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]
Harper Collins |
Ready to Wear (Widescreen)
 Chronique amazon.fr: Autant le dire d'emblée, cette satire du monde de la mode signée Robert Altman, très attendue, est une déception. La structure narrative, construite à la manière de Nashville, comme un [... more]
CDN$8.99
Amazon CA |
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
Amazon CA |
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
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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
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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 |
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
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
Amazon CA |
Issey Miyake
MORE THAN CLOTHES!: There is very little in print about Issey Miyake and, as a devotee of most Japanese designers, "Issey Miyake: Making Things" for me is an absolute must! This book is promoting an exhibition held in Paris in 1998-99 but it is [... more]
CDN$69.95
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