Karim Rashid
Karim Rashid is an industrial designer whose clients include Prada, Nambe, Issey Miyake, Mikasa, Shiseido, Giorgio Armani, and Yahoo, among many others. With a career that began at age nineteen, Rashid is now the creator of more than two thousand ... [... more]
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Madeleine Vionnet
 From Amazon.com: Madeleine Vionnet's greatest distinction as a designer was her discovery of the bias cut. Cutting patterns along the bias forces the fabric to cling to the body and move with it, which created her trademark look of draped, form-conscious [... more]
CDN$110.00
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Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now
Excellent fashion primer for the last 50 years of the 20th C: This book has both beautiful photographs and informative text. The only reason I took off one star is that I think more photographs from each designer should have been included. I especially [... more]
CDN$26.09
Amazon CA |
Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: A wedding and a grandmother's illness reveal fault lines in the lives of one Taipei family in Edward Yang's extraordinary film. Yi Yi is built from deceptively simple elements that together create a complex, warm, and utterly convincing [... more]
CDN$33.98
Amazon CA |
Still Life
What's in a name?: This book should be titled "Food Photography and other Commercial Assignments" or "The Sixty-dollar Disappointment" or even, "How to make Money off of things I already got paid for." "Still-Life" [... more]
CDN$125.00
Amazon CA |
Fashion a La Mode: The Pop-Up Book of Costumes and Dresses
Paper dresses to make us dream: Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave has made an amazing lifesize collection of period paper dresses which have been exhibited all over the world. Silks, brocades, taffetas and lace are recreated by painting on various [... more]
CDN$44.11
Amazon CA |
Tony Takitani
the art of melancholy: This film, minimalist in the best possible sense, is a lyrical study of isolation and loss. Tony Takitani (Issei Ogata) grows up the loner kid of a jazz-playing, loner father. Like his father, Tony masters an art, drawing, and [... more]
CDN$26.04
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Structure and Surface: Contemporary Japanese Textiles
Inspiring, Astounding, Enthralling: This is a delicious book - the fabrics are so amazing you just want to inhale them right off the page. It was actually published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Madern Art in New York, but have no [... more]
CDN$31.20
Amazon CA |
Memory on Cloth: Shibori Now
The best book that's been done about contemporary shibori: Shibori is the Japanese word for resist-dyeing. There are three shibori techniques: tie-dye (those Sixties hallucinoform tee-shirts); clamp-resist (being pressed between two boards or tied [... more]
CDN$121.95
Amazon CA |
Sister Wendy's American Collection
From Amazon.com: Sister Wendy's catholic view of art is as rare as her insightful view of Western religious painting. The work she admires is startlingly diverse, embracing Paul Revere's silver and a bodhisattva from Pakistan, an Issey Miyake metallic [... more]
CDN$49.95
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Quilt Artistry: Inspired Designs from the East
Beautiful.: Yoshiko Jinzenji has made a beautiful book showing her magnificient quilts and pieces of fabric arts. The book itself, photos, paper, printing, writing, style, is a piece of art. A book you will be happy to own, no matter if you are a quilter [... more]
CDN$52.95
Amazon CA |
A-Poc Making: Issey Miyake and Dai Fujiwara
Author: Issei Miyake Author: Dai Fujiwara Author: Mateo Kries Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 746.92092252 EAN: 9783931936266 Edition: Bilingual ISBN: 3931936260 Number Of Pages: 109 Publication Date: 2001-11 [... more]
CDN$57.30
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