Costumes Designer Sandy Powell
The Art and Practice of Costume Design
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In The Art and Practice of Costume Design, a panel of seven designers offer a new multi-sided look at the current state and practice of theatrical costume design. Beginning with an exploration of the role of a Costume Designer, the subsequent chapters analyse and explore the psychology of dress, the principles and elements of design, how to create costume renderings, and collaboration within the production. The book also takes a look at the costume shop and the role of the designer within it, and costume design careers within theatrical and fashion industries.
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- Best Choice - #1 Costumes Designer Sandy Powell
- Checked on 22/04/2023
- Based on 18 Reviews
Soft Surfaces: Visual Research for Artists, Architects, and Designers (Surfaces Series)
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Modeled on the successful Surfaces (1996), this stunning new collection of photographs catalogs how hundreds of varieties of textiles, grouped by structure and surface treatment, look up close and in interior and exterior applications such as window treatments, upholstery, awnings, tents, and floor coverings. The book is tailored to research needs in scope and focus, offering examples for architects, interior designers, textile professionals, theatrical and film designers, illustrators, and graphic designers. Interviews with professionals describe how they use visual research in their work. 1,200 high-quality color images of traditional and innovative textiles, in print and on CD-ROM
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- Best Choice - #2 Costumes Designer Sandy Powell
- Checked on 22/04/2023
- Based on 80 Reviews
Steve Hiett: Beyond Blonde
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Brimming with Steve Hiett’s riotously colorful photographs that evoke the trends and styles of their eras, this retrospective volume features images―most of which have never been published in book form―from a career that spans five decades. Since the late 1960s Steve Hiett has been capturing the changing world of fashion through his distinctive, eye-catchingphotography. Arranged by decades, this collection of Hiett’s work is filled with images that belie the photographer’snonchalance. Saturated with color, lighted by dazzling flashwork, and often off-center, Hiett’s photographs containbrilliantly composed worlds. They tell stories―and the storieschange with time. Whether it’s 1970s Miami, France in the1980s, or New York at the end of the 20th century, Hiett createsan of-the-moment impression that feels neither contrived norself-conscious. Of his illustrious career, Hiett has said “I don’tthink of myself as ‘a photographer.’ I think of myself as someonewho uses the camera to create images that I see in my head.”A brief introduction provides an insightful contrast to Hiett’sdescription of himself. The beautifully reproduced images in thisbook are further testament to Steve Hiett’s enduring imprint onthe world of fashion photography.
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- Best Choice - #3 Costumes Designer Sandy Powell
- Checked on 22/04/2023
- Based on 25 Reviews
Eyeglass Retrospective: Where Fashion Meets Science (Schiffer Book for Designers & Collectors)
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This book provides an overview for identifying and dating vintage eyewear for the growing numbers of collectors. Explore ways in which eyeglass design has developed to reflect both popular fashion and scientific investigation.The designs of frames and lenses were changed as more comfortable and practical styles were invented. In the mid-twentieth century, eyeglass makers carefully sought high profile entertainers to wear their designs in order to promote their companies. Advertising worked its magic and the general public came to prefer the advertised designs. Examples of eyewear from the sevententh century to the present are shown in over 600 color photos and explained in an engaging text. Bifocals, monocles, pince-nez, fanciful and safety styles of eyeglasses and sunglasses are shown along with some price estimates.
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- Best Choice - #4 Costumes Designer Sandy Powell
- Checked on 22/04/2023
- Based on 97 Reviews
A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk
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An unprecedented in-depth exploration of the complex interrelationship between high fashion and queer history and culture From Christian Dior to Yves Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen, many of the greatest fashion designers of the past century have been gay. Fashion and style have played an important role within the LGBTQ community, as well, even as early as the 18th century. This provocative book looks at the history of fashion through a queer lens, examining high fashion as a site of gay cultural production and exploring the aesthetic sensibilities and unconventional dress of LGBTQ people, especially since the 1950s, to demonstrate the centrality of gay culture to the creation of modern fashion. Contributions by some of the world’s most acclaimed scholars of gay history and fashion – including Christopher Breward, Shaun Cole, Vicki Karaminas, Jonathan D. Katz, Peter McNeil, and Elizabeth Wilson – investigate topics such as the context in which key designers’ lives and works form part of a broader “gay” history; the “archeology” of queer attire back to the homosexual underworld of 18th-century Europe; and the influence of LGBTQ subcultural styles from the trouser suits worn by Marlene Dietrich (which inspired Yves Saint Laurent’s “Le Smoking”) to the iconography of leather. Sumptuous illustrations include both fashion photography and archival imagery.
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- Best Choice - #5 Costumes Designer Sandy Powell
- Checked on 22/04/2023
- Based on 25 Reviews
Fashion Figure Poses: Female Croquis Templates for Designers and Illustrators
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Fashion Figure Poses Book includes 60 fashion templates, adapted from Complete Fashion Designers Guide Book, a book designed as a resource book for fashion designers, fashion illustrators and students of fashion. Poses from different angles like front view, back view, side view are included. While using this book you can trace or scan any pose, then draw your own fashion design on it.
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- Best Choice - #6 Costumes Designer Sandy Powell
- Checked on 22/04/2023
- Based on 70 Reviews
The Fashion Designer's Textile Directory: A Guide to Fabrics' Properties, Characteristics, and Garment-Design Potential
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This valuable materials directory for professional dressmakers and fashion designers is also a good reference source for students of fashion design, as well as for those who make their own garments. The author points out the best fabrics for creating specific garments, explaining how each fabric's qualities make it suitable for various items of apparel. Knowing which fabrics can support a structured silhouette is fundamental to fashion design, and this book explains the use of stiff or crisply textured fabrics for tailored garments, as well as soft textured fabrics for rounded forms. Ornamentation is also discussed, and includes advice on how to work with different fabrics to create what author Gail Baugh classifies as opulent, simple, and in-between decorative effects. The book's additional features include: Fiber characteristics charts Weave charts and knit charts with fabric names and photos A glossary of terms and definitions Lists of textile suppliers, online stores, and study resources This directory of textiles and their uses is profusely illustrated with more than 500 color photos.
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- Best Choice - #7 Costumes Designer Sandy Powell
- Checked on 22/04/2023
- Based on 69 Reviews
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- Best Choice - #8 Costumes Designer Sandy Powell
- Checked on 22/04/2023
- Based on 36 Reviews
Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion
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Future Beauty is the first comprehensive survey of Japanese avant-garde fashion of the last 30 years. Such designers as Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo made an enormous impact on the world fashion scene in the late twentieth century, challenging established notions of beauty and turning fashion into art. Today a new generation of radical designers, among them Tao Kurihara and Jun Takahashi, is fast gaining acclaim. This spectacular book, written by a team of experts led by the eminent fashion historian Akiko Fukai, explores the distinct sensibility of Japanese design the uniqueness of its form, cut and fabric. Illustrated with over 250 photographs and sketches, Future Beauty is an authoritative and stylish guide to some of the world’s most expressive fashion.
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- Best Choice - #9 Costumes Designer Sandy Powell
- Checked on 22/04/2023
- Based on 75 Reviews
Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs
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The New York Times bestseller“[An] obscenely enjoyable romp.” —The New York Times Book ReviewThe untold story of a New York City legend's education in creativity and styleFor Bill Cunningham, New York City was the land of freedom, glamour, and, above all, style. Growing up in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston, secretly trying on his sister's dresses and spending his evenings after school in the city's chicest boutiques, Bill dreamed of a life dedicated to fashion. But his desires were a source of shame for his family, and after dropping out of Harvard, he had to fight them tooth-and-nail to pursue his love. When he arrived in New York, he reveled in people-watching. He spent his nights at opera openings and gate-crashing extravagant balls, where he would take note of the styles, new and old, watching how the gowns moved, how the jewels hung, how the hair laid on each head. This was his education, and the birth of the democratic and exuberant taste that he came to be famous for as a photographer for The New York Times. After two style mavens took Bill under their wing, his creativity thrived and he made a name for himself as a designer. Taking on the alias William J.--because designing under his family's name would have been a disgrace to his parents--Bill became one of the era's most outlandish and celebrated hat designers, catering to movie stars, heiresses, and artists alike. Bill's mission was to bring happiness to the world by making women an inspiration to themselves and everyone who saw them. These were halcyon days when fashion was all he ate and drank. When he was broke and hungry he'd stroll past the store windows on Fifth Avenue and feed himself on beautiful things.Fashion Climbing is the story of a young man striving to be the person he was born to be: a true original. But although he was one of the city's most recognized and treasured figures, Bill was also one of its most guarded. Written wit... [Read More]
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- Best Choice - #10 Costumes Designer Sandy Powell
- Checked on 22/04/2023
- Based on 43 Reviews
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