The Dress Detective is the first practical guide to analyzing fashion objects, clearly demonstrating how their close analysis can enhance and enrich interdisciplinary research. This accessible book provides readers with the tools to uncover the hidden stories in garments, setting out a carefully developed research methodology specific to dress, and providing easy-to-use checklists that guide the reader through the process.

Beautifully illustrated, the book contains seven case studies of fash...

Written for fashion graduates, newbie entrepreneurs and those in entry-level positions in the industry, Blue is the New Black demystifies the process of how to make a fashion collection accessible for all levels. It's a reference guide, a buddy, and an overview of who, what and where. Fashion is a multi-billion-dollar industry.

It's not just about sketching an outfit, it's about selecting fabric, developing buttons, sourcing a factory, negotiating prices, making patterns, seeing the final lau...

Creatives, practitioners, designers, and artistic researchers are engaging in a participatory practice of collectively investigating what practising solidarity in fashion entails. This book recognises the urgency of practising more care for other humans, animals, organisms, and species, as well as the other (living) matter related to fashion, clothing, and textiles. How can we activate radical visions and imaginations of alternative, more solidary fashion systems? And how can we respect the a...

An engaging and enlightening reappraisal of cutting-edge fashion that confirms that there are no limits to the creative imagination in clothing the human form.

Ben je te zwaar? Heb je dikke onderbenen en kuiten?

Heb je een buikje? Ben je te klein?

Dit geïllustreerd boek legt uit hoe je op een eenvoudige manier slanker en groter toont.

Boordevol kledingadvies met stijltips en handige trucs, zie je hoe je jouw sterke punten naar voor brengt en je minder sterke punten camoufleert.

Omdat de principes aangetoond worden aan de hand van tekeningen zijn ze eenvoudig toe te passen door elke vrouw!

Ilse Van der Schraelen is Kleur-, Stijl- en Imagoconsulen...