Author: Carlyn Beccia
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1582704880
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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"Go on an exploration of how fashion has evolved through colorful illustrated timelines like the evolution of pants, skirts, the little black dress, and the fashions of the White House (aka First Lady Fashions). Discover ... DIY projects and style inspiration boards, all the while learning how women of different shapes, sizes, and colors have redefined what it means to be beautiful."--Dust jacket.
Author: Jennifer Croll
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781554517886
Category : Celebrities
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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"Explores the lives of ten famous women who have used clothing to make a statement, change perceptions, break rules, attract power, or express their individuality. Included are Cleopatra, Marie Antoinette, Coco Chanel, Marlene Dietrich, Madonna, and Lady Gaga. Sidebar subjects include: Elizabeth I, Marilyn Monroe, Rihanna, and Vivienne Westwood."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Lauren M. Lowell
Publisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478653205
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Dressing Historical Characters demystifies historical dress for designers embarking on the creative and collaborative process of production design and performance. Lauren Lowell offers a practical, accessible foundation in historical costume knowledge designed to enhance the creative storytelling process. From the bustling stages of theatre to the dynamic frames of film, understanding the basics of period costumes is key to crafting immersive narratives. Lowell equips students and professionals in theatre, dance, and film with the tools to engage in informed preliminary discussions about different historical periods and cultural attire, laying the groundwork for deeper research. The book features an invaluable full-color insert, illustrating the layered complexity of historical garments—from the underpinnings to the outerwear—providing clarity on how these pieces function and interact.
Author: Hyeran Jo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316432432
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355
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Seventeen million people have died in civil wars and rebel violence has disrupted the lives of millions more. In a fascinating contribution to the active literature on civil wars, this book finds that some contemporary rebel groups actually comply with international law amid the brutality of civil conflicts around the world. Rather than celebrating the existence of compliant rebels, the author traces the cause of this phenomenon and argues that compliant rebels emerge when rebel groups seek legitimacy in the eyes of domestic and international audiences that care about humanitarian consequences and human rights. By examining rebel groups' different behaviors such as civilian killing, child soldiering, and allowing access to detention centers, Compliant Rebels offers key messages and policy lessons about engaging rebel groups with an eye toward reducing civilian suffering in war zones.
Author: Keanan Duffty
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN: 9780789318107
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Tracing the roots of rebel style to the music scene, this book explores how fashionable music and "anti-fashion" icons, like David Bowie, the Sex Pistols, and Gwen Stefani, have inspired fashion. Rebel style is all about wearing common or mundane items with a sense of creativity and irony. The classic leather jacket (think Brando or Joan Jett) remains a symbol of "outsider-dom," while jeans have been reimagined as a style centerpiece by every generation. The skirt is constantly being reappraised, whether it’s mini, peasant, or frou-frou, to simultaneously celebrate and subvert images of femininity. Rebel, Rebel is the anti-style bible that will inspire the next generation of designers, fashionistas, and club kids alike.
Author: Robin Givhan
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250052904
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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"Conceived as a fundraiser for the restoration of King Louis XIV's palace, the world's elite gathered in Versailles' grand theater to view a fashion extravaganza of the best that French and American designers had to offer ... What they saw would forever alter the history of fashion. At the Battle of Versailles five Americans--Oscar de la Renta, Bill Blass, Anne Klein, Halston, and Stephen Burrows--faced off against the five French designers considered the best in the world--Yves Saint Laurent, Hubert de Givenchy, Pierre Cardin, Emanuel Ungaro, and Marc Bohan of Christian Dior. Against all odds, the American energy and the domination by their fearless models (ten of whom, in a ground-breaking move, were African-American) sent the audience reeling. By the end of the evening, the Americans had transformed their place on the world stage and sowed the seeds for changing the way race, gender, sexuality, and economics would be treated in fashion for decades to come"--
Author: Chris Shook
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 1601427298
Category : Beauty, Personal
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Looks at the origins of modern cultural standards of feminine beauty, and encourages women to look past artificial, shallow ideals of beauty and toward the true beauty bestowed by God.
Author: Ding-Zhu Du
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642387683
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 877
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, COCOON 2013, held in Hangzhou, China, in June 2013. The 56 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. There was a co-organized workshop on discrete algorithms of which 8 short papers were accepted and a workshop on computational social networks where 12 papers out of 25 submissions were accepted.
Author: Jean Baudrillard
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1473998417
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
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Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theorists. This major work occupies a central place in the rethinking of the humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism. It leads the reader on an exhilarating tour encompassing the end of Marxism, the enchantment of fashion, symbolism about sex and the body, and the relations between economic exchange and death. Most significantly, the book represents Baudrillard′s fullest elaboration of the concept of the three orders of the simulacra, defining the historical passage from production to reproduction to simulation. A classic in its field, Symbolic Exchange and Death is a key source for the redefinition of contemporary social thought. Baudrillard′s critical gaze appraises social theories as diverse as cybernetics, ethnography, psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism, communications theory and semiotics. This English translation begins with a new introductory essay.
Author: Augustin Challamel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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