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The Great Fashion Designers

By: Brenda Polan,Roger Tredre

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Over the course of the last 180 years, designers have propelled fashion from an elite craft into a cornerstone of popular culture. This brilliantly written guide to the lives and collections of 55 iconic fashion designers draws on the latest academic research and the best of fashion journalism, including the authors' own interviews with designers. Beginning with 19th century couturier Charles Frederick Worth and concluding with the star names of the 2010s, Polan and Tredre detail each designer's working methods and career highlights with engaging essays that capture the spirit of their times. This revised edition has hundreds of inspiring colour photos and features five new designer profiles: Hedi Slimane, Raf Simons, Phoebe Philo, Alessandro Michele and Demna Gvasalia. It's also been updated throughout to reflect a fashion world in constant ferment, with designers swapping jobs and fashion houses at unprecedented speed. The industry has expanded into a global phenomenon and designers have emerged as true celebrities; The Great Fashion Designers explores their passion and flair, showing us fashion at its most inspirational.

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The Great Fashion Designers

From Chanel to McQueen, the names that made fashion history

By: Brenda Polan,Roger Tredre

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The Great Fashion Designers

From Chanel to McQueen, the names that made fashion history

By: Brenda Polan,Roger Tredre

Over the last 180 years designers have propelled fashion from an elite craft into a cornerstone of popular culture. This brilliantly written guide to the lives and collections of 55 iconic fashion designers draws on the latest academic research and the best of fashion journalism, including the authors' own interviews with designers. Beginning with 19th century couturier Charles Frederick Worth and concluding with the star names of the 2010s, Polan and Tredre detail each designer's working methods and career highlights to capture the spirit of their times. This beautifully illustrated revised edition features five new designer profiles: Hedi Slimane, Raf Simons, Phoebe Philo, Alessandro Michele and Demna Gvasalia. It's also been updated throughout to reflect a fashion world in constant ferment, with designers swapping jobs and fashion houses at unprecedented speed. The industry has expanded into a global phenomenon - and designers have emerged as true celebrities; The Great Fashion Designers explores their passion and flair to show us fashion at its most inspirational.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350091634

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From Chanel to McQueen, the names that made fashion history

By: Brenda Polan,Roger Tredre

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From Chanel to McQueen, the names that made fashion history

By: Brenda Polan,Roger Tredre

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Virginia Woolf Icon

By: Brenda R. Silver

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Virginia Woolf Icon

By: Brenda R. Silver

The proliferation of Virginia Woolfs in both high and popular culture, she argues, has transformed the writer into a "star" whose image and authority are persistently claimed or challenged in debates about art, politics, gender, the canon, class, feminism, and fashion."--BOOK JACKET.

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384

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University of Chicago Press

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0226757455

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9780226757452

Gendering the Nation

Canadian Women's Cinema

By: Kass Banting,Brenda Longfellow

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Gendering the Nation

Canadian Women's Cinema

By: Kass Banting,Brenda Longfellow

The definitive collection of essays, both original and previously published, that address the impact and influence of a century of women's film making in Canada.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802079644

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9780802079640

Structures of Appearing:Allegory and the Work of Literature

Allegory and the Work of Literature

By: Brenda Machosky

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Structures of Appearing:Allegory and the Work of Literature

Allegory and the Work of Literature

By: Brenda Machosky

Structures of Appearing: Allegory and the Work of Literature is an interdisciplinary study that revises the history of allegory through a phenomenological approach. The book also takes on the history of aesthetics as an ideology that has long subjugated literature (and art generally) to criteria of judgment that are philosophical rather than literary.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823242846

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9780823242849

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