Every title arrives with its own set of expectations. Will this book will educate, entertain, induce ennui, or broaden the reader’s perspective of the world of fashion?
Here a few questions you need to ask yourself before you decide to read this book: Do you have any interest in arcane subjects? In esoterica? In rarefied subject matter?
In today’s sphere of fashion there are very few fashionphiles who would be at a loss or unable to understand the mechanics of contemporary fashion illustration whether actual illustration or photog
Ahhh, the holidays. At this time of year there is a minor flood of glossy coffee table books that deal with fine jewelry, travel, art in its many manifestations, and timepieces.
Footprint serves as both a personal journey for its authors as well as a chronicle of designers whose focus is on one of the most coveted of accessories for most women: shoes.
What perplexes most is that if an author is going to immerse herself in a subject, why can’t she be fluent with the language and vocabulary of that topic?
It has often been asked whether Haute Couture is an art, but rarely has that question been applied to or asked of Haute Coiffure—that is if you even knew there was such a category of hair/hairdress
NY Journal of Books just reviewed Fashion: A Timeline in Photographs: 1850 to Today and FashionPlates should have been its predecessor as it details in chronological ord
it is pretty safe to say that the brand and the designer, Christian Dior, have had more ink devoted to them than any other brand or designer within the world of international fashion.
There is always high expectation when a reader opens a book like Portraits in Fashion: Norman Parkinson. The reality should live up to or graze the level of expectation.
