The Cool Factor by Andrea Linett
$55.00 NZD
Category: Fashion & Design
"An excellent idea for a book. . . . Next time I spend more than $40 on an article of clothing, I'll run it by Linett first."--The New York Times Book Review In a culture where trends are born and die every minute, maintaining style and effortlessness at every age requires that little extra something-- ...Show more
Three Birds Renovations: 400+ renovation and styling secrets revealed by Bonnie Hindmarsh, Erin Cayless, Lana Taylor
$45.00 NZD
Category: Fashion & Design | Reading Level: 6 Craft
Australia's most fabulous renovators reveal their secrets! The Three Birds are best friends and busy mums who ditched their corporate careers to renovate houses, now with massive instagram and youtube followings for their design and reno techniques.When best friends Erin, Bonnie and Lana ditched ...Show more
Shoes by Linda O'Keefe
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fashion & Design | Reading Level: very good
Obsessed. Vivier, Blahnik and Westwood. Two-foot-high wooden chopines of the 15th century and their resurgence as the platform shoes of the '60s and '70s. The paradox of high heels. Uppers of tulle, brocade, rhinestone, glass, fish scales and feathers. The Chanel toe, Jackie O's pump, Marilyn's stiletto ...Show more
Cotton by Beverly Lemire
$59.99 NZD
Category: Fashion & Design | Series: Textiles That Changed the World
This book explores the fascinating history and present-day practices associated with cotton. This is a story of commercial and cultural enterprise, of the ties and tensions between East and West, of technological and industrial revolution, social modernization, colonialism and slavery. Cotton's history ...Show more
Ballets Russes Style: Diaghilev's Dancers and Paris Fashion by Mary E. Davis
$59.99 NZD
Category: Fashion & Design
In the decades between its debut performance in Paris in 1909 and the death of impresario Sergei Diaghilev in 1929, the Ballets Russes was an unrivalled sensation not only in France but in London, New York and the other cities it toured. Attention has often been centred on the links between Diaghilev's ...Show more
Harris Tweed: From Land to Street by Lara Platman
$83.99 NZD
Category: Fashion & Design
Harris Tweed is a unique woollen textile that has been hand-woven by islanders off the west coast of Scotland for generations. Worn worldwide, it is cherished both for the clothing made from it and as a fascinating traditional craft. Lara Platman spent a year with the farmers, mill workers, weavers, tai ...Show more
Vogue on Ralph Lauren by Kathleen Baird-Murray
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fashion & Design | Series: Vogue on Designers
Ralph Lauren's designs vividly embody the American Dream and he has risen to become his country's foremost fashion designer. His visionary ability has created a multi-billion-dollar brand, still very successful almost 50 years on. His genius lies in his innate skill for interpreting key cultural element ...Show more
The World's Most Influential Fashion Designers: Hidden Connections and Lasting Legacies of Fashion's Iconic Creators by Noel Palomo-Lovinski
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fashion & Design
This handsomely illustrated volume examines fifty of the most influential fashion designers of the past 100 years. Each designer's most significant creations are illustrated and discussed in light of how they survived the test of time, and then went on to influence fashion to the present day. The author ...Show more
Esquire How to Be a Man: A Handbook of Advice, Inspiration, and Occasional Drinking by The Editors of Esquire Magazine
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fashion & Design
Where other than in "Esquire" would a man learn how to make the perfect Manhattan AND get a guide to nose-hair maintenance? In this age of manscaping, Instagramming everything you had for dinner, and parents taking kids to bars, "Esquire" serves up serious advice in engagingly tongue-in-cheek style on h ...Show more
The Perfume Bible by Josephine Fairley
$59.99 NZD
Category: Fashion & Design
In this lavishly illustrated, comprehensive guide to scent, beauty experts Josephine Fairley and Lorna McKay bring together everything you need to know about perfume, including guidance on which 'scent family' you belong to, the different strengths of perfume, the art of shopping for fragrance, 100 perf ...Show more
Mod A Very British Style by Richard Weight
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fashion & Design
Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited 'faces'. The Italianistas. The scooter-riding, all-night-dancing instigators of what became, from its myriad sources, a very British phenomenon. Mod began life as the quintessential working-class movement of a newly affluent nation - a uniquely British amalgam of ...Show more
My Paris Dream by Kate Betts
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fashion & Design
When Kate Betts graduated from Princeton, she was desperate to stand on her own two feet and discover who she really was.Kate decided to take a leap of faith and move to Paris where she would throw herself into Parisian culture, master French and a find a job that would give her a reason to stay.After a ...Show more