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Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to dress. We chase fads, choose inappropriate materials and unattractive cuts, and waste energy tottering in heels when we could be moving gracefully. Quite simply, we lack the fashion know-how we need to dress professionally and flatteringly. As historian and expert dressmaker Linda Przybyszewski reveals in The Lost Art of Dress, it wasn't always like this....
43) Naked: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Dalkey Archive edition.
Language
English
Description
""To write of her that which has never been written of any other woman." And with these words from Dante, Jean-Philippe Toussaint sets out once more to deepen and broaden his depiction of one of contemporary fiction's most fully realized female characters: haute couturière Marie Madeleine Marguerite de Montalte. Having traced the ups, downs, ins, and outs of Marie's relationship with the unnamed narrator through three previous novels, Toussaint...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A sweeping biography of one of the most influential and controversial legends of late twentieth-century fashion, an iconic designer whose colorful creations, including the "wrap dress," captured the modern feminist spirit.
The daughter of a Holocaust survivor and wife of an Austrian nobleman, Diane von Furstenberg burst onto New York's fashion scene in 1969, and within a few years became an international sensation with her colorful wrap dress in...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin introduces readers to the most well-known fashion designer in the world, Coco Chanel. Beginning with the difficult years Chanel spent in an orphanage, Goldman Rubin traces Coco's development as a designer and demonstrates how her determination to be independent helped her gain worldwide recognition. Coco Chanel focuses on the obstacles Chanel faced as a financially independent woman in an era when women were...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Since she was young, Tala Raassi knew her fate lay in fashion. But growing up in her beloved homeland of Iran, a woman can be punished for exposing her hair in public, let alone wearing the newest trends. Despite strict regulations, Tala developed a keen sense of style in backroom cafes and secret parties. She never imagined her behavior would land her in prison, or bring the cruel sting of a whip for the crime of wearing a mini-skirt. Tala's forty...
Author
Series
Sydney Dovedale romances volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
To open her own dress shop, lady's maid Molly Robbins, whose unique dress designs have caught the eye of society's elite, makes a deal with the Earl of Everscham who proposes a scandalous new addendum to their contract.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Diane Von Furstenberg, Vivienne Westwood, Sarah Burton, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Donna Karan, and Iris van Herpen are among the great women designers to emerge in the last few decades. We now live in an age when no one would dare call them "that little seamstress," as Paul Poiret disdainfully referred to Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel more than a century ago. The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion highlights early innovative and contemporary designers working...
50) Fashion victim
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Stylish New York fashion designer Cara Fletcher names her men's line Fletcher's Gear. Virginian CEO Fletcher Wolf of Fletcher Tool and Gear promptly sues. Cara starts to wonder whether Fletcher is also orchestrating the vandalism that's costing her hundreds of thousands of dollars at her studio and her home. Coloring her hair "serious brown, " Cara meets Fletcher in court, where the two fall instantly in lust.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A sumptuous novel based on the fascinating true story of La Belle Époque icon Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, who shattered the boundaries of fashion with her magnificently sensual and enchantingly unique designs. Lucy Duff Gordon knows she is talented. She sees color, light, and texture in ways few people can begin to imagine. But is the male dominated world of haute couture, who would use her art for their own gain, ready for her? When she is deserted...
53) Summertime
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
When her boyfriend's job takes him to the Brazilian rain forest, Venetia Summers finds her life begin to unravel as she deals with suddenly single motherhood, children, eccentric new neighbors, and family.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When hopeful fashionista Meg Julliard must return to her hometown of Chicago to manage her late father's apartment building, she thinks her dreams of making it in the fashion business are over. Add in her father's eclectic roster of tenants who all need Meg's attention, a host of building-related disasters, and a handsome handyman she keeps embarrassing herself in front of, and this has all the makings for the worst Christmas she's ever had"--
55) Of Irish blood
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing a crushing affair, Nora Kelly enters the Left Bank society of early twentieth-century Paris, where she joins the struggle to free Ireland.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Maddie Goldbloom stitched up a plan to ensure everything in her life was perfect - from a career in fashion to a chic NYC apartment to a pediatrician boyfriend. When her ex, Chase Black, storms back into her life with an outrageous request, her immediate reaction is to refuse him. But he only wants to fulfill his father's last wish. So even though he's the man who broke her heart, playing his fiancée shouldn't be hard, especially if it means she...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In a time when children were meant to be seen and not heard, along came Coco, a small French orphan with an eye for style, a talent for sewing, and a big imagination. Coco grew up in an orphanage run by very strict nuns, but she wasn't very good at following rules. Her imaginative spirit led her to grow into one of the world's most beloved fashion icons.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Born into a life of hard work, English housemaid Annie Wood arrives in New York City in 1911 with her wealthy mistress. Wide-eyed with the possibilities America has to offer, Annie wonders if there's more for her than a life of service. Annie chooses to risk everything, taps into courage she never knew she had, and goes off on her own, finding employment in the sewing department at Macy's department store. While at Macy's Annie catches the eye of...
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