Lanvin
By Dean L Merceron
A visual documentary of the key collections.
 Gucci wars: how I survived murder and intrigue at the heart of the world's biggest fashion house
By Jenny Gucci
 The fashion designer's directory of fashion and shape: over 500 mix-and-match elements for creative clothing design
By Simon Travers-Spencer and Zarida Zaman
 The visual dictionary of fashion design
By Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris
An exploration of the many terms used in thefashion industry with illustrations from history.
 Modern menswear
By Hywel Davies
Ideas for communicating individuality through your choice of clothes. Some quite flamboyant unusual ideas that subvert traditional masculine dress codes.
Madame Gres: spinx of fashion
By Patricia Mears
While the classically inspired Grecian gown designed by Madame Alix Gres is widely recognized and admired, little else of the brilliant couturier's life or work has received close attention. This book, by far the most detailed study yet published on this influential fashion designer, carefully analyzes her innovative construction techniques and connects her designs to the art styles and movements that inspired and informed her aesthetic. Gorgeously illustrated with images of fabulous clothes designed by Madame Gres, the book focuses on her long career (spanning the early 1930s to the late 1980s) and refutes the previous understanding that her work was static and unchanging. Rather, her designs consistently changed and evolved, even as a thread of continuity connected them. The volume discusses how sculpture and the construction of non-western clothing inspired Gres's fashion, and examines numerous couture versions of her saris, ponchos, serapes, caftans, three-dimensional sculptural pieces, and Grecian gowns. In addition, the book constructs a timeline of her career and discusses her secretive private life, including the circumstances of her death, inexplicably concealed by her daughter for over a year.
 Fashion: a history from the 18th century to the 20th century
Volume 1. 18th and 19th century.
Volume 2. 20th century.
Photographs of a vast selection of historical garments from the Kyoto Costume Institute.
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