pin-point, differentiate and communicate an unique identity, this titlr demonstrates graphics that live and shine on the stage of fashion

£25.00 ISBN: 9789889822880 HONG KONG

FASHION V SPORT Ligaya Salazar
Published:2008
Stunning images from sport, advertising, street fashion and the catwalk illustrate the take of prominent sportsmen and women, designers, creative directors, anthropologists and journalist on this popular subject. The book explores how the influence of fashion and sport extends from high performance textiles developed for competition, to high-end fashion and finally, through the filter of adapted advertising and magazine imagery, to the consumer, who adopts and adapts the styles to make their own unique fashion statements.


£19.99 ISBN: 9781851775330 UK

FASHION WONDERLAND
Published:2008
Dominating in the fashion world, illustration helps to define and distinguish identity, the skillful hands of talents fuel the wonderland with spirit and limitless vitality, this title demonstrates the hottest work from around the globe, and reveals how illustration hitches with fashion

£25.00 ISBN: 9789889822965 GERMANY

FASHIONABLE CLOTHING FROM THE `SEARS' CATALOGS - MID 1930s
Tammy Ward
Published:2007
Mid-1930s clothing for men, women, and children are presented in 300 color photographs from the Sears catalogs. See the popular styles of dresses, suits, coats, and sleepwear; as well as hats, shoes, and undergarments. Printed and solid fabrics are shown with customary accessories and in the latest styles .

£24.95 ISBN: 9780764327346 USA

FASHIONABLE CLOTHING FROM THE SEARS CATALOGS - MID 1980s Tammy Ward
Published:2008
The ongoing Sears catalog series continues with a look at the mid-1980s. Nearly 400 color images portray the fashions and distinctive styles worn during this time. Shoulder pads, mannish-looking suits, and big hair were popular, influenced by stars Don Johnson, Madonna, the cast of Dynasty, and Princess Diana. See how many of these clothes you remember wearing; some styles from this time have come back to life now. It's a wonderful nostalgic walk down memory lane that inspires clothing designers today.

£24.95 ISBN: 9780764329609 USA

FASHIONIZE 2 - ILLUSTRATION WILL RULE THE WORLD
Published:2007
40 new and established illustrators working in fashion design

£32.00 ISBN: 9788886416696 ITALY

FEAR AND FASHION IN THE COLD WAR Jane Pavitt
Published: 2008
This book explores Cold War fashion in all its aspects, ranging from innovations in materials to the cybernetic visions of the 1960s, from the bikini to the spacesuit, vinyl radiation suits to high-tech jewellery, Paco Rabanne to Barbarella. Set in the context of art, film, science and design, Pavitt explores how the image of the body was shaped by Cold War concerns - atomic anxieties, the space race, technological developments and the first forays into 'hyper-reality.' With a stunning selection of images alongside military, political and scientific research, the book shows how counter-cultural theories and experiences in the later 1960s shaped an alternative view of the 'Cold War Body'.

£19.99 ISBN: 9781851775446 UK

£13.99 ISBN: 9780486998664 USA

FORGOTTON FASHION - AN ILLUSTRATED FAUX HISTORY OF OUTRAGEOUS TRENDS AND THEIR UNTIMELY DEMISE Katie Hahn
Published:2008
Forgotten Fashion is a fake history book of clothing trends that never really happened. Each 600-word entry focuses on a single ersatz garment from an actual historical era, such as the Swinging Sixties, accompanied by an illustration.The text mixes fictional designers, made-up muses, and totally imaginary trendsetters with real people and places. Each bite-sized section reads somewhat like a humorous short-story, tracing the birth, life and death of a trend - and always reflecting something about the mood of the times in which the style was popular &

£9.99 ISBN: 9781582975399 UK

FORTIES FASHION - FROM SIREN SUITS TO THE NEW LOOK Jonathan Walford
Published:2008
The definitive book on 1940s fashion in America, Europe, Australasia, and Japan. From French style under the Occupation and the "make do and mend" approach to wartime clothing shortages through issues of dress , patriotism, and propaganda to the rise of American fashion houses in the postwar period: here is a comprehensive look at the fashions and styles that emerged around the world during the 1940s. During the Second World War, between air raids and ration lines, fashion managed to express ideals of beauty, femininity, and luxury even though patriotic and practical considerations came first. glorious celebration of everything from practical and smart-looking attire for air raids (hooded capes with large pockets and zippered jumpsuits) to street fashion and the creation of Christian Dior's "New Look" collection in 1947 &

£24.95 ISBN: 9780500514290 UK

FREE STYLE SCRAPS 06 - HANDWRITING
Published:2008
Containing more than 1200 handwriting illustrations! This Free Style Scraps is useful not only for design works, but also for creating various items, web designs, and preparations for business presentations. The sixth collection presents more than 1200 impressive handwriting illustrations by professional illustrators, and all data is on attached CD-ROM with ESP and JPEG format.

£22.95 ISBN: 9784861006050 JAPAN

FROM FIORUCCI TO THE GUERILLA STORES - SHOP DISPLAYS IN ARCHITECTURE, MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Claudio Marenco
Published:2006
Mores Looks back at thirty years of competition and collaboration between these two giants of style and culture. It examines what each wants from the other - innovation, surprise, flexibility and prestige - and how long-lasting and effective relationships can be built in an ever-changing environment. This volume also features real examples, from the epicenters of world fashion to the guerilla stores of new designers.

£12.99 ISBN: 9788831789578 ITALY

GABELLINI - ARCHITECTURE OF THE INTERIOR Michael Gabellini
Published:2008
Gabellini’s luminous aesthetic will be the centerpiece of this monograph, his first ever, featuring the alluring retail interiors and provocative art installations together with his highly sought-after residences and large-scale, public spaces, such as the recently reopened and widely acclaimed Top of the Rock at Rockefeller Center. Revealing photography and insightful text contributions by Paola Antonelli and Hans-Ulrich Obrist, among others, will make this one of the most anticipated design monographs of the year.

£35.00 ISBN: 9780847830169 USA

GEISHA FAN BOOK Tina Skinner
Published:2008
This keepsake, fan-shaped book captures a moment now lost to history, when Japanese girls were indentured as young as 6. Dressed like dolls, they were paraded through parties and celebrated for their beauty, charm, and innocence, all the while learning the music, dance, conversational, and gaming skills expected in a master of their craft. Here is a wonderful opportunity to see these girls in the glory of their colourful regalia, posing before a newly introduced invention, the camera . This treasury of hand-tinted postcard and real-photo images is a unique book you will treasure forever

£19.95 ISBN: 9780764327469 USA

GEOFFREY BEENE - AN AMERICAN REBEL Kim Hastreiter
Published: 2008
From his infamous zipper dress to the jumpsuit and bolero to his witty design details, bold prints, and contrasts, Mr. Beene’s influence rocked a new generation of designers and the closets of women across the world. Close friend and cultural maverick Kim Hastreiter recounts the life and work of a passionate artist who was as freethinking, original, and antiestablishment as they come.

£27.50 ISBN: 9782759402663 USA

GETTY IMAGES - DECADES 1900s - 1990s Nick Yapp
Published: 2008
A collection of photographs drawn from the Getty Images collection presented in ten volumes covering the 20th century

£39.99 ISBN: 9783833133442 UK

£20.00 ISBN: 9780199210985 UK

GLAMOUR GIRLS Patrick McMullan
Published:2008
This stunning book, printed to the highest quality and bound in a puffy printed fabric, is the largest collection of images by McMullan ever published. Showcasing women from around the world in over 1,000 colour photographs spanning McMullan's entire career, it opens a window onto a world most of only see from afar

£39.95 ISBN: 9780977398515 USA

GOTH CULTURE - GENDER, SEXUALITY AND STYLE R Dunja Brill
Published: 2008
"Goth Culture" explores Goths' expressive practices of dress, fashion, style and the body, in relation to issues of identity and representation. The book shares vivid accounts of the author's experiences exploring gender and sexuality and doing fieldwork in the Gothic subculture. Through the voices of Goths from the UK, US and Germany, it draws the reader into the gender-bending and heavily gendered world of Goth

£16.99 ISBN: 9781845207687 UK

GOTHIC POP TEXTURES VOL 2 - INCL CD-ROM
Published:2008
Volume 2 contains further designs in neo-gothic style as well as patterns inspired by Gothic Punk fashion and Liberty florals, but with a clear Pop Art accent: less elegant, more fresh and younger, including free and new type combinations of various styles and colors

£90.00 ISBN: 9788888766089 ITALY

£9.99 ISBN: 9780810970892 USA

GRAPHIC PRINT SOURCE VOL 4 - BABY INSPIRATIONS INCL CD-ROM
Published:2008
This book is full of charming all over prints and cute characters designed with the baby and toddler in mind. The range of application of this adorable inspiration includes unique solutions for any printable surface including clothing, home textiles, accessories, furniture and gifts . It is aimed at both the baby girl and baby boy market in themes such as outer space, ocean friends, pretty ponies, trucks, trains & planes, fairytales, knights & dragons, dinosaurs, pirates and the circus

£125.00 ISBN: 9781427628176 GERMANY

GRAPHIC PRINT SOURCE VOL 5 - PRINT INSPIRATIONS INCL CD-ROM
Published:2008
The fifth volume from Graphic Print Source offers hundreds of all over print ideas for the universal market. Containing prints that range from bold colours and geometric shapes, to softer colour palettes, hand drawn designs and distressed looking prints, this book has a distinct feel of strength and dominance in its pages of inspirations.

£125.00 ISBN: 9781427628183 GERMANY

GRAPHIC PRINT SOURCE VOL 6 - VINTAGE PRINTS INCL CD-ROM
Published:2008
A collection of vintage, retro, art deco and antique style all over prints, the Vintage Prints book offers thousands of ideas, inspirations and design options. For a timeless look that won't go out of fashion, Vintage Prints can be used to inspire not only fashion fabric designs, but also areas like home and household textiles, upholstery fabrics, wallpaper, gift wrapping paper, accessories, jewellery and much more.

£125.00 ISBN: 9781427628190 GERMANY

£8.99 ISBN: 9780340954317 UK

HAIR WARS David Yellen/Johanna Lenander
Published:2008
After attending a first Hair Wars show at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem in 2004, photographer David Yellen and fashion writer Johanna Lenander decided to document, through portraits and interviews, the creative power of the most acclaimed Fantasy Hair stylists nationally. Hair Wars, the first photography book to document this phenomenal art form, presents a series of 74 four-color photographs that were taken in several Hair Wars shows around the country between 2004 and 2006.

£28.99 ISBN: 9781576873991 USA

HANDBAGS - GALLERY CALENDAR 2009
Published:2008
313 pages of glorious colour photographs, with Saturday and Sunday combined

£13.00 ISBN: 9780761149972 USA

£19.95 ISBN: 9781856693394 UK

HARLEY-DAVIDSON - BOOK OF FASHIONS 1910s - 1950s Rin Tanaka
Published:2008
History of the fashions worn by Harley Davidson riders in USA

£80.00

HAROLD CURWEN & OLIVER SIMON:CURWEN PRESS - DESIGN Brian Webb/Peyton Skipwith
Published: 2009


£12.50 ISBN: 9781851495719 UK

HARPERS BAZAAR GREAT STYLE - BEST WAYS TO UPDATE YOUR LOOK
Jenny Levin
Published:2007
this elegant and lively guide - filled with fabulous fashion and celebrity photography demonstrating the best looks - will quickly capture their attention and become the must-have accessory. it reveals the secrets of the world's most fashionable women, and how to identify the look that's just right for you. And this is not about here today, gone tomorrow fads, but practical know how about timeless style. From building a perfect wardrobe to the ten commandments of dressing , from flattering your figure to choosing sexy extras, "Great Style" covers it all, with advice on dressing for work, play and going glam.

£14.99 ISBN: 9781845133047 UK

HATS - A HISTORY OF FASHION IN HEADWEAR Hilda Amphlett
Published:2003
An illustrated view of 2,000 years of head coverings, this engaging and literate survey features over 800 drawings depicting the headgear of both genders, all classes, and many nationalities. Its interpretive text documents the development of styles, their changes with the passage of time, and the influences that created and altered them. 800 black-and-white illustrations.

£16.99 ISBN: 9780486427461 USA

HENRY MOORE TEXTILES Anita Feldman
Published:2008
Henry Moore Textiles is the first publication on this relatively unknown aspect of Moore's work. Much of the material, including many recently discovered textile designs, has never been published before. Generously illustrated, Henry Moore Textiles offers a new angle on a popular artist, and is published to coincide with the first exhibition devoted to this facet of Moore's work at the Henry Moore Foundation in Hertfordshire

£30.00 ISBN: 9780853319931 UK

HISTORIC TEXTILE DESIGNS INCL CD-ROM
Published:2008
Faithfully reproduced from a valuable 19th-century portfolio, this singular volume includes over 200 designs celebrating the rich textile traditions of many historic cultures. From ancient Egypt to 18th-century France, full-color motifs feature mythological figures, harvest scenes, elaborate florals, geometric elements, winding vines and leaves

£17.99 ISBN: 9780486998701 USA

£68.00 ISBN: 9780810854543 USA

HUMANOID - SPECIAL ISSUE 1981-2007
Giene Steenman
Published:2007
The story so far of Humanoid, Dutch designer label

£35.00 ISBN: 9789086901111 NETHERLANDS

INSIDE THE TATTOO CIRCUS - A JOURNEY THROUGH THE MODERN WORLD OF TATTOOS Kristan Misser
Published: 2008
This expansive book presents 97 international tattoo artists and their best work in words and images. Organized in 19 different "acts," it presents firsthand knowledge of today's tattoo world. Over 560 color images depict a wide range of tattoo motifs, including tribal themes, women, botanicals, animals, portraits, horror, organic, Japanese, religion and mythology, and futurism. In addition, current tattoo-related art, shops, conventions, magazines, and the internet are discussed.

£32.50 ISBN: 9780764331459 USA

INTRODUCTION TO ACCUMARK, PATTERN DESIGN & PRODUCT DATA MANAGEMENT Julia Ridgway Sharp/Virginia Hencken Elsasser
Published:2007
Provides step-by-step instructions to Gerber Technology's in-demand software programs. Accumark—used to copy patterns into the computer—is covered from the basics of data storage and retrieval to the complexities of digitization. The Pattern Design section details the sizing and measuring , point and notch, line, and piece functions necessary to translate creativity into pattern reality. Rounding out the book are instructions in Product Data Management (PDM), including design and cost specifications. Together, these three Computer-Aided Design (CAD) programs are the industry standard. This clear, user-friendly book is the companion tool students need to master them—and to maximize their technological savvy in today's dynamic fashion industry.

£37.00 ISBN: 9781563674372 USA

Limited edition of 1000, hand numbered.

£25.00

IN STEP WITH FASHION Norma Shephard
Published: 2008
This fresh new book offers an intimate look at shoe styles. More than 550 color photographs reveal foot fashion favorites and their correlation to ever-changing social factors. No other item of apparel is so closely related to the senses as shoes: the scent of leather, the click of a stiletto, the softness of a satin bedroom slipper. The glossary, index, and value guide assist archivists, researchers, clothing dealers, designers, and dedicated shoe hounds.

£24.95 ISBN: 9780764328176 USA

JAPANESE FASHION 1868-2007
Published:2008
Fashion is sensitive to the influence of factors such as culture, economy, and social conditions – in this sense it is a mirror reflecting specific historical times. Compiled by Kazuo Jo, a Japanese authority on chromatics and dressmaking, this book presents beautifully detailed illustrations that portray the transition in Japanese fashion from the onset of the Meiji period in 1868 to the present day.

£15.95 ISBN: 9784861521089 JAPAN

JAPANESE VECTOR DESIGNS INCL CD-ROM
Published: 2008
From fierce dragons and bold samurai to dainty flowers and doll-like geishas, this collection is a superb showcase of authentic Japanese art. Includes over 200 Vector-based graphics that will remain crisp and clear even if they are expanded to very large sizes. Also features an original design gallery and tutorial section.

£29.35 ISBN: 9780486990231 USA

£13.99 ISBN: 9780486998572 USA

£12.95 ISBN: 9782759401437 USA

JEWS AND SHOES Edna Nahshon
Published:2008
Shoes are an integral part of Jewish material culture. Although they appear in some of the most foundational biblical stories, they are generally regarded as no more than lowly, albeit essential , accessories. "Jews and Shoes" takes a fresh look at the makings and meanings of shoes, cobblers, and barefootedness in Jewish experience. This book shows how shoes convey theological, social, and economic concepts, and as such are intriguing subjects for inquiry within a wide range of cultural, artistic, and historic contexts.

£17.99 ISBN: 9781847880505 UK

JOHN BATES - FASHION DESIGNER Richard Lester
Published:2008
Richard Lester's text is based on detailed interviews with John Bates, covering his entire career in fashion. In addition the book features contributions from Felicity Green, Deidre McSharry, Brigid Keenan, Barbara Griggs, Sian Phillips and other key figures from the fashion industry , cultural scene and media of the time.

£25.00 ISBN: 9781851495702 UK

KATE MOSS STYLE Angela Buttolph
Published: 2009
"Kate Moss: Style" is a celebration of a unique life in fashion, exploring in-depth the evolution and impact of Kate's look. Taking us inside the most famous wardrobe in the world, Angela Buttolph unravels the secret of Kate Moss' fashion formula by uncovering the stories behind her most iconic outfits; from the infamous sheer silver slip dress, to the much-coveted lemon yellow prom dress, and the rock chick pvc leggings. With contributions from fashion designers, stylists, photographers, and vintage dealers, the biggest names in the fashion industry reveal how Kate chooses what she wears and why.

£29.95 ISBN: 9781846054297 UK

KATE MOSS - THE COMPLETE PICTURE (An Unauthorized Biography)
Laura Collins Published: 2008
The book examines Kate's ever-changing career against the backdrop of the fashion industry. It also uncovers her sometimes turbulent private life, from her relationships with Johnny Depp and Jefferson Hack to the media frenzy over her time with Pete Doherty. Based on in-depth research, Laura Collins has written the first definitive biography of one of the most glamorous women of our time.

£16.99 ISBN: 9780283070631 UK

KIDSTORE COLLECTION VOL 2 INCL CD-ROM
Published:2008
Future trends are divided into 3 main sections, Action - x-treme active wear, retro mood, city sport, and African prrints on fitness wear, Attitude - light graphic tours, urban scenes to save, unexpected inventions - navy hyperspace and surreal R to W hints, Adventure - a journey among different cultures, caravan vintage holidays, tropical folklore suggestions and colour

£150.00 ISBN: 9788895663067 ITALY

KIDSTORE PREVIEW SPRING/SUMMER 2009
Published:2008
PREVIEW Spring/Summer 2009 - Kidstore Preview has evolved into an effective work tool for professionals looking for inspiration, trends and colours for childrenswear collections for S/S 2009, The 12 themes of the collection develop in three spheres: Action, Attitude and Adventure with an instant interpretation of each theme: guiding inspiration, materials and technical details, style and graphic techniques, colours and their different combinations within the range.

£42.00 Out of Print ISBN: 9788895663074 ITALY

KIMONO AS ART - THE LANDSCAPES OF ITCHIKU KUBOTA Dale Gluckmann
Published:2008
The first major book on Japanese textile artist Itchiku Kubota, published to accompany a touring exhibition. This lavishly illustrated book showcases fifty-five masterworks by Japanese kimono artist Itchiku Kubota (1917-2003). Initially determined to unlock the secrets of dyed and painted Japanese textiles of the fourteenth to early seventeenth centuries, Kubota ultimately invented a unique method of decoration. His work combines stitch-resist and ink drawing with a complex layering of color to achieve hauntingly beautiful landscapes with richly textured surfaces and an impressionistic rendering of nature never before seen in the textile arts.

£29.95 ISBN: 9780500976852 UK

£31.00 ISBN: 9788493618230 SPAIN

KOOS COUTURE COLLAGE - INSPIRATION & TECHNIQUES Linda Chang Teufel
Published: 2002
This biography and illustrated guide highlights the work of master designer Koos van den Akker and provides inspiration for bold, unique sewing creations. Chronicling the designer's 30 years in haute couture, this book follows van den Akker from his start in the Paris workrooms of Christian Dior to his rise in the fashion world and the establishment of his own Madison Avenue boutique. Included are demonstrations for duplicating several of his construction and design techniques that offer illustrated sewing instructions and intricate details for home sewers to imitate. The designs, with their richness of texture, generosity of colour, and dynamic mix of fabrics, share the full scope of van den Akker's masterful creations.

£19.98 ISBN: 9780964120174 USA

£45.00 ISBN: 9780847829538 USA

LET ME IN Mario Testino
Published:2008
The result is a portrait not just of a generation of the most wanted and talked-about, but an invitation to be part of the backstage parties and unstaged moments of Testino`s life. Sometimes offbeat, but always on the pulse, Let me in!, with Testino`s eye for a modern kind of elegance liberated from conventional polish, is a new chapter from the photographer who has already made his mark with the books Any Objections, Front Row Backstage, Alive, Portraits, Kids, Diana Princess of Wales, and numerous exhibitions and publications worldwide.

£24.99 ISBN: 9783822844182 GERMANY

LINGERIE - TWO CENTURIES OF LUSCIOUS DESIGN Norma Shephard
Published:2008
Peek into the most personal clothing in a woman’s boudoir—the undergarments designed to shape, conceal, enhance, and reveal the body to create a silhouette for outerwear fashions from 1770 to 1970. From corsets to negligees to reverse thongs, hundreds of fascinating garments are shown in over 500 color photographs that reflect ever-changing social factors, which influenced day and nighttime occasions.

£24.95 ISBN: 9780764328183 USA

LONDON - AFTER A FASHION Alistair O'Neill
Published:2007
Maps fashion's progress in a variety of London locations, including Carnaby Street, the King's Road, Jermyn Sreet and Soho. The book is a consideration of fashions particular to the history of London. The author traces the history of fashion within modern London through a lively and unexpected reconsideration of cultural figures and forms. From examples as diverse as the design-conscious use of chintz in the 1980s, the use of the hat in British Surrealism, and the popularity of tattooing in the London society of the 1890s, the book charts a broad territory

£14.95 ISBN: 9781861893154 UK

LONDON STYLE Jane Edwards
London is the capital of cool, full of famous artists, photographers, musicians, writers, decorators, designers, architects, and film-makers - and here is a chance to sneak into their homes! Arranged progressively by color, the rich , detailed full-page photos featured here take the reader on a whirlwind tour of the town, exploring a wide range of architecture and interior design

£3.99 ISBN: 9783836507776 GERMANY

MADELEINE VIONNET
Published: 2008
"Madeleine Vionnet is the definitive study of this venerated artist. Illustrated with more than 400 photographs, line drawings, and watercolors, it also includes 38 original patterns for Vionnet dresses. As the Art Deco Society of L.A.'s newsletter has said, anyone "interested in Art Deco or fashion must have this book."

£65.00 ISBN: 9780811819978 USA

MAGAZINE DESIGN THAT WORKS - SECRETS FOR SUCCESSFUL MAGAZINE DESIGN Stacey King
Published:2001
Takes a close look at an exciting group of very different magazines, exploring what makes them work graphically and how their look was conceived, designed and excuted

£16.99 Out of Print ISBN: 9781564967589 USA

MAKE YOUR OWN CLOTHES INCL CD-ROM - 20 CUSTOM-FIT PATTERNS TO SEW Marie Clayton/Trendstop
Published:2008
The teaching project in each section is illustrated with step-by-step photographs featured at key stages. With 20 projects in total, you'll never run short on inspiration. The accompanying Patternmaker CD combines easy-to-use pattern drafting software with ready-made computerised pattern collections. A simple step-by-step pattern wizard asks you to select the style and details you want, and let the computer draws the pattern for you - in the perfect size and fit!In addition, each the custom measurements of each pattern can be adjusted before it's printed out.

£14.99 ISBN: 9781843403890 UK

MANNERS Kate Spade
Published:2008
A fashion editor and co-creator of the popular handbag line presents a guide to modern etiquette and social conundrums, covering such areas as table manners, thank-you notes, office gossip, and introductions for a range of environments

£12.99 ISBN: 9780743250665 USA

MARDI GRAS TREASURES - COSTUME DESIGNS OF THE GOLDEN AGE
Henri Schindler
Published:2002
The fantastic costumes of Carnival's Golden Age (1870-1930) depicted themes drawn from mythology, epic literature, history, nature, and whimsy. Beginning with the first tableaux and pageant balls of the Twelfth Night Revellers, Rex , and the Knights of Momus, Golden Age costume design was a tremendous spectacle of whimsy, mythology and satire. Costumes included an extraordinary array of creatures: demons, fairies, magicians, animals and vegetables (real and imagined), and a host of others.

£21.00 ISBN: 9781565547247 USA

MARLIES DEKKERS
Published:2008
Marlies Dekkers not only gives insight into the motives of the designer, but also into her style and sources of inspiration , her ambitions and the way she built her one-woman-company, started in an attic, into a true multinational.

£18.00 ISBN: 9789089100429 NETHERLANDS

£20.00 Not Yet Published ISBN: 9780297854524 UK

£12.95 ISBN: 9782759402588 USA

£48.00 ISBN: 9781563674662 USA

£25.00 ISBN: 9781856695404 UK

MOI, VERONIQUE BRANQUHINO TOUTE NUE Veronique Branquinho
The transition from teenage girl to women is an important theme in Branquinho’s designs, an aspect which is reflected in the sources of inspiration she chooses – David Hamilton’s romantic photography, ambiguous characters like Laura Palmer from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, or Emmanuelle, from the erotic film with the same name. The fashion designer’s collections produced since 1997 are collected together and presented here, accompanied by unique photographic material, and essays from a number of different contributors.

£44.00 ISBN: 9789079269020

£37.50 Not Yet Published ISBN: 9789086901364 NETHERLANDS

MY FREEDAMN Rin Tanaka
Published:2008
History of T*Shirts from the 1940s, in 7 sections

£55.00

MY FREEDAMN 7 - VINTAGE BEACH FASHIONS Rin Tanaka
Published:2008
History of beach fashions from the 50's

£82.00

NARCISO RODRIGUEZ Narciso Rodriguez/Betsy Berne
Published:2008
This elegant volume reveals the artist at work in his atelier. Rodriguez takes his inspiration from the life that surrounds him—whether it’s the subtle color of faded paint on a façade, a pattern made by the sand, or the gesture of a young man on a skateboard—and records it in sketchbooks and vivid snapshots. Always experimenting with new textiles and textures, he creates deceptively simple montages—artworks in their own right—that gracefully yield the stunning dresses we see flowing down the runway.

£40.00 ISBN: 9780847831418 USA

NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FASHION DETAILS - OVER 1000 FASHION DETAILS Patrick John Ireland
Published:2008
This is a new edition of a classic title from the Batsford fashion list. With close to 1000 different fashion details, this is the ultimate resource for fashion designers. This new updated and expanded edition covers fashion details from belts and bows to hemlines, necklines through to sleeves, tucks and waistbands. The details span all decades of the 20th and 21st centuries with extra feature illustrations of whole outfits from key periods to give context to certain details, from 1920s flapper outfits to bell-bottoms of the 1960s.

£20.00 ISBN: 9781906388065 UK

NEW ENGINEERING Yuichi Yokoyama
Published:2008
This, the first English language book on Yokoyama's work combines two of the artist's central themes: fighting and building. One set of graphic stories, Public Works , details massive structures being erected across a landscape . Plot is pushed aside in favour of sheer formal verve as we watch buildings, about which we know nothing, come into being. The other set of stories, Combats, is one sequence after another of elegantly choreographed battles

£12.50 ISBN: 9780978972257 USA

£19.95 ISBN: 9780714848624 UK

OPEN - THE WORLD'S BEST NEW FASHION STORES Sportswear International
Published:2007
Focuses on the creme da la creme of contemporary retail store design in the last year and features visually driven "portraits" of nearly 100 outstanding new multi-and monobrand stores all over the globe

£72.00 ISBN: 9783866411357 GERMANY

OPTICAL TEXTURES VOL 1 INCL CD-ROM Vincenzo Sguera
Published:2005
Optical art is a mathematically-oriented form of (usually) abstract art, which uses repetition of simple forms and colours to create vibrating effects, moiré patterns, an exaggerated sense of depth, foreground-background confusion and other visual effects.

£66.00 ISBN: 9788888766027 ITALY

ORLAN + DAVIDELFIN: SUTURE, HIBIDISATION, RECYCLING Orlan/Rocio de la Villa/P A C Sanchez
Published: 2009
The latest project by Orlan, the acclaimed and controversial French body art artist. For the first time, Orlan uses the medium of clothes and fashion instead of plastic surgery. Orlan has made her body, in particular her face, the support and material of her performance art, mostly through plastic surgery. For the first time she abandons this method in her latest work, Suture/Hybridisation/Recycling. This new project represents a new chapter in Orlans work with the artist showing herself as an omitted subject through a paradoxical retrospective of her life, represented by her wardrobe.

£29.95 ISBN: 9788496898301 SPAIN

£22.00 ISBN: 9780868405155 AUSTRALIA

OVER AND OVER - A CATALOG OF HAND-DRAWN PASTTERNS Mike Perry
Published:2008
Of the 55 practitioners of hand-drawn typography represented here, each given between two and six pages to show his or her stuff, none creates work that is remotely ordinary

£20.00 ISBN: 9781568987576 USA

PAISLEY DESIGNS INCL CD-ROM
Exotic and enduring, paisley patterns have decorated textiles and handicraft for thousands of years. Nearly 200 resplendent examples of traditional Indian and European paisley motifs — inspired by trees, leaves, flowers, buds, and birds — are reproduced here in a beautiful visual survey. Color and black-and-white illustrations.

£18.99 ISBN: 9780486998824 USA

PAPER ILLUSIONS - THE ART OF ISABELLE de BORCHGRAVE Barbara & Rene Stoeltie
Published:2008
Belgian artist and designer Isabelle de Borchgrave has created exquisite paper dresses evoking high fashions from the courts of the Medici in the Renaissance to the legendary Fortuny silks of the early twentieth century. Their historical authenticity, combined with their startling realism, caused an overnight sensation when they were first shown in France in 1998. Since then, "Papiers a la mode", her dynamic, light-hearted collection, has travelled all over the world to critical and popular acclaim. "Paper Illusions" does full justice to De Borchgrave's magical workshop, where paper is cut, folded, and painted on the way to being transformed into shimmering visions of beautiful clothing and luxurious living. In Rene Stoeltie's vivid photographs , figures from the history of style seem to breathe in atmospheric rooms, while details of colour, pattern and form jump off the page.

£39.99 ISBN: 9780810971332 USA

£40.00 ISBN: 9780847831289 USA

PARIS STREET ART Romuald Stivine
Published:2008
Nowhere is the pulse of creativity more apparent than in its street art. Charged with colour, humour and social commentary, the 150 images captured in this book represent an open-air museum whose canvases are perpetually transformed. From the city centre to the outer banlieues, from stencil and spray paint to stickers, this collection reveals the creative energy fueling the Paris underground art scene &

£8.99 ISBN: 9783791340531 GERMANY

PATTERN DESIGN - A PERIOD DESIGN SOURCEBOOK Sian Evans
One of the world's best collections of period designs brought together as an invaluable resource for designers of all kinds, from fabric, textile, wallpaper, stained glass to graphic and fashion designers. This collection of over 500 designs covers wallpaper, textiles, furnishings, costume, tiles and ceramics. The designs range from medieval through renaissance and the 19th century right up to the 1970s; from classic French 17th-century wallpaper through William Morris pomegranate designs to 1950s children's wallpaper.The book is arranged by type of design and motifs - geometric, floral, abstract, figurative - to make it as accessible to designers as possible

£20.00 ISBN: 9781905400676 UK

£57.00 ISBN: 9780130262431 USA

PATTERN SOURCEBOOK - CHINESE STYLE INCL CD-ROM Shigeki Nakamura
250 images are included and organised into 10 useful categories to make this a highly inspirational and practical reference for designers and artists, both professional and amateur.

£10.99 ISBN: 9781592534975 USA

£10.99 ISBN: 9781592534982 USA

PATTERN SOURCEBOOK: AROUND THE WORLD INCL CD-ROM Shigeki Nakamura
A magnificent and useful collection of world style patterns, carefully selected images are organized in 10 categories making this book a wonderful resource for designers

£10.99 ISBN: 9781592534968 USA

PERSIAN DESIGNS AND MOTIFS INCL CD-ROM
Published:2008
This stunning collection spans the full spectrum of Iranian art , from prehistoric pottery painting to 20th-century calligraphy. Drawn from rare collections around the world, 271 black-and-white motifs illustrate mythical creatures, florals, arabesques, medallions, scrolls, geometrics, border decorations, and much more. Each design is ready for use in a multitude of design areas

£13.99 ISBN: 9780486998756 USA

PETIT PATTERN BOOK - DOTS & STRIPES INCL CD-ROM
Published:2008
A great selection of funky patterns, with the ilk of Dots & Stripes about them. The potential for any designer who gets their hands on this series is without bounds.

£16.95 ISBN: 9784861003844 JAPAN

PETIT PATTERN BOOK - POP AND MODERN INCL CD-ROM
Published:2008
Continuing with the popular jpg series this book focuses on the trends of pop. Included in the back is a section on "how to make" a lampshade, shopping bag and purse

£17.95 ISBN: 9784861005237 JAPAN

PICTOPLASMA - THE CHARACTER ENCYCLOPAEDIA Peter Thaler/Lars Denicke
Published:2008
Delivers an in-depth exploration of the latest tendencies in contemporary character design and art, spanning drawing, design and painting to its use in installations and sculpture

£38.50 Order Only ISBN: 9783981045833 GERMANY

PICTURES Tim Walker
Published:2008
A comprehensive overview of renowned fashion photographer Tim Walker's work and creative process

£70.00 ISBN: 9783832792459 GERMANY

POPS A PORTER VOL 1 - CHARACTERS & PATTERNS INCL CD-ROM
Published:2008
Pops-à-porter is a new collection of non-seasonal graphic books that offers decorative designs, patterns and textures addressed to designers. Each book attaches a free CD-ROM that it contains all the designs shown in the book as vector files, royalty free and that can be used to decorate a wide range of items such as, t-shirts, handbags, sneakers, childcare items, doll dresses, advertising material, watches, mobiles, and many others.1º Edition: POPS-À-PORTER CHARACTERS & PATTERNSThe first volume, already published, is focused on characters, their application on patterns and textures.

£88.00 ISBN: 9788493588106 SPAIN

POP 60s Magnum Photos
Published:2008
Culled from the archives of Magnum Photos, the world's preeminent photo agency, "Pop 60s" celebrates the visionaries, icons and memorable moments of the decade that transformed the fabric of society. From Andy Warhol, Twiggy and James Bond to Beatlemania, biker culture and geodesic domes, the reverberations of the Swinging Sixties are felt in today's art, music, design and fashion

£15.00 ISBN: 9780810995260 USA

£40.00 ISBN: 9781855143197 UK

PRODUCING FASHION - COMMERCE, CULTURE AND CONSUMERS Regina Lee Blaszczyk
Is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that shows how economic institutions in Europe and North America laid the foundation for the global fashion system and sustained it commercially through the mechanisms of advertising, licensing, marketing, publishing and retailing

£39.00 ISBN: 9780812240375 USA

£18.95 ISBN: 9781851495689 UK

£19.99 ISBN: 9781844034796 UK

RED HATS & THE WOMEN WHO WEAR THEM Red Hat Society
Published:2006
On festive display here are some of the most amazing, unique, elegant, and just plain wacky works of millinery art ever designed since the first red hat was donned in 1997. Best of all, the models showing off the impressive headgear are the very inspirational ladies who created them. These women happily offer colourful commentary on their handiwork, from information on the hats' construction to anecdotes about the reactions they evoke.

£8.99 ISBN: 9781579909949 USA

REFLECTION OF A MAN - THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF STANLEY MARCUS
Oscar De la Renta/Roy Flukinger/Jerrie Marcus Smith
Published:2008
A representative selection of the thousands of photographs Marcus shot on business trips in Europe, on vacations in Mexico, and during family celebrations .These photographs underscore what we already know about the man in terms of an eye for elegance, a preoccupation with merchandising, and an enthusiasm for the enjoyment of life, but they also reveal a talent for capturing the purity of a moment and memorializing instances of beauty.

£38.00 ISBN: 9780979568107 USA

£24.99 ISBN: 9780486998893 USA

RETAIL THERAPY - STORE DESIGN TODAY Andrea Boekel
Published:2007
This work features fantastic ideas for retailers, merchandisers, interior designers and architects. This new addition to the "International Spaces" series presents exciting retail projects from around the world. The role that architecture plays in branding, marketing, and the ultimate success or failure of retail ventures cannot be underestimated; indeed, the relationship between the architecture of retail stores and customer behaviour is increasingly researched and highly specialised subject. Recent collaborations between some high-profile architects and retail icons have brought about a shift in the perception of retail architecture. This book illustrates the potential of such collaborations.

£30.00 ISBN: 9781864701159 AUSTRALIA

£45.00 ISBN: 9780955831409 UK

£20.00 ISBN: 9788861306165 ITALY

SECRET SERVICES - YOU VERY OWN POCKET CONCIERGE Cary Whitley
Published:2008
Guide to fast tracking the very best services

£12.99 ISBN: 9780955648106 UK

£30.00 ISBN: 9781845332143 UK

£25.00 ISBN: 9780811863445 USA

SHANGHAI GIRL GETS ALL DRESSED UP Beverley Jackson
Published:2005
It was within the sensual, cinematic setting of 1930s Shanghai that traditional Chinese fashion changed forever. Beverley Jackson explores the city that fostered radical cultural and social change and the daring and fashionable women - including actresses, courtesans, and showgirls - who wore the fabulous and revealing clothes known as cheongsam, qi pao, or Suzy Wong dresses. Included are more than 100 new and vintage photographs of the city, the clothes, and the people who led the trends.

£22.00 ISBN: 9781580083676 USA

SHD - SUPER HOLLAND DESIGN Tomoko Sakamoto/Ramon Prat
Published:2008
Explores new functionality in contemporary Dutch design, featured designers transform concepts into strong messages, using new techniques and technologies

£42.00 ISBN: 9788496954199 SPAIN

SHOBEN FASHION TOOLKIT Shoben Fashionmedia
Published: 2008
For perfect pattern planning. All contained within a snowpake see-through A4 folder.

£13.00 UK

£12.99 ISBN: 9780750253109 UK

£17.99 ISBN: 9781861978882 UK

SHOES - GALLERY CALENDAR 2009
Published: 2008
313 pages of glorious colour photographs, with Saturday and Sunday combined

£13.00 ISBN: 9780761149996 USA

SHOES MASTER VOL 10
Published: 2008
Best in sneakers from Japan A/W 2008/2009

£18.50 ISBN: 4910054161182 JAPAN

SIGNATURE PRINTS - JET SET GLAMOUR OF THE 60s & 70s Roseann Ettinger
Published:2008
Non-wrinkling, silk jersey clothing, with bold and colorful prints signed by the most distinguished fashion designers of the day, became popular in the 1960s, especially for glamorous people who traveled worldwide. It was dynamic clothing photographed by the celebrity press that became coveted by the general public. This book is the first serious record of those textiles that swept the fashion world and inspired copycat items for ready-to wear customers. Over 350 gorgeous color photographs display party and casual styles of “signature prints” that remain classic today.

£32.50 ISBN: 9780764328961 USA

SILK ART EMBROIDERY - A WOMAN'S HISTORY OF ORNAMENT & EMPOWERMENT Donna Cardwell
Published:2008
An extraordinary collection of antique linens embroidered with incredible skill, embroidery books, magazines and other period item are shown in 383 images that help to explain the story. This delightful story of noble endeavour and the embroidery style itself is a feast for the senses.

£24.95 ISBN: 9780764329067 USA

SIMONETTA - THE FIRST LADY OF ITALIAN FASHION M L Frisa/J Clark/V C Caratozzolo
Published:2008
Simonetta, a living legend as beautiful as any of her models, is an aristocrat by birth and has spent her youth amidst the international celebrities for whom she designed her sophisticated clothes; among them: Lauren Bacall, Dorothy McGuire, and Silvana Mangano. From the forties to the seventies , from the Rome atelier in her family’s Palazzo to her Paris boutique on Rue François, the innovative lines of her daring creative fashion had a deep effect on the taste of the tight circle of aristocrats she was part of as well as on the lifestyles of consumers in the great international market.

£10.00 ISBN: 9788831793995

£27.50 ISBN: 9789889822989 HONG KONG

SKATEBOARD ART OF JIM PHILLIPS Jim Phillips
Published:2008
This retropspective on Jim's skateboard art bobards the reader wtih colorful skateboard decks, logos, ad art, ad layouts , photos and stickers to illustrate the history of skateboarding from the urethane revolution up to the present. The story traces the roots of skateboarding with more than a half-century of Phillips' involvement. It provides insight into the creative evolution of the sport and the worldwide interest and influence that has occurred from this California artist.

£24.95 ISBN: 9780764328077 USA

SNEAKERS Zhang Huiguang/Luo Lv
Published:2008
Traces the evolution of sneakers from early canvas shoes to the sophisticated innovations, materials and aesthetics of the present day sneaker

£19.99 ISBN: 9781904915249 UK

STOLEN MOMENTS - THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF RONNY JAQUES Pamela Fiori
Published: 2008
In Stolen Moments, his work is chronicled for the first time in book form by prominet publishing figure and close friend Pamela Fiori

£17.99 ISBN: 9780980155723 USA

STREET T Louis Bou
Published:2008
The T-shirt may be the most ubiquitous, affordable, and popular item of clothing. Over the years it has served as a means to broadcast social, musical and political affiliations. Most recently, the T-shirt has become a creative tool for expressing inventive design. "Street T" takes an off-beat look at the hottest t-shirt designers and most unique tees being worn on the streets today

£17.99 ISBN: 9780061441523 USA

£12.99 ISBN: 9780743250672 USA

£16.99 ISBN: 9780446579995 USA

STYLE DRIVE SUMMER SET VOL 1 INCL CD-ROM
Published:2008
Presents a wide collection of Summer coordinates and accessories for the beach, sport and outdoor. Dedicated to boy and girls, each theme is very easy to use, since graphics, illustrations, logos, labels of patterns and accessories are contained in the enclosed dvd in full vectorial and processable format.

£150.00 Order Only ISBN: 9788895663050 ITALY

STYLIN' - AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPRESSIVE CULTURE, FROM ITS BEGINNINGS TO THE ZOOT SUIT Shane White/Graham White
Published:1999
Focusing on such variegated indicators of black style as dress, hair. body language and dance, revealing an evolving semiotics of black self-creating that has beeen designed from its very outset to impose a degree of individuality on the numbing uniformity bred of slavery, poverty, Jim Crow laws and white racism

£13.95 ISBN: 9780801482830 USA

SUPER HEROES - FASHION & FANTASY Harold Koda
Published:2008
This richly illustrated book explores how radical couture, avant-garde sportswear, and state-of-the-art military garments - as seen through the lens of the superhero - can be metaphors for sex, power, and politics. Beginning with the origins of the superhero costume, this volume looks at how designers have been influenced by iconographic components such as the cape, mask, boots, and unitard. Costumes, such as those worn by Batman and Catwoman, are examined as reflections of sexual and physical prowess, while others, most notably those of Superman and Captain America, are analyzed as political propaganda.

£30.00 ISBN: 9780300136708 USA

SUSTAINABLE FASHION - WHY NOW, A CONVERSATION ABOUT ISSUES, PRACTICES AND POSSIBILITIES Janet Hethorn/Connie Ulasewicz
Published:2008
Through a collection of specially commissioned essays, this exciting new title examines the issues of sustainability that designers, product developers, and consumers confront as they go about their business of creating, wearing, and recycling clothing and fashion. Through a lively range of perspectives, the authors engage their readers in a dialogue on sustainable fashion that generates new ideas on how to produce fashion with a sense of ethics, organic or renewable resources, and socially responsible manufacturing techniques

£42.00 ISBN: 9781563675348 USA

SUSTAINABLE FASHION & TEXTILES - DESIGN JOURNEYS Kate Fletcher
Published:2008
Sustainable Fashion and Textiles" brings together for the first time information about lifecycle environmental impacts of fashion and textiles, practical alternatives, design concepts and social innovation. It challenges existing ideas about the scope and potential of sustainable fashion and textiles and sets out a broader, more interconnected and forward-looking picture, drawing on ideas of human needs, industrial ecology, speed and rhythms, and participatory actions, as well as knowledge of materials.

£24.95 ISBN: 9781844074815 UK

SWISS FASHION DESIGN (DVD)
Published:2008
Spectacular fashion shows, music videos, striking visuals, models and bonus features

£16.45 ISBN: 880913000195 SWITZERLAND

T-SHIRT - ONE SMALL ITEM, ONE GIANT IMPACT Troth Wells
Published:2007
Today, they are the ultimate apparel: branding, colours, easy gifts, easycare, fashion statement...you can decide what suits you. But too many are produced by sweatshop labour, from cotton doused with pesticides that kills people and the environment. Now, the trade justice movement seeks fair trade for cotton producers - a new slogan for today's T-shirt ."One Small Item, One Giant Impact" - the "Trigger Issue" series exposes everyday objects in a new light. Short, sharp, and provocative - themes are taken from the award-winning "New Internationalist" magazine -

£4.99 ISBN: 9781904456780 UK

T-SHIRT FACTORY INCL CD-ROM
Published:2007
"T-Shirt Factory" features designs selected by Beams T, a hugely popular fashion retail chain and manufacturer in Japan devoted to T-shirts. Beams T regards the T-shirt as a canvas for new ideas in art and design, and in each year of its 20-year history has invited artists from around the world to create designs for their T-shirts, 300 of which are featured here.

£14.99 ISBN: 9780061138812 USA

T-SHIRTS WORLDWIDE Luo lv
Published:2006
More than just a piece of clothing, t-shirts have become the quintessential personal billboards of attitude and style . Aside its simple graphic design, a t-shirt is now a symbolic medium for designers. Putting together the best of cutting edge and traditional t-shirt design, this modern style lexicon is immortalized and exalted in these pages, making this compilation an essential for designers and t-shirts addicts

£30.00 ISBN: 9788496309180 SPAIN

£29.99 ISBN: 9781845203771 UK

£25.00 ISBN: 9781845130985 UK

£34.95 ISBN: 9782759402892 USA

THE AMERICAN LOOK - FASHION, SPORTSWEAR AND THE IMAGE OF WOMEN IN 1930s & 1940s NEW YORK Rebecca Arnold
Published: 2008
From the end of the 1930s through the 1940s, the New York fashion industry came into its own. Sportswear, which had evolved from its sporting origins to include simple casual wear for town and country, travel and leisure, was at the centre of this shift. Sportswear provided busy career women, college girls and housewives with clothes that could be worn on all occasions.Drawing on a wonderful array of sources, from fashion magazines to department store records, this book is the rich and absorbing narrative and analysis of how New York sportswear evolved to become the definitive American style and how a modern fashion aesthetic was born.

£19.99 ISBN: 9781860647635 UK

£11.99 ISBN: 9780061209048 USA

THE BLACK LEATHER JACKET Mick Farren
Published:2008
The story behind the appeal of leather, from its roots among the motorcycle dispatch riders, World War 1 flying aces to its adoption as part of the uniform of post-war rock'n'roll, using more than a hundred evocative photographs

£14.99 ISBN: 9780859654104 UK

THE CORSET AND THE CRINOLINE
Published:2008
This profusely illustrated fashion history surveys the fascinating range of undergarments that whittled the female waist to its most slender proportions. Discover how the use of wood, whalebone, steel, hoops, and tight laces had a gripping influence on shaping the figures of women from ancient Greece to 19th-century Vienna.

£11.99 ISBN: 9780486461861 USA

THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO STRETCH PATTERN CUTTING Shoben Fashion Media
Published:2008
Dresses, Leotards, Swimwear, Tops and more, using Chart 10: Stretch Body Block Pattern.

£13.50 UK

£30.00 ISBN: 9781563674655 USA

THE FASHION DESIGNER'S DIRECTORY OF SHAPE AND FORM
Simon Travers-Spencer/Zar ida Zaman
Published:2008
The first part of the book deals with the basic elements of fashion design: sleeves, necklines, hems, ties and fastenings, collars, cuffs, waistbands and embellishments. The great majority of the book comprises a vast resource of unique and original design detail ideas. A combination of photography and fashion illustrations show a range of creative options. Garment details are discussed in their own right and as part of a garment. There is also a section on using specialty fabrics such as silk and organza whose characteristics determine the final shape and fit of a garment.

£14.99 ISBN: 9780713687965 UK

THE FASHION QUESTIONNAIRE Michael Specter
Published:2008
The Fashion Questionnaire is rare, inside look at the creative icons who influence not just fashion but contemporary culture. An insightful essay by Michael Specter on the evolution of fashion and its influence introduces the designers' answers.

£19.95 ISBN: 9782759402717 USA

THE GLAMOUR OF BELLVILLE SASSOON David Sassoon/Sinty Stemp
Published: 2008
This is the story of David Sassoon, the fashion designer whose name has been synonymous with the world of glamour for the last 50 years. It begins in the couture world of the '50s where straight out of the Royal College of Art, Sassoon joined society dressmaker, Belinda Bellville and was instantly thrust into the world of debs, duchesses, the aristocracy and the brand new jetsetters. This is a fashion book with a difference - gossipy, fun, informative and revealing - it is a fascinating personal recollection of a sparkling career spanning 5 decades, dressing some of the world's most beautiful and charismatic women of their day,

£35.00 ISBN: 9781851495757 UK

THE GODDESS EXPERIENCE Gisele Scanlon
Published:2008
So would you like to live your very own Goddess experience? Whatever kind of Goddess you are, you're sure to find a little inspiration on every page of this beautifully packaged, sumptuously designed new book. What makes you happy? Experiences are what matter to me the most. I prefer doing than owning. Oh and being able to laugh out loud and dance on tables counts too! Join me on my hunt for the new experience in everything. From dressing tables to dim-sum, trainers to tea, pod hotels to pop-up stores and shops that spray the scent of Christmas trees to bring pure and simple joy -- here are the people, places and things that make me smile. Gisele Scanlon x

£16.99 ISBN: 9780007274710 UK

£14.99 ISBN: 9781408101445 UK