The Little Book Of Perfumes by Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez

A Little Book of Perfumes
Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez
AED 62.00
ISBN 9781846685194

Description

This marvellous little book is a distillation of the essence of Turin and Sanchez' acclaimed masterwork "Perfumes: The A - Z Guide". In "Perfumes", Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez reviewed nearly 1,500 fragrances in their witty, irreverent and innovative handbook - separating the divine from the good from the monumentally awful. Here in "The Little Book of Perfumes", the authors choose their 100 greatest fragrances of all time. Some are very famous, some hardly known, for women and men. There is Jicky (1889), unisex coeval of the Eiffel Tower and 'a towering masterpiece'; Chanel's Number 5 (1921), perhaps the world's most famous perfume, 'stretching deliciously like a sleepy panther'; Knize Ten which 'everyone should own because there is only one like it' and White Linen (1978), 'a canonical expression of the American ideal of sex appeal'. This is a perfect gift, a perfect browse.

About the Author

Luca Turin is a scientist with a controversial theory of how we smell. He is the author of The Secret of Scent and the subject of the bestselling Emperor of Scent. Tania Sanchez is a perfume collector and expert, and journalist. They both live in Boston.

Nigel Barker's Beauty Equation by Nigel Barker

Nigel Barker's Beauty Equation
Nigel Barker
AED 78.00
ISBN 9780810996427

Description

Drawing on 20 years of experience in the beauty business and 14 seasons of judging on America’s Next Top Model, photographer Nigel Barker has discov­ered the formula for revealing inner beauty that will have readers looking great and feeling even better.

Casting aside conventional rules (be tall! be skinny! have flawless skin!) Nigel shares the elements that, when added together, equal true beauty: humor, honesty, and confidence, to name a few. Armed with their own cameras, readers are guided through a series of self-portrait chal­lenges. Along the way, Nigel shares tips and advice on fashion, style, hair, and make-up, showing readers how to turn perceived negatives into positives, celebrate their uniqueness, and be their personal best.

About the Author

Nigel Barker is a fashion photographer and judge on America’s Next Top Model. His photographs have been printed in the pages of many major fashion magazines. He is a star on the personal appearance circuit and appears in promotions for Sony and Microsoft, among other brands. In addition to his work as a photographer, Barker is devoted to his humanitarian work for organizations such as the Humane Society of the United States and the Make-A-Wish Foundation. 

Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World's Most Inspiring Online Design Community by Jake Nickell

Threadless
Ten Years of T-shirts from the World's Most Inspiring Online Design Community
Jake Nickell
AED 95.00
ISBN 9780810996106

Description

Threadless.com is the phenomenally successful T-shirt company with more than 4 million tees sold since it began in 2000. It pioneered the online business model of crowd-sourced or community-driven design, in which people submit designs that are voted on by the site’s 1 million users and printed. Over the past 10 years, the company has amassed a vast archive of very cool, very hip, and often very entertaining designs, and Threadless is a spectacular showcase of 400 of the very best T-shirts created by the community—a barometer of art and design over the past decade.

Much more than a book of extraordinary graphics, Threadless tells the extremely interesting story that inspired Inc. magazine to hail Threadless.com as “the most innovative small company in America.” There are also profiles of individual designers and “think pieces” from influential admirers, including design guru John Maeda, Jeff Howe of Wired, and bestselling business/marketing writer Seth Godin.

About the Author

Jake Nickell is cofounder of Threadless.com and lives in Boulder, Colorado.

   

Lauren Conrad: Style by Lauren Conrad

Lauren Conrad: Style
Lauren Conrad
AED 78.00
ISBN 9780007395217

Description

You've seen Lauren on TV and on the red carpets; you've seen her lounging at home and striding into fashion meetings; you've seen her dressing for a casual day with friends and working out what to wear for a night out. And she always looks fabulous! In this book Lauren reveals how you can adapt her classic, understated style for yourself. By far the most popular star to emerge from MTV's hit reality TV show The Hills, Lauren's career is going from strength to strength. A style icon, TV superstar, bestselling novelist, and now a fashion designer in her own right, Lauren is the ultimate of fashionistas, and the star that every girl wants to look like. In this, Lauren's first non fiction title, she offers tips on exactly how to create your own beautiful, unique look -- ensuring you look your gorgeous best for every occasion, without breaking the bank. Sharing her sources of inspiration and revealing her favourite looks, Lauren helps you create your own individual style and identify the absolute must-haves for your wardrobe. She examines her own fashion evolution -- from Californian-casual teen to camera-ready style icon -- and shows you how to have fun with clothes.
From beauty advice and hair secrets to how to shop vintage or find the perfect T-shirt, Lauren Conrad Style unlocks the mysteries of being effortlessly chic. Packed full of gorgeous photographs and fun and flirty outfits, this is the ultimate style guide. With Lauren's guidance, you'll look and feel amazing every day.

About the Author

Lauren Conrad is best known for starring in MTV's #1 show, The Hills. She has been featured on the covers of Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, Seventeen and Entertainment Weekly, among others. Her first novel, L.A Candy was a huge bestseller. She lives in Los Angeles.

Allure by Diana Vreeland

Allure
Diana Vreeland
AED 146.00
ISBN 9780811870436

Description

Legendary fashion maven Diana Vreeland—at the urging of her editor Jackie O—authored a classic volume in the 1980s on the quality of "allure" in fashion and in life. Now back in print, this new edition features a foreword from the incomparable fashion designer Marc Jacobs. Throughout Allure, Vreeland lends her famous knack for turning a phrase to an astonishing array of fashion, celebrity, and fine art photographs. Featuring images of such luminaries as Maria Callas, Gertrude Stein, and Marilyn Monroe—shot by superstar photographers such as Man Ray, Cecil Beaton, and Richard Avedon—Allure is poised to deliver Vreeland's unparalleled point of view to a whole new generation.

About the Author

Fashion legend Diana Vreeland was editor-in-chief of Vogue throughout the 1960s.

Marc Jacobs is a highly influential fashion designer.

Fabric for Fashion: A Comprehensive Guide to Natural Fibres by Clive Hallett and Amanda Johnston

Fabric for Fashion: A Comprehensive Guide to Natural Fibres
Clive Hallett and Amanda Johnston
AED 193.00
ISBN 9781856696128

Description

Fashion is a three-dimensional design practice: clothes need to work with bodies that bend and stretch and move. A flat drawing on paper can replicate a body in two dimensions, but it doesn’t take into account the way the fabric will behave on the body. In the fashion industry it is often the fabrics that come first and the design is determined by how the fabrics work, move, feel and look. The most successful fashion designers are those who understand their materials, who match design skill with technical knowledge. This book aims to bridge that gap.

Providing a mix of practical information and the industry vocabulary, this easily navigable reference book will help students gain a clear understanding of how to work with fabrics as an integral component of the fashion design process. The book will visually examine generic fabric types, discuss their characteristics and show how to exploit materials to push the boundaries of design. With stunning colour photographs that show how fashion designers, both past and present, have worked with fabrics, the book’s prime objective is to stimulate creative exploration of the relationship of fabrics to fashion.

Coco Chanel: The Legend And The Life by Justin Picardie

Coco Chanel: The Legend And The Life
Justin Picardie
AED 135.00
ISBN 9780007317615

Description

The story of Chanel begins with an abandoned child, as lost as a girl in a dark fairy tale. Unveiling remarkable new details about Gabrielle Chanel's early years in a convent orphanage, and her flight into unconventional adulthood, Justine Picardie explores what lies beneath the glossy surface of a mythic fashion icon.

Throwing new light on her passionate and turbulent relationships, this beautifully constructed portrait gives a fresh and penetrating look at how Coco Chanel made herself into her own most powerful creation. An authoritative account, based on personal observations and interviews with Chanel's last surviving friends, employees, and relatives, it also unravels her coded language and symbols, and traces the influence of her formative years on her legendary style.

Feared and revered by the rest of the fashion industry, Coco Chanel died in 1971 at the age of eighty-seven. But her legacy lives on. Justine Picardie brings Gabrielle Chanel out of hiding and uncovers the consequences of what Chanel covered up, unpicking the seams between truth and myth in a story that reveals the true heart of fashion.

About the Author

Justine Picardie is the author of four books, including her critically acclaimed memoir If the Spirit Moves You and her most recent novel, Daphne. The former features director of British Vogue and editor of the Observer magazine, she is currently a fashion columnist for the Sunday Telegraph, and also writes for several other newspapers and magazines, including Harper's Bazaar and the Times of London. She lives in London with her two sons.

COLOUR ME BEAUTIFUL BY VERONIQUE HENDERSON & PAT HENSHAW

Colour Me Beautiful 
Veronique Henderson & Pat Henshaw
AED 94.00
ISBN 9780600620808

Description

Every woman knows that if you feel great on the outside, you are confident on the inside. Let the internationally-recognized "Colour Me Beautiful" team guide you through choosing perfect outfits for your shape and colouring. Find out your dominant colouring with the help of celebrity examples, and combine this with expert guidance on body shape, style personality, make-up and accessory advice. You'll then have everything you need to create your perfect capsule wardrobe and never have a bad style day again!

THE SARTORIALIST BY SCOTT SCHUMAN

The Sartorialist
Scott Schuman
AED 108
ISBN 9781846142505

Description

Scott Schuman just wanted to take photographs of people on the street who looked great. His now famous blog ['the bellwether American site that turned photo blogging into an art form'New York Times] was an attempt to showcase the wonderful and varied sartorial tastes of real people - not only those of the fashion industry. The book is a beautiful anthology of Scott's favourite shots from around the world. They include photographs of well-known fashion figures as well as those shots of the anonymous passerby whose imagination and taste delight the viewer.

From the streets of Rio to Bejing, Stockholm to Milan, these are the people that have inspired Scott and in turn, inspired designers and people of all ages, wages and nationalities with an interest in fashion. Intimately designed and created with Scott, the book is a handsome object in its own right, in full colour on hand-picked, quality paper.

About the Author

Scott Schuman started The Sartorialist simply to share photos of people that he saw on the streets of New York that he thought looked great. Having worked in fashion industry for fifteen years, he felt there was a disconnect between what he was selling in the showroom and what he was seeing people wear in real life. The Sartorialist was his attempt to redress the balance. He began shooting people on the street in a way that he knew most designers hunted for inspiration. The blog has become hugely respected and influential in the fashion industry and beyond. Scott Schuman now shoots regularly for many top fashion magazines around the world, and was picked by Time magazine as a top 100 design influencer.

Fashion Today by Colin McDowell

Fashion Today
Colin McDowell
AED 248
ISBN 9780714843346

Description

Fashion Today is a kaleidoscopic, colourful and provocative survey of the fashion world, from the introduction of Dior's New Look in 1947 to the present day.

This book is a thematic overview of fashion in the widest sense imaginable, ranging from haute couture to street-style, from the one-off to the mass market. It illustrates, with elegance and flair, just how vital and everlasting a part fashion has played in reflecting and influencing twentieth-century attitudes: from the sexual revolution and rise of popular culture in the 1960s to the consumerism of the 1980s and 90s.

Fashion Today places current fashion not only in the contexts of youth, sexuality, fetishism, exoticism and historicism, but also in the contexts of previous fashion movements. It demonstrates dynamically that fashion reflects not only its surroundings and its subjects but ultimately itself.

Aesthetically and intellectually stimulating, this volume is a must-have for anyone who has even the vaguest interest in any aspect of the fashion world today. Its breadth of scope and depth of insight are unprecedented.

A kaleidoscopic, colourful and provocative survey of the fashion world from the introduction of Dior's New Look in 1947 to the present day

Ranges from haute couture to street-style, from the one-off to the mass market

Shows how fashion has reflected and influenced 20th-century attitudes, from the sexual revolution in the 1960s to the consumerism of the 1980s and 1990s

McDowell places current fashion in the context of previous fashion movements

About the Author

Colin McDowell is a fashion historian and Senior Fashion Writer for The Sunday Times. He is the author of many books on the subject, including Literary Companion to Fashion(1995) and Galliano (1997).