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Hunks & Heroes: Four Decades of Fashion at GQA celebration of men's style and how it's evolved--from the ever stylish GQ creative director at large--Jim Moore. GQ is revered globally as the ultimate style guide for modern men, and Hunks and Heroes is an epic journey into the world of men's style...
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Achille SalvagniA meticulously curated glimpse at the career of a design-world superstar. Stylistically, Salvagni is an avowed modernist; his work displays an elegant economy of means that is utterly contemporary, writes Pilar Viladas. Yes, his work consistently bears the weight of history--not in overt references,...
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On Style: Inspiration and Advice from the New Generation of Interior DesignOn Style brings together today's top up-and-coming interior designers who together reflect the future of decorating, illustrated with never-before-published photos of each designer's work. The world is changing, and interior design is changing along with it. Today's designers are presenting a fresh take on...
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The Splendor of St. Petersburg: Art & Life in Late Imperial Palaces of RussiaAn unprecedented tour of the most stunning and architecturally significant palatial homes of Russia's nobility, many not previously photographed and inaccessible to visitors. This luxurious presentation takes the reader on a breathtaking tour through the most magnificent mansions in St. Petersburg, Russia, built by...
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Denim: Street Style, Vintage, ObsessionThis street-style bible takes a chic and sexy look at the aesthetic power of blue jeans, featuring stylish women around the world wearing their favorite denim in their own unique way.Denim's sexiness, whether it is being dressed up or dressed down, has made it...
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100 BuildingsAn accessible primer to the most important architectural touchstones of our time by today's leading architects and teachers of architecture. For this volume, over forty internationally renowned architects and educators--from Peter Eisenman and the late Zaha Hadid to Rafael Moneo and Cesar Pelli--were asked...
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Olympia Le-Tan: The Story of O.L.T.The first book on the eclectic and whimsical work of fashion designer Olympia Le-Tan. An admitted bookworm, designer Olympia Le-Tan is best known for creating one-of-a-kind handbags resembling literary classics such as Catcher in the Rye, Doctor Zhivago, and For Whom the Bell Tolls....
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Gio_graphy: Fun in the Wild World of FashionA witty guide to living the glam the life from an international style star, featuring hilarious anecdotes, fashion advice, and much more. Dubbed a "cyber icon" and "fashion heroine" by the New York Times, Italian fashion editor and stylist Giovanna Battaglia is known for...
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Tartan: Romancing the PlaidWilliam "Braveheart" Wallace did battle in it. Queen Victoria decked Balmoral in it. Madonna donned it to strut around the stage. Tartan, the beloved symbol of kin, clan and nation to the Scots, has evolved into the one of the world's favorite fabrics. Serving...
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Vidal Sassoon: How One Man Changed the World with a Pair of ScissorsA captivating look at the career of social and style revolutionary Vidal Sassoon. A visionary hairstylist who became a household name, Vidal Sassoon was an instrument of change during the cultural shifts of the 1960s. Inspired by Bauhaus architecture, Sassoon's career took off with...
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Calligraphy: A Course in Hand LetteringFor anyone who's ever been wowed by the writing on a wedding invitation rather than the reception...for anyone who's ever studied the calligraphy on a wine list rather than the chianti...this is the ideal book It's a comprehensive calligraphy course between covers, taught by...
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Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style BloggingIn the first ever book devoted to a critical investigation of the personal style blogosphere, Minh-Ha T. Pham examines the phenomenal rise of elite Asian bloggers who have made a career of posting photographs of themselves wearing clothes on the Internet. Pham understands their...
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Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold WarOffering the first comprehensive training in the visual arts grounded in abstraction, the Bauhaus was the site of a dazzling range of influential experiments in painting, architecture, photography, industrial design, and even artistic education itself. Three-quarters of a century later, the "look" of the...
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On FashionUntil recently, fashion was considered the "F-word" in intellectual circles, dismissed as unworthy of serious attention. Yet no area of life, no individual moment, stands outside fashion's discourses. Intuitively, we all know that clothing is a language, incessantly communicating messages about its wearer. But...
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Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and ConsumersHow has Paris, the world's fashion capital, influenced Milan, New York, and Tokyo? When did the Marlboro Man become a symbol of American masculinity? Why do Americans love to dress down in high-tech Lycra fabrics, while they wax nostalgic for quaint, old-fashioned Victorian cottages?...
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The Poster: 1,000 Posters from Toulouse-Lautrec to SagmeisterThis complete international history of poster design from the Art Nouveau to the present covers all of the significant developments in poster design, and every important type of poster, from wine and war to rock and rebellion. One thousand posters illustrate the work of...
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Victorian Horizons: The Reception of the Picture Books of Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, and Kate GreenawayLundin explores the contemporary response to the picture books of three pioneer Victorian illustrators of children's books: Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, and Kate Greenaway. Over a century after their first printing, the picture books are striking--breathtaking in their line, color, and design. The author...
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The Book Art of Richard Minsky: My Life in Book ArtRichard Minsky is known for his conceptual approach to the book as an art object. He combines a background in economics with an innovative use of traditional methods and new materials to create sculptural, often political, bookworks. Minsky's blending of an eclectic mix of...
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The World Needs More Love Letters All-In-One Stationery and EnvelopesIrresistible all-in-one stationery and envelopes for writing love letters to a lover, friend, parent, child, or other important recipient, from the TED speaker and creator of The World Needs More Love Letters website. The world needs more love letters...and here are 40 gorgeous pages--and...
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Clothing the Clergy: Virtue and Power in Medieval Europe, C. 800 1200After initial ambivalence about distinctive garb for its ministers, early Christianity developed both liturgical garments and visible markers of clerical status outside church. From the ninth century, moreover, new converts to the faith beyond the Alps developed a highly ornate style of liturgical attire;...
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