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“We do what we can with fabric — but Balenciaga does anything he wants.” 

—Christian Dior

Cristóbal Balenciaga made his name in Paris in the 1940s and 1950s in the golden age of haute couture. He was hailed by Coco Chanel as “the only true couturier among us,” and his clients included Princess Grace of Monaco and the Duchess of Windsor.

This book is published to mark the inauguration of the Balenciaga Museum in Getaria, Spain, which will house a permanent collection of over one hundred pieces created by this master designer. It features an extraordinary selection of the most representative pieces from the Museum’s collection and includes four essays written by specialists on Balenciaga’s work.

Amalia Descalzo teaches Communication and Management in Fashion at the Centro Universitario Vellanueva. Miren Arzalluz is the curator and head of collections at Fundación Cristóbal Balenciaga. Pierre Arizzoli-Clémentel is the former director of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Lourdes Cerrillo is Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Valladolid. Marie-Andrée Jouve was head of the Balenciaga archives from 1980 to 2003. Lucina Llorente is a specialist in materials and technical textiles.

Cristobal Balenciaga made his name in Paris in the 1940s and 1950s in the golden age of haute couture and was hailed by Coco Chanel as the only true couturier amongst us, able to design, cut, assemble and sew a dress entirely by himself. His clients included Princess Grace of Monaco and the Duchess of Windsor. This book is published to mark the long-awaited inauguration of the Balenciaga Museum in Getaria, Guipuzcoa, Spain, which will house a permanent collection of over 100 pieces created by the master designer. Four introductory articles by Balenciaga experts present new research and analysis of the designers work and assess his legacy, but at the heart of the book is a catalogue of the museums outstanding collection in over 500 wonderful illustrations. This beautiful book will be essential reading for both designers and anyone interested in Balenciaga's life and work.

More than three decades after his death, the Spanish couturier Cristobal Balenciaga (1895-1972) has become a legendary figure in the history of 20th-century fashion. This book examines Balenciaga`s design and business practice, placing him in the context of the time and country in which he learnt his trade and the international fashion scene.

Towards the end of her life, major exhibitions in London and Vienna brought Viennese artist Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (1906-1996) wide acclaim. This book invites Motesiczky`s work and situates the artist in the troubled history of her times. It tells the story of Motesiczky`s life. In the years following World War II, Cristobal Balenciaga emerged as a designer to be reckoned with in the world of haute couture. This illustrated book presents nearly 70 Balenciaga creations for day and evening, along with 25 hats, from the archives of the Texas Fashion Collection of the University of North Texas.

This was the profession of faith of the man whom Dior called ‘the master of us all’. Strict, even ascetic, Balenciaga was, with Chanel, Dior and Schiaparelli, one of the icons of the golden age of haute couture. The care he took with a garment’s construction, the perfection of his cut, his choice of materials, textures and colours, including an intense black, gave his vision of fashion and refinement a singular distinction, that became the fashion house’s famous signature.

Having presented his last collection in February 1968, Balenciaga decided to close his salons and to return to live in the country of his birth, Spain. Thirty years later, Nicolas Ghesquière re-established the artistic direction of the house, giving the venture – once thought to be finished – a new lease of life. Universally acclaimed for his freshness of vision, sobriety and a rigour that recalls that of his predecessor, Ghesquière is considered one of the most important creative personalities at work today.

Balenciaga Paris pays homage to this unique fashion enterprise, covering both stellar periods of the house – a span of some 75 years.

With a fascinating collection of photographs, sketches, illustrations and press comments, assembled by Pamela Golbin, curator at the Musée de la Mode et du Textile, the book presents a precise chronology and a detailed account of this two-part journey.

Designed by Fabien Baron, art director of Vogue, and featuring work by some of the finest photographers of our time, including Irving Penn, this publication provides not only the compelling history of one of Paris’s greatest fashion houses, but also constitutes a milestone of book design in its own right.

This innovative book presents dynamic and interpretive photographs of British ballgowns spanning 60 years and includes designs by Alexander McQueen, Bellville Sassoon, Bill Gibb, Erdem, Gareth Pugh, Stella McCartney and Zandra Rhodes. The specially commissioned photographs, by fashion photographer David Hughes, are supplemented by essays exploring the ballgown as a particularly British garment, with designers, clients and occasions unique to Britain. The social season of debutante parties and private balls, weddings and charity events have long provided Britain's fashion designers with opportunities to design elaborate, tour de force eveningwear. In more recent years the ballroom has been replaced by the red carpet. Though the context has changed, the ballgown remains a staple in many designers' collections and continues to serve as an expression of status, protocol and taste, while simultaneously embodying elements of drama and fantasy.
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This title presents the nitty-gritty of basic patternmaking. Off-the-peg too bland or doesn't fit? Made-to-measure too expensive? Then why not do it yourself? This volume explains the nitty-gritty of basic patternmaking, laying the essential foundations for anyone taking their first steps in tailoring and dressmaking. Four fundamental garments - skirt, dress, jacket and coat - are used to explain patterns step by step, with clear sequences of photographs and descriptions. Gradually, the reader is enabled to tackle ever-increasing complexity in patternmaking, moving toward such activities as customizing, the creative adaptation of basic models, and deriving patterns from pictures.

For 500 years, the world's greatest makers of costume jewelry have hidden, anonymous, in the heart of Europe: Gablonz, Bohemia. This groundbreaking, beautiful book exposes the jewels, craftsmanship, technological development, and history of Bohemia. Almost 400 gorgeous color photographs illustrate the area's artistry, its most significant designers and manufacturers and their contributions to the art of jewelry, button, and bead making. Bohemian glass dynasties lasted for centuries, until the middle of the 20th century, when the entire community of German-stock craftsmen was expelled from the area in the turbulence of World War II. Though Gablonz will forever feel the loss of these great craftsmen, their artistry has been meticulously researched and documented by Sibylle Jargstorf for this book.

Beads have been a fascinating method for embellishing fashion since ancient cultures sought personal adornment. The twentieth century has seen some of the most innovative, colorful, and wonderful uses for beading as an enhancement in apparel, and, recently, beads have come into fashion as never before. Both vintage and recent costume are desirable as much, if not more, for their beading as for the overall design. This lavishly illustrated book includes chapters on the history, techniques, preservation, and collecting of beads in the world of fashion. With 534 beautiful color photos, a detailed text, captions, value guide, index, and bibliography, it is the first to cover both vintage and recent costume and accessories in one volume. With clothing by designers, ranging from Fortuny and Mackie to unknowns, this volume will delight anyone in the field of fashion.

Enter the world of high fashion with the creative legend who designed and directed the greatest spectacles in fashion with hundreds of unpublished behind-the-scenes images.

The New York Times describes Alexandre de Betak as 'the Fellini of fashion and the Cecil B. DeMille of the runways'. For 25 years, Betak has produced many of the fashion world's most memorable shows and events for brands as diverse as Dior and Victoria's Secret. This stunning, lavishly produced volume celebrates his career via set and show photography, as well as hundreds of unpublished behind-the-scenes images. Structured thematically to bring readers inside Betak's creative process, the book provides unrivalled insight into how fashion becomes art as well as commerce.

About the Authors:

From his offices in New York, Paris, and Shanghai, Alexandre de Betak has produced over 1,000 runway shows, installations, events, and exhibits for clients such as Dior, Hussein Chalayan, Rodarte, Raf Simons for Calvin Klein, Michael Kors, Berluti, H&M, and Victoria's Secret, including its webcast that famously 'broke' the internet in 2000.

Sally Singer is the digital creative director of Vogue.com and the former features director of Vogue US. She was formerly an editor at British Vogue and the London Review of Books.

- A monograph marking Betak's 25 years at the helm of fashion-show culture and presentation
- Includes Betak's intricate staging designs for clients as wide-ranging as Dior, Michael Kors, Victoria's Secret, Viktor & Rolf, and Raf Simons for Calvin Klein
- Organized by the four key components of a fashion event - Venue, Set, Lighting, and Performance
- Features an in-depth round-table discussion with Betak, the Rodarte fashion designers Laura and Kate Mulleavy, and art-world figure Jeffrey Deitch about Betak's work and the art of presenting fashion in the 21st century

The bestselling visual bible for fashion illustrators and graphic designers now in a mini edition. It provides an unprecedented variety of approaches for illustrating fashion with hundreds of stunning images. the work ranges from pencil drawing and use of stitch-through watercolour, oils, collage and the latest digital techniques. The book covers Womenswear, Menswear, Youth culture, Children, Sport, Accessories and Beauty. Illustrators from all over the world show a range of techniques and styles. With illustrators from Singapore to Italy, America to New Zealand, it is the ultimate resource for fashion expression.

About the Author:

Martin Dawber is an internationally acclaimed author on contemporary fashion, style and image. A graduate of the prestigious Royal College of Art, he was the Principal Lecturer in Fashion at John Moores University for over 30 years and continues to be globally in demand as a recognised authority on fashion and illustration. He is the best-selling author of New Fashion Illustration, New Fashion Prints and Big Book of Fashion Illustration.

In the fickle world of fashion, little is certain except the sure knowledge that fashions come and go, and today’s unfashionable styles are likely to be back in vogue tomorrow.

Bikinis, Bell-bottoms and Little Black Dresses chronicles the most influential, exciting and shocking items of clothing of the last 100 years. The trench coat, the trainer and the miniskirt, to name only three, have all changed the way we think about our dress.

Fashion journalist Kate Mulvey charts the evolution of 70 key garments, investigating how their individual stories have helped to shape the course of fashion history. Each entry traces the origins of an unforgettable item of clothing and explores the moment it first made an impact on the world fashion stage, as well as the garments that developed out of it, the personalities who wore it, and its continuing popularity today.

With illustrations sourced from fashion features, catwalk shots, advertisements and film stills, Bikinis, Bell-bottoms and Little Black Dresses is an entertaining, stylish overview of modern dress that will thrill fashionistas everywhere.

• A lively look at the history of modern fashion through 70 key items of clothing
• Includes concise entries on such iconic garments and shoes as blue jeans, the corset, the little black dress and the stiletto heel
• A fun yet informative gift book that will delight all fashion fans

If you could have only one dress, wouldn't you make it a black one?

Glamorous or modest, seductive or practical, chic and versatile, elegant, powerful, modern, and never out of style, the black dress has been the foundation of a woman's wardrobe for centuries. The allure of the black dress has captured the imagination of generations of couturiers and artists and served as the signature of society's most enviably dressed women.

The Black Dress is a lush visual celebration of this fashion classic. With an essay and images selected by Dr. Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, this volume features page after uniquely designed page of some of the most compelling dresses in the history of fashion. The diverse imagery includes fine art, runway shots and design sketches, stills from classic films and vintage fashion plates, and, above all, gorgeous evocations of the black dress from the world's greatest designers, illustrators, and photographers. These include paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edouard Manet, and John Signer Sargent; illustrations by Georges Barbier and Ruben Toledo; and iconic images of movie goddesses such as Audrey Hepburn and Rita Hayworth.

The world's foremost fashion designers, from Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Yohji Yamamoto to Boudicca, are featured in full color throughout, their designs accompanied by quotes on black from writers, artists and fashion personalities. Extended captions at the back of the book provide details one ach dress and its place in fashion history.

The most popular 1940s styles, from couture to everyday workclothes, ensembles, sportswear, lingerie, and evening dresses, plus toys, needlework, and gifts, are presented here in 550 color photographs of pattern envelopes from companies like Advance, Butterick, Hollywood, McCall, Simplicity, Vogue, and others.

A wide array of pattern-related items is presented, including publications and advertising, display dolls, tools, and various forms of packaging. The pattern envelope illustrations are wonderful period drawings of '40s fashions.

All who enjoy these great styles will find Blueprints of Fashion to be a refreshing approach and an important first book on this growing field of interest.

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Його дизайни привернули увагу всесвітньо відомого перукаря Жана Луї Давида, який запропонував йому можливість поїхати до Парижа та відточити свою майстерність; Через чотири роки Recine повернувся до Нью-Йорка, озброївшись портфоліо інноваційних стилів для найкращих фотографів і журналів. Сьогодні Ресін є легендою серед знаменитостей, які працювали з Гвінет Пелтроу, Шарліз Терон, Наомі Воттс, Анджеліною Джолі, Кетрін Зета-Джонс, Кейт Хадсон, Рене Зеллвегер, Умою Турман, Ніколь Кідман і Тільдою Суінтон. Його таланти навіть повернули його у світ образотворчого мистецтва завдяки його широкій співпраці з Ванессою Бікрофт.

Alchemy of Beauty збирає оригінальні твори мистецтва Речіна, від фотографій, ескізів, колажів і картин до раніше опублікованих і неопублікованих редакційних зображень його незвичайних скульптур і головних уборів. Художнє керівництво томом — Фаб’єн Барон.