As a costume designer here a curated list of fashion books: from its history to how to navigate consciously in the industry
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Libri sulla moda, dalla sua storia a come navigare nell'industria oggi
Interviste della Fallaci ai Grandi maestri della moda, per esempio Dior, Capucci, Chanel…
Processo alla minigonna: Da Chanel a Quant
Viaggio affascinante attraverso gli ultimi tre secoli di moda con impeccabili fotografie
La moda dal XVIII al XX secolo - KCI
Da Azzedine Alaïa, Cristóbal Balenciaga e Coco Chanel a Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent e Vivienne Westwood, più di un secolo di grandi della moda sono celebrati in questa nuova edizione
Stilisti di moda A–Z, 40th Ed.
Vogue Italia celebra i suoi 60 anni con questo libro che ripercorre le tappe fondamentali della rivista, tra immagini d'archivio, racconti e approfondimenti.
Vogue il sogno. Ediz. a colori
Viaggio attraverso la produzione grafica della maschera: incisioni, affiches, figurine, illustrazioni da periodici e da volumi, realizzati tra il Cinquecento e il Novecento, storia per immagini della Commedia dell'arte e delle maschere in genere
Maschere: Commedia dell'arte Personaggi e Costumi
Pubblicato nel 1969, riflessioni filosofiche sulla moda.
Moda. Un gioco seduttivo - Eugen Fink
Breve ma molto accurato.
La moda - Georg Simmel
Bellissime illustrazioni, perla da avere.
ERTE' (Romain de Tirtoff) con ricordi
Acute osservazioni sui significati sociali della moda e del costume
Il senso della moda, Roland Barthes. Giulio Einaudi editore - Piccola ...
International
All about fashion: from its history to how to navigate consciously in the industry
Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet’s Le Costume historique was in its day the most wide-ranging and incisive study of clothing ever attempted. This TASCHEN reprint presents Racinet’s exquisitely precise color illust...
Auguste Racinet: The Costume History
Published in 1969, a philosophical view on fashion.
Fashion: Seductive Play
The illustrations are wonderful, the development of fashion styles and figure modification, the acknowledgment of different lifestyles: all are presented with clarity and explanations.
The Corset: A Cultural History: Valerie Steele
From Azzedine Alaïa, Cristóbal Balenciaga, and Coco Chanel to Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, and Vivienne Westwood, more than a century’s worth of fashion greats from the permanent collection of The Museum at FIT in NYC.
We are all dressed. But how often do we pause to think about the place of our clothes in our lives? What unconscious thoughts do we express when we dress every day?
Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes: Bari, Shahidha
Take a trip through the last three centuries of trend. This spectacular collection from the Kyoto Costume Institute, one of the world's most extensive clothing collections, features the outerwear, underwear, footwear, and accessories that have define...
Fashion History 18th to 20th Century
An extensive textile dictionary that covers all essential fabric knowledge from different types of textile, fabric materials to finishing options, that everyone should know.
Textilepedia: Complete Fabric Guide
A must have visual fashion dictionary covering all the technical terms from style to material to production with illustrations and infographics.
Fashionpedia: Visual Dictionary of Fashion
A smart essays of the fashion industry
Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion New Look to Millennial Pink
New York Times Bestseller this memoir by the legendary creative director at Vogue captures the fashion world from the inside out, in its most glamorous and most cutthroat moments.
The Chiffon Trenches: Sunday Times Bestseller
Fashionopolis is the definitive book on the cost of fast fashion, and a blueprint for how we get to a more sustainable future.
Fashionopolis: Price of Fast Fashion & Future
Interested in reshaping the future through sustainability and responsible innovation?