Brathwaite, Lisa D.
Summary: "The life work of Eunice W. Johnson, co-founder of Ebony magazine and a visionary who championed Black elegance through the Ebony Fashion Fair--a cross-country fashion show fundraiser"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books Inc. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JOHLodi, Hafsa
Summary: "This book speaks to the various personalities and companies who have helped shape the modest fashion industry into such a significant retail sector, while also exploring the controversies that lie at the heart of the movement, such as one pressing question: even if it covers the skin but is flamboyant, modeled with the purpose of attracting attention, and publicly promoted on social media, can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neem Tree Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.92 LODSummary: Paris, Capital of Fashion accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology), New York's only museum dedicated solely to the art of fashion. This lavishly-illustrated book is edited by MFIT's director and chief curator, Valerie Steele, also the author of the acclaimed Paris Fashion: A Cultural History. This new book opens with an important essay on how and why...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.92 PARHyland, Véronique
Summary: "Everything--from societal changes to the progress (or lack thereof) of women's rights to the hidden motivations behind what we choose to wear to align ourselves with a particular social group--can be tracked through clothing. Veronique Hyland examines thought-provoking questions such as: Why has the "French girl" persisted as our most undying archetype? What does "dressing for yourself" really...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.009 HYLSteele, Valerie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.2 STEBenda, Camille
Summary: "Dressing the Resistance' explores how everyday people have harnessed the visual power of clothing, accessories and costume to spur social and cultural change. Throughout history, societies have used clothing to show acceptance and exclusion, convention and subversion, group belonging and rejection. In the same way, fashion, clothing, textiles and costume have served their own critical role in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Archetectural Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.0086 BENDowns, Alison
Summary: "Any reader who has ever considered a career in fashion will find this guide to be an invaluable resource. Beyond the usual paths, the reader will find some interests he or she may not have previously considered, including fit modeling, public relations, and blogging. Each section is topped off with an extensive and thorough list of resources and interviews with professionals in the field of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 331 DOWCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 331 DOWGarelick, Rhonda K.
Summary: "Little black dresses. Fake pearls. Jersey knit. Blazers. Ballet flats. Today--and for nearly the last hundred years--we all see some version of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel every time we pass a woman on the street. But few among us realize that Chanel's rolein the events of the twentieth century was as pervasive as her influence on fashion, or how deeply she absorbed and then brilliantly reimagined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2014
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Summary: "Ten original fashion origami models, including a variety of dresses, with written instructions and illustrated diagrams."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.55 SONSecrest, Meryle
Summary: "The first biography of the grand couturier, surrealist, and embattled figure (her medium was apparel), whose extraordinary work has stood the test of time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHIAPARELLI, ELSA SECPrzybyszewski, Linda.
Summary: "As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to dress. We chase fads, choose inappropriate materials and unattractive cuts, and waste energy tottering in heels when we could be moving gracefully. Quite simply, we lack the fashion know-how we need to dress professionally and flatteringly. As historian and expert dressmaker Linda Przybyszewski...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.9 PRZCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Life PrzybyszewskiRubenstein, Hal.
Summary: "100 Unforgettable Dresses is filled with the stories, secrets, intrigue, and insights behind the most indelible dresses in our collective memories. Featuring looks from the runway, film, television, the red carpet, and the worlds of royalty and politics, this book celebrates the staying power of these gorgeous, sleek, sultry, and outrageous creations as well as the lasting impact they've had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Design 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.2 RUBHodgkins, Lisa
Summary: "In the last half of the 19th century, the women of America were beginning to develop their own sense of style. Although influenced by European fashions and the social and economic changes of the time, they made clothing choices based upon their personal aspirations and their practical everyday needs. Providing an overview of fashion influences for each decade from the 1860s to the end of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.2 HODRubin, Susan Goldman
Summary: "Award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin introduces readers to the most well-known fashion designer in the world, Coco Chanel. Beginning with the difficult years Chanel spent in an orphanage, Goldman Rubin traces Coco's development as a designer and demonstrates how her determination to be independent helped her gain worldwide recognition. Coco Chanel focuses on the obstacles Chanel faced as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CHAWilson, Jennifer Lane
Summary: "Long before Amelia Earhart became a superstar, she was a girl who longed to touch the stars. But the dresses women had to wear at the time made those dreams seem almost impossible. Amelia didn't let that stop her. As a young aviator breaking records and expectations, she learned to fly her plane with flair. Later, she dared to create a trendsetting fashion line for active women like herself....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WILKrishnamurthy, Sowmya
Summary: "A cinematic narrative of glamour, grit, luxury, and luck, Fashion Killa draws on exclusive interviews with the leaders of the fashion world to tell the story of the hip-hop artists, designers, stylists, and unsung heroes who fought the power and reinvented style around the world over the last fifty years. Set in the sartorial scenes of New York, Paris, and Milan, journalist Sowmya...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 KRICline, Elizabeth L.
Summary: Clothing is one of the most personal expressions of who we are. In her landmark investigation Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, Elizabeth L. Cline first revealed fast fashion's hidden toll on the environment, garment workers, and even our own satisfaction with our clothes. The Conscious Closet shows exactly what we can do about it. Whether your goal is to build an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.3 CLICroll, Jennifer
Summary: "Explores the lives of ten famous women who have used clothing to make a statement, change perceptions, break rules, attract power, or express their individuality. Included are Cleopatra, Marie Antoinette, Coco Chanel, Frida Kahlo, Marlene Dietrich, DianaVreeland, Madonna, Rei Kawakubo, Kathleen Hanna and Lady Gaga. Sidebar subjects include: Elizabeth I, Marilyn Monroe, Rihanna, and Vivienne...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 CROHaart, Julia
Summary: "A riveting, inspiring memoir of one woman's escape from an extremist religious sect and an extraordinary rise from housewife to shoe designer, to CEO and co-owner of the modeling agency Elite World Group. Ever since she was a child, every aspect of JuliaHaart's life-what she wore, what she ate, what she thought-was controlled by the dictates of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. At nineteen, after a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAART, JULIA HAAAntonelli, Paola
Summary: Items: Is Fashion Modern? presents 111 items of clothing and accessories that have had a profound impact on the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. Arranged A-Z encyclopedia-style, it includes designs as iconic as Levi's 501 jeans, the pearl necklace and Yves Saint Laurent's Le Smoking, and as ancient and rich as the sari, the Breton shirt, the kippah and the keffiyeh. The catalog...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Modern Art 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391 ANTBehnke, Alison.
Summary: Looks at the different modes of dress in America in the mid twentieth century, from every day clothes to high fashion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 391.00973 BEHChaney, Lisa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHANEL, COCO CHAMcGraw, Sally
Summary: Presents tips and confidence for teenagers who are seeking to exhibit their own fashion style, no matter their body type.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2017