Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Fashion of the 70s (Icon)

  • ISBN13: 9783836514323
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No more trekking around the shops baffled by too much choice, this guide to the UK's top fashion shops and design talent reviews the most cutting-edge fashion retailers and profiles up-and-coming young designers to keep you ahead of the game. The shops reviewed in this guide have been selected on the basis of exceptional service, superior interiors, specialist stock and exquisite ambience, and, through the use of a system of icons their products are easily identifiable. Also included are interviews with international gurus and trend dictators .
Learn how to draw posed figures for fashion illustration

This comprehensive reference provides hands-on techniques for created posed figures for fa! shion illustration. The first section illustrates various examples of nude and semi-nude poses (male and female). Later chapters illustrate the same poses wearing sportswear, sleepwear, dresses, suits, trousers, and casual and evening wear. The poses in each chapter are organized to show a progression including seated model (crossed legs, straight legs, seated on chair, seated on the floor); standing model (frontal view, three-quarter view, side-view from the back with crossed legs and straight legs); and moving model (running, walking, dancing). Each chapter begins with an introduction which is followed by images with detailed explanatory captions. With a focus on shape and form, the content covers marker and pencil techniques for a complete range of illustrated poses.

The time when "fashion" was defined by French designers whose clothes could be afforded only by elite has ended. Now designers take their cues from mainstream consumers and creativity is channeled m! ore into mass-marketing clothes than into designing them. Inde! ed, one need look no further than the Gap to see proof of this. In The End of Fashion, Wall Street Journal, reporter Teri Agins astutely explores this seminal change, laying bare all aspects of the fashion industry from manufacturing, retailing, anmd licensing to image making and financing. Here as well are fascinating insider vignettes that show Donna Karan fighting with financiers,the rivalry between Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger, and the commitment to haute conture that sent Isaac Mizrahi's business spiraling.

From hippie to disco to punk, this look book relives 1970s fashion via clothing advertisements from the decade. In between its covers youll find bell-bottoms and feathered hair mingling with platform shoes, Diane Von Furstenberg wrap dresses and endless amounts of polyester (what were they thinking?).

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