Viktor & Rolf - Fairy Tales by Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren

$16.00 NZD

Category: Fashion | Reading Level: very good

Enter the enchanting world of make-believe in Fairy Tales, the first work of fiction by Dutch fashion designers Viktor and Rolf. Beautifully illustrated by the designers themselves, their surreal fairytales feature a lonely disco hedgehog, a magical golden dress, and a little girl with bright red hair, as well as many other memorable characters. This sumptuous book is essential reading for style-conscious babies, fashionistas, and anyone with a hankering for some luxurious escapism. ...Show more

(Un)fashion by Tibor + Maira Kalman

$20.00 NZD

Category: Fashion | Reading Level: very good

A fascinating collection of photographs illustrating dress and fashion around the world, including sections on optics, masks, work, play, footwear and headgear.

Fifty Years of Fashion New Look to Now by Valerie Steele

$20.00 NZD

Category: Fashion | Reading Level: very good

Fashion Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones & Anonymous

$8.00 NZD

Category: Fashion | Reading Level: very good

What is fashion? What is fashionable? Who decides what is in? What is out? Why is it green one year, and blue the next? Why is one little black dress worth three thousand pounds and another thirty quid? Is the catwalk that catty? Is everyone high on drugs and full of champagne? What makes a supermodel s o super? And a designer too hot to touch? Who is making the money? Who owns who? Who hates who? And who's in each other's pocket?Following in the glamorous footsteps of Hotel Babylon and Air Babylon, Fashion Babylon will get under the well-cut skin of the fashion industry. Using a world renowned source, Fashion Babylon will take you through six months in a designer's life. Starting at the end of one catwalk show, it will explain how a collection is put together - from the rail of found objects, to how it gets on to the catwalk, into the shops and onto the covers of a magazine. It will tell you who goes to the shows, where they sit and whose backside one needs to kiss to get there. First published 2006. ...Show more

Kate Moss The Complete Picture by Laura Collins

$14.00 NZD

Category: Fashion | Reading Level: very good

This is an insightful and fascinating biography of fashion icon Kate Moss.She has amassed a fortune, defined and defied fashion mores and proved wrong those who predicted her downfall. Her image is everywhere: compelling and enigmatic. On the sunny April evening that she launched her own range for TopSh op, thousands seethed into Oxford Street - teenage girls, middle-aged women and men of all ages. But though she has become one of the most recognized women in the world, she remains the least understood. By her own admission, 'The more visible they make me, the less visible I become.'From her discovery at the age of fourteen, when her waif-life look was considered 'uncommercial', to finding international fame as a supermodel and her position today as an arbiter of fashion, 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. ...Show more

How to Break up with Fast Fashion - A Guilt-Free Guide to Changing the Way You Shop - for Good by Lauren Bravo

$12.00 NZD

Category: Fashion | Reading Level: near fine

You probably know the statistics: global clothing production has roughly doubled in just 15 years, and every year an estimated 300,000 tonnes of used clothing ends up in UK landfill. Fast fashion is the ultimate toxic relationship. It's bad news for the planet, our brains and our bank balances. We can't go on like this; our shopping habits need an overhaul. Journalist Lauren Bravo loves clothes more than anything, but she's called time on her affair with fast fashion in search of a slower, saner way of dressing. In this book, she'll help you do the same. How To Break Up With Fast Fashion will help you to change your mindset, fall back in love with your wardrobe and embrace more sustainable ways of shopping - from the clothes swap to the charity shop. Full of refreshing honesty and realistic advice, Lauren will inspire you to repair, recycle and give your unloved items a new lease of life without sacrificing your style. Because fashion belongs to everyone, but no outfit should cost us the earth. ...Show more

Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers by Nicholas Smith

$12.00 NZD

Category: Fashion | Reading Level: very good

Shoegasm: An Explosion of Cutting-edge Design by Clare Anthony

$18.00 NZD

Category: Fashion | Reading Level: very good

A fabulous collection of the most extravagant and outrageous shoes seen on fashionable women today - from the catwalk to the high street. With an introduction from Manolo Blahnik. For centuries, women's shoes have been at the forefront of high fashion. Sandals made of solid gold were found in the royal tombs of ancient Egypt, while in 15th century Venice, women tottered around in chopines with platforms up to a foot high. In China, bound feet were adorned with delicately embroidered and brightly coloured golden lotus shoes. Shoegasm explores the boundless creativity still at work in shoe design today. From Kobi Levi's 'double boots' created exclusively for Lady Gaga to the radical creations of bridge architect Julian Hakes, this is a showcase of the most spectacular shoes from Alexander McQueen to Vivienne Westwood and beyond. This lavishly illustrated book investigates the most extravagant and exciting examples of this truly wearable art. ...Show more

Green is the New Black: How to Change the World with Style by Tamsin Blanchard

$12.00 NZD

Category: Fashion | Reading Level: good

For girls who care about global warming, and next season's hot looks, "Green is the New Black" is a must-have accessory. Does our shopping addiction contribute to climate change? What's so special about organic cotton? Who are the real fashion victims behind the GBP3 jeans? From the truth about fast fas hion to the best biodegradable shoes, from guilt-free spending sprees to the joys of swishing parties, Tamsin Blanchard is your guide to all things fair trade and fabulous. ...Show more

Fashion 150 years. Couturiers, Desgners, Labels by Charlotte Seeling

$165.00 NZD

Category: Fashion | Reading Level: very good

Fashion - that means glamour, creativity and always the expression of a certain attitude toward life. This book is devoted to the legendary world of fashion from its origins in the nineteenth century until our own time. Which social, historical and cultural developments coalesced to allow fashion to bec ome what it is today? Which designers had especially significant impact on their fashion eras, and what did their creations look like? Informative chapters that introduce each era coupled with extensive portraits of the groundbreaking fashion icons and countless expressive photographs work together to form a comprehensive portrayal of the rapid development that took fashion from the liberation of women from the corset all the way to the creations of modern designers. " ...Show more

War Paint: Elizabeth Arden and Helene Rubenstein: Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry by Lindy Woodhead

$12.00 NZD

Category: Fashion | Reading Level: very good

War Paint is the story of two remarkable women - Miss Elizabeth Arden and Madame Helena Rubinstein. Between them they left an extraordinary legacy which touches the lives of virtually all women today: the creation of the modern cosmetics and beauty industry.War Paint will trace the humble beginnings of both Arden and Rubinstein and examine the forces and influences that drove them. The book will also look at the period in which they lived, without which their phenomenal achievement cannot be truly appreciated.The similarities between the two are intriguing: dedicated to beauty, neither were great beauties themselves. They were both diminutive in size, if not in the size of their ego. They were both born into genteel poverty and were motivated by money and the creation of their businesses, to the exclusion of almost everything else. They were both avid social climbers and desperately thrifty. They also hated each other.This is the story of an industry, of a social movement and of a great rivalry. Gripping, glamorous and totally absorbing, this is social history at its best.Author Information: Lindy Woodhead has worked in fashion PR for more than thirty years. She worked in the music business before establishing her own PR agency in 1974. She has been on the board of Harvey Nichols and worked in television and advertising. She is married and lives in London.Reviews: 'Lindy Woodhead's riveting and thoroughly researched biography of Rubinstein and Arden, is a work of chutzpah in its own right . . . the definitive biography of women and their relationships to their faces in the twentieth century' GUARDIAN'Lindy Woodhead, who has a nice line in neatly turned phrases and in well-aimed sideswipes herself, has written about these two slap-dragons with humorous sensitivity and sympathy' LITERARY REVIEW'what a relief it is to read so detailed, well researched and competent a book. . . Woodhead knows her stuff and takes it seriously' Sunday Times ...Show more

Worth To Dior 20Th Century Fashion From The National Gallery Of Victoria by Healy, Robyn

$35.00 NZD

Category: Fashion | Reading Level: Very Good