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Series
Meant to be volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"In this modern-retelling of Cinderella, plus-size Cindy dreams of becoming a shoe designer. But when a spot opens up on her stepmother's famous reality dating TV competition, Cindy is thrust into the spotlight in ways she never thought possible"--
4) Coco Chanel
Author
Formats
Description
Presents designer Coco Chanel's early life in an orphanage, where her sewing genius leads her to become a cabaret performer, hat maker, and international fashion icon.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xii, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Tracy Peacock Tynan grew up in London in the 1950s and 60s, privy to her parents glamorous parties and famous friendsLaurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, and Orson Welles. Cecil Beaton and Katharine Hepburn were her godparents. Tracy was named after Katherine Hepburns character, Tracy Lord, in the classic film, The Philadelphia Story. These stylish showbiz people were role models for Tracy, who became a clotheshorse at a young age. Tracys father, Kenneth...
Author
Publisher
Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
"Vivienne Westwood always stood up for the outsider--even at school. When she grew up, she created a fashion philosophy that went against the grain and celebrated the music of the moment: punk. Vivienne became a world famous designer by staying true to herself and speaking up for what she believed in. This inspiring story of the outspoken fashion designer's life features a facts and photos section at the back"--Back cover.
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Formats
Description
In her first book, fashion legend Norma Kamali offers readers a stylish, inspiring, and heartfelt handbook for gliding boldly through each of life's decades with purpose and power. Manifesto, memoir, and essential guide, its pages are informed by 50 years of Kamali's twists, turns, triumphs, and failures experienced while finding the courage and conviction to race after her dreams and never look back. At 75, Kamali looks--and acts--nearly half her...
Author
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
91 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
This portrait of a fiercely independent creative thinker is filled with whimsical pictures and informative texts to depict the entire arc of Coco's life and career, from schoolgirl rebel to haute couture icon. Young Gabrielle came from a poor family, was orphaned at age 12, and learned to sew in a convent school. She worked as a seamstress and sang in cabarets, where she was given the nickname Coco. This story--and the remarkable career that followed--is...
10) Mary Quant
Author
Publisher
V&A Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Description
"Mary Quant is a fashion icon. The first focussed study of her career, this book shows how she revolutionised fashion, harnessing youth, streetstyle and mass production to create a new look for everyone. The book surveys the development of her business in the context of British, European and American fashion in the post war period, and explores how her innovative marketing created a powerful global brand. Featuring new photography of Quant garments,...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
312 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
A sweeping biography of one of the most influential and controversial legends of late twentieth-century fashion, an iconic designer whose colorful creations, including the "wrap dress," captured the modern feminist spirit. The daughter of a Holocaust survivor and wife of an Austrian nobleman, Diane von Furstenberg burst onto New York's fashion scene in 1969, and within a few years became an international sensation with her colorful wrap dress in printed...
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
As soon as Ann Cole Lowe could walk, her momma and grandma taught her to sew. When her mom died, Ann continued sewing dresses. It wasn't easy, especially when she went to design school and had to learn alone, segregated from the rest of the class. But the work she did set her spirit soaring, as evidenced in the clothes she made. Rarely credited, Ann Cole Lowe became "society's best kept secret." This beautiful picture book shines the spotlight on...
13) Coco Chanel
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Charts the rise of one of the most influential designers of the 20th century. From her humble childhood and early days as a young dressmaker's assistant, to her passionate love affair with a dashing Englishman and ultimate success as a pioneering fashion icon.
14) My journey
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
363 pages
Description
A personal, provocative memoir by the iconic designer includes candid stories about her difficult and isolated childhood, her nearly five-decade career in the fashion industry, her two marriages, her children, and her spiritual life.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
ix, 404 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Description
"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 lifetime spent caring for her seven younger siblings, she...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
239 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : facsimiles, portraits, photographs (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"One of the most influential, admired, and innovative women of our time: fashion designer, philanthropist, wife, mother, and grandmother, Diane von Furstenberg offers a book about becoming the woman she wanted to be. Diane von Furstenberg started out with a suitcase full of jersey dresses and an idea of who she wanted to be--in her words, 'the kind of woman who is independent and who doesn't rely on a man to pay her bills.' She has since become that...
20) Of Irish Blood
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels volume 1
Publisher
St Martins Pr
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
512 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
It?s 1903. Nora Kelly, twenty-four, is talented, outspoken, progressive, and climbing the ladder of opportunity, until she falls for an attractive but dangerous man who sends her running back to the Old World her family had fled. Nora takes on Paris, mixing with couturiers, artists, and "les femmes Americaines" of the Left Bank such as Gertrude Stein and Sylvia Beach. But when she stumbles into the centuries-old Coll?ge des Irlandais, a good-looking...
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