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  • Chanel

    A Woman of Her Own

    by Axel Madsen ...
    A fascinating look at the real Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, the designer who forever revolutionized the way women look. She was a free spirit, brilliant business woman, and beauty who never found reciprocated love. Madsen, with authority, delves into this fashion doyenne's business and private lives to reveal one woman's extraordinary progress: from orphan to millinery shopkeeper, from lodestar of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Women from the Ankle Down

    The Story of Shoes and How They Define Us

    by Rachelle Bergstein ...
    Rachelle Bergstein brings readers along on a unique and delightful romp through the history of shoes, the women who wear them, and the profound impact they have on our lives.Women from the Ankle Down includes interviews and cameos with influential figures ranging from Lisa Mayock of Vena Cava to Oscar Award–winning costume designer Patrizia van Brandenstein, from Doc Martens historian Martin Roach ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Allure of Chanel

    by Paul Morand ...
    Translated by Euan Cameron ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    With a foreword by Karl Lagerfeld, “this enchanting, tiny book”—a series of transcriptions from interviews with the fashion icon—is the closest anyone can get to a face-to-face with Coco [Chanel]” (The Spectator)Coco Chanel invited Paul Morand to visit her in St. Moritz at the end of the Second World War when he was given the opportunity to write her memoirs; his notes of their conversations were ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Corset and the Crinoline

    An Illustrated History

    by W. B. Lord ...
    Series series Dover Fashion and Costumes
    Ever since Eve's first blush, clothes have girded, graced and transformed the female physique. Fascinating and insightful, The Corset and the Crinoline is an illustrated history of clothing's attendant underpinnings — especially those that whittled the female waist to its most slender proportions. Reproduced from a rare 1868 fashion publication, each page reveals how the use of wood, whalebone, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Glass of Fashion

    A Personal History of Fifty Years of Changing Tastes and the People Who Have Inspired Them

    by Cecil Beaton ...
    Gorgeously repackaged, this reissue of the classic book presents the iconic photographer’s expert and witty reminiscences of the personalities who inspired fashion’s golden eras, and left an indelible mark on his own sense of taste and style. "The camera will never be invented that could capture or encompass all that he actually sees," Truman Capote once said of Cecil Beaton. Though known for his ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Fashion Writing and Criticism

    History, Theory, Practice

    by Peter McNeil, Dr Sanda Miller ...
    Fashion Writing and Criticism provides students with the tools to critique fashion with skill and style. Explaining the history and theory of criticism, this innovative text demonstrates how the tradition of criticism has developed and how this knowledge can be applied to fashion, enabling students to acquire the methods and proper vocabulary to be active critics themselves.Integrating history and ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Kimono

    A Modern History

    by Terry Satsuki Milhaupt ...
    What is the kimono? Everyday garment? Art object? Symbol of Japan? As this book shows, the kimono has served all of these roles, its meaning changing across time and with the perspective of the wearer or viewer.Kimono: A Modern History begins by exposing the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century foundations of the modern kimono fashion industry. It explores the crossover between ‘art’ and ‘fashion’ ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Knickers

    An Intimate Re-appraisal

    by Rosemary Hawthorne ...
    The history of the knicker is a history of women's rights as much as fashion. From Queen Victoria and the Quaker reformer Amelia Bloomer to the G-string, Rosemary Hawthorne is the perfect guide through this fascinating history.As entertaining as it is informative, Rosemary Hawthorne exposes the true history of women's fashion, social history delivered with a large helping of humour, irreverence ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Ametora

    How Japan Saved American Style

    by W. David Marx ...
    The story of how Japan adopted and ultimately revived traditional American fashionLook closely at any typically "American" article of clothing these days, and you may be surprised to see a Japanese label inside. From high-end denim to oxford button-downs, Japanese designers have taken the classic American look—known as ametora, or "American traditional"—and turned it into a huge business for ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Fashionable Mind

    by Kennedy Fraser ...
    In these thirty-two essays, the fashion critic of The New Yorker inquires into the meaning of fashion and the resonance that exists between fashion trends and the undercurrent of change in American culture ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD