Iris
391
APF
Originally released as a motion picture in 2009. An
in-depth look into the life of fashion icon Iris Apfel, and her husband of over
60 years: the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven with
an outsized presence on the New York & Palm Beach fashion scenes. Despite
the abundance of glamour in her current life, Iris continues to embrace the
values and work ethic established during a middle-class Queens upbringing
during the Great Depression.
Paul
Smith : gentleman designer.
391
SMI
An intimate and provoking portrait of "Lord Paul
Smith", quirky designer and formidable businessman, through exclusive
access to a poet of British fashion.
Paul Smith has 400 shops and outlets in 35 countries, 12
clothing lines, 400 million Euros in yearly revenues, sales topping Chanel's,
partnerships with Evian, Apple, and Austin, and prestigious bicycle and race
car brands.
The secret of his success? Who is Paul Smith? How has he
managed to get millions of men interested in fashion? How did a modest man from
Nottingham become synonymous with elegance in men's fashion?
"This documentary celebrates 40 years of English
fashion designer Paul Smith's success and how he built his brand empire around
English pop culture. Paul Smith has 400 shops and outlets in 35 countries,
partnerships with Evian, Apple, and Austin, and prestigious bicycle and race
car brands. The film observes Smith as he creates his classic clothes with a
twist for men and women from his London headquarters. How did this modest bloke
from Nottingham become synonymous with elegance in men's fashion?"
Fear
of fashion : critical cases on the anxiety of fashion
391.001
BUS
This book examines fashion as a phenomenon driven by fear
as much as desire. It presents a collection of cases written during the course
"Critical Fashion and Social Justice" at Parsons School of Design,
which investigate the dynamics that propel aesthetic competition, anxiety, and
bullying.
Fashioning
Memory: Vintage Style and Youth Culture
391.001
JEN
The valuing of old clothes as vintage and the recollection
of the sartorial past, whether through second-hand consumption or the wearing
of new old-fashioned clothes, has become a widespread phenomenon. This book
illuminates sartorial and bodily engagements with memory and time through the
temporal and nostalgic potency of fashion, and what this means for contemporary
wearers.
Based on in-depth ethnographic research including participant observation and interviews with sixties enthusiasts in Germany, who relocate British mod style into the twenty-first century, Jenss examines the practices and experiences that are part of the sartorial remembering of the sixties, from hunting flea markets and eBay, to the affect of material and mediated memories on vintage wearers.
Jenss offers unique insights into the fashioning of time, cultural memory, and modernity, tracing the history and current appeal of vintage in fashion and youth culture, and asking: what kind of experiences of temporality and memory are enacted through fashion? How have evaluations of second-hand clothes shifted in the twentieth century? Fashioning Memory provides a unique insight into the diverse use of fashion as a memory mode and asks how style is remembered, performed, transformed, and reinvested across time, place, and generation.
Based on in-depth ethnographic research including participant observation and interviews with sixties enthusiasts in Germany, who relocate British mod style into the twenty-first century, Jenss examines the practices and experiences that are part of the sartorial remembering of the sixties, from hunting flea markets and eBay, to the affect of material and mediated memories on vintage wearers.
Jenss offers unique insights into the fashioning of time, cultural memory, and modernity, tracing the history and current appeal of vintage in fashion and youth culture, and asking: what kind of experiences of temporality and memory are enacted through fashion? How have evaluations of second-hand clothes shifted in the twentieth century? Fashioning Memory provides a unique insight into the diverse use of fashion as a memory mode and asks how style is remembered, performed, transformed, and reinvested across time, place, and generation.
Experimental
fashion : performance art, carnival and the grotesque body
391.008
GRA
Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and
carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between
fashion and performance art, from Lady Gaga's raw meat dress to Leigh Bowery's
performance style. The book examines the designers and performance artists at
the turn of the twenty-first century whose work challenges established codes of
what represents the fashionable body. These innovative people, the book argues,
make their challenges through dynamic strategies of parody, humour and
inversion. It explores the experimental work of modern designers such as
Georgina Godley, Bernhard Willhelm, Rei Kawakubo and fashion designer,
performance artist, and club figure Leigh Bowery. It also discusses the
increased centrality of experimental fashion through the pop phenomenon, Lady
Gaga.
Fashion v sport
391.4796 SAL
This cutting-edge book takes a fresh look at the fascinating relationship
between the global industries of fashion and sport and accompanies an
exhibition at the V&A. 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.
Couture
unfolded : innovative pleats, folds and draping in fashion design
646.4072
GIA
Working from the simplest possible form the book addresses
all major dimensional techniques, shows how they are related and gives examples
of variations both traditional and modern. This book can be considered as an
encyclopaedia of folding manipulates, explaining step by step the world of
folds and how to apply them in practise. This title teaches readers to get
folding finishes for a unique and special customisation in fashion. The explanations
about the different types of pleating and diagrams are very clear and easy to
follow, showing the stages of construction and the finished garments. So this
title includes an analysis of the use of fold in fashion throughout history and
also a helpful tutorial using 30 examples from some of the most innovative and
avant-garde designers in fashion today.
Aware
: art fashion identity.
391.008
GSK
Through clothing, we celebrate or suppress identity,
indicate allegiances and communicate our positions, aspirations and desires.
Little wonder, then, that so many contemporary artists are invested in
exploring the role of clothing in the construction of self and society.
"Aware: Art Fashion Identity" reflects on these artists and their
work, and what it says about our physical covering and our constructed personal
environments. Essayists Gabi Scardi, Lucy Orta and Joanne Entwistle consider
issues of belonging, nationality, displacement and political and social
confrontation in the artwork of Yinka Shonibare, Sharif Waked, Alicia Framis,
Meschac Gaba, Dai Rees and Vito Acconci. Personal accounts of the role of
clothing are drawn out through the work of Helen Storey, Marie-Ange Guilleminot
and Claudia Losi, while the art and designs of Hussein Chalayan, Gillian
Wearing and Andreas Gursky offer a platform for a discussion of the connection
between fashion, clothing and performance.
Wear
your chair : when fashion meets interior design
745.401
GRI
Wear Your Chair was originally developed as a
multidisciplinary design course by Griffin and Collins, chairs of fashion
design and interior design departments. Realising that students were visual
learners, they saw the necessity of teaching students to be aware of design in
its many forms and applications. They envisioned a course that would appeal to
a variety of design majors. The book draws upon the many historic precedents of
designers overlapping several design principles, such as Paul Poiret who
designed clothing, furniture and textiles. The ultimate goal of this text will
be to increase students' understanding of the significant, subtle, and often
subconscious roles that apparel and interior design play in our lives.
Designing
with smart textiles
746.04
KET
If you want to understand, and be a part of, the creative
revolution in materials design, then Designing with Smart Textiles is the
complete toolkit you need to get started. Beginning by introducing the
terminology and key applications, the book goes on to examine the key design
processes needed to develop interactive textile design concepts, with detailed
projects and examples to help you apply these approaches in your own practice.
Case studies and interviews with innovative designers introduce you to
different artistic and technological practices, and demonstrate how
world-leading researchers are creating new technologies, yarns, fabrics, and
applications. Practitioners share unique insights into their processes, and
Tech Tips so you can build on their research in your own work. Featured
designers include: Yemi Awosile, Joanna Berzowska, Lauren Bowker, Marina
Castan, Cute Circuit, Felecia Davis, Debbie Davies, Delia Dumitrescu, Martha
Glazzard, Ramyah Gowrishankar, Intelligent Textiles Ltd., Sara Keith, Ebru
Kurbak and Irene Posch, Barbara Layne, Eef Lubbers, Anna Persson, Mette
Ramsgaard Thomsen, Rose Sinclair, Mike Starbuck, Lynn Tandler, Paola Tognazzi,
Sarah Walker and Linda Worbin
Stoppers
: photographs from my life at Vogue
778.997492
VOG
The name Phyllis Posnick is synonymous with Vogue and the
extraordinary fashion editorials the magazine's audience loves. Posnick is best
known for creating photo editorials to illustrate the magazine's Beauty and
Health articles, but cast off any ideas you have about close-ups of lips and
eyelashes. Instead, picture models bathed in paint or posing next to cuts of
fresh meat. This collection invites readers to glimpse the complex production
process--and the collaboration and creativity--behind each extraordinary
editorial. The book features images by a who's who of legendary photographers:
Irving Penn, Steven Klein, Annie Leibovitz, Mario Testino, Patrick
Demarchelier, Tim Walker, Anton Corbijn and Helmut Newton. The book includes a
foreword by Anna Wintour and is punctuated by Posnick's personal memories and
irreverence.
