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Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From Coco Chanel to Christian Dior and from Giorgio Armani to Vivienne Westwood, 'Icons of Culture: Fashion' offers a rich and comprehensive introduction to the lives and accomplishments of 50 key individuals who dominated the fashion industry from the late nineteenth century to the present day..."--Jacket.
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Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel comes the gripping story of a woman who loses everything--her husband, her home, her sense of self and safety, and her freedom. Sydney Wells's perfect life with her wealthy, devoted husband vanishes when he dies suddenly in an accident. Widowed at forty-nine, she discovers he has failed to include her in his will. With Andrew's vicious daughters in control of his estate, and no home or money,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Combining the propulsive narrative drive of The Firm with the psychological complexity of The Silent Patient, a gripping and original thriller about two professional women-colleagues at an international fashion conglomerate-who enter an elevator together . . . but only one is alive when they reach the ground floor.
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (68 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Raven is stuck in Boston, where she has a vision that something bad will happen to Cody. Maddie tries to get London to wear Raven's dress, but London is too stuck up, until pop star Hannah Montana arrives at the Tipton and wants to wear the dress.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
An inspiring picture book biography about the amazing Ann Lowe-the first nationally-known African American fashion designer. A careful snip, a delicate fold. Fabric the color of new petals. Skirts that flare like upside-down blossoms. A garden bursts into bloom! There is no "good enough." For Ann, only the best will do. Award-winning author Kate Messner, costume historian Margaret E. Powell, and fashion designer and illustrator Erin Robinson tell...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1973, fashion icon Astrid Bricard disappeared at the legendary Versailles designer show-down. All that remained was a scrap of fabric...and a family unraveled. Everyone remembers her daringly short, silver lamé dress. An iconic photo capturing an electric moment, where emerging American designer Astrid Bricard is young, uninhibited, and on the cusp of fashion and feminism's changing landscape. She and fellow designer Hawk Jones are all over Vogue...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
368 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel comes the gripping story of a woman who loses everything--her husband, her home, her sense of self and safety, and her freedom. Sydney Wells's perfect life with her wealthy, devoted husband vanishes when he dies suddenly in an accident. Widowed at forty-nine, she discovers he has failed to include her in his will. With Andrew's vicious daughters in control of his estate, and no home or money,...
9) McQueen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (111 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A personal look at the extraordinary life, career and artistry of Alexander McQueen. Through exclusive interviews with his closest friends and family, recovered archives, exquisite visuals and music, “McQueen” is an authentic celebration and thrilling portrait of an inspired yet tortured fashion visionary. Nominated for Outstanding British Film of the Year and Best Documentary at the **BAFTA Awards.** Nominated for Best Documentary at the **Hot...
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English
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"Maya Jackson has worked for Laura Whitcomb, Inc, a renowned New York City bridal gown brand for years and dreams of becoming Head Designer. She has the talent, she just needs a chance to showcase her unique style. Due to an illness, she's always prioritized her career over her personal life until Maya's father fractures his hip and she returns to Charleston, SC. While home for only a few months, she's thrilled to find an opportunity at the local...
11) Naturally Tan
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
267 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this heartfelt, funny, and touching memoir, one of the stars of Netflix's Emmy Award-winning smash-hit Queer Eye reveals how an Englishman raised in a traditionally religious home became a fashion icon - and the first openly gay, South Asian man on television - simply by being Naturally Tan."--Amazon.com.
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Language
English
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"High tea and high fashion turn deadly in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Tea shop entrepreneur Theodosia Browning has been tapped to host a fancy Limon Tea in a genuine lemon orchard as a rousing kickoff to Charleston Fashion Week. But as fairy lights twinkle and the scent of lemon wafts among the tea tables, the deadly murder of a fashion designer puts the squeeze on things. As the lemon curd begins to sour, the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
141 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"A collection of witty and sometimes wry quotes, inspiring edicts, and philosophies about fashion and style by celebrated fashion designers—from Coco Chanel to Tom Ford—as told to acclaimed fashion journalist Marylou Luther.
In her seventy-year career as a fashion journalist, newspaper columnist, and author, Marylou Luther has interviewed the most iconic figures in the fashion world who open up and spill the proverbial fashion “dirt” to Luther.
In...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In acclaimed director Edgar Wright's psychological thriller, Eloise, an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Signing up for a reality show with a $100,000 prize, wedding gown designer Andie Dresser marries a stranger--sight unseen--only to discover her new husband is the man who left her 10 years ago, and with the cameras rolling, finds their feelings for each other growing under the spotlight"--
16) Volver a vivir
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
"Sydney disfruta de una vida id?ilica con su marido Andrew en una casa maravillosa, rodeados de familia y buenos amigos. Sin embargo, su felicidad se esfuma de repente cuando ?el muere en un accidente y ella, con cuarenta y nueve a?nos y tras una d?ecada sin trabajar, se ve de pronto viuda, sin casa y sin dinero. Aunque debe empezar de cero otra vez, un golpe de suerte permite a Sydney retomar su antigua profesi?on de dise?nadora. Pero, ingenua y...
17) If the shoe fits
Author
Series
Meant to be volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
If the shoe doesn't fit, maybe it's time to design your own. Cindy loves shoes. A well-placed bow or a chic stacked heel is her form of self-expression. As a fashion-obsessed plus-size woman, she can never find designer clothes that work on her body, but a special pair of shoes always fits just right. With a shiny new design degree but no job in sight, Cindy moves back in with her stepmother, Erica Tremaine, the executive producer of the world's biggest...
18) Palazzo: a novel
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A captivating new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of America's favorite storytellers"--
19) The dressmaker
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
The Dressmaker tells the story of the beautiful and talented Tilly Dunnage. After years working as a dressmaker in exclusive Parisian fashion houses, Tilly returns home to a town in the Australian outback to reconcile with her eccentric mother Molly. She also falls in love with the pure-hearted Teddy, and armed with her sewing machine and haute couture style, Tilly transforms the women of the town, exacting sweet revenge on those who did her wrong....
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Series
Language
English
Description
Running a successful fashion empire in Paris and New York that hides the pain of a failed marriage, Timmie O endures a sequence of meaningless relationships before a surprise bout of appendicitis places her under the care of alluring but married French doctor, Jean-Charles Vernier.
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