costume design

Follows a New York City fashion designer through her day as she draws sketches, consults with pattern makers, meets with buyers from various stores, and teaches at a design school.

Gives a glimpse into the creative world of the fashion designer, showing how new styles are conceived, produced, and marketed.

Budding costume designer Lola lives an extraordinary life in San Francisco with her two dads and beloved dog, dating a punk rocker, but when the Bell twins return to the house next door Lola recalls both the friendship-ending fight with Calliope, a figure skater, and the childhood crush she had on Cricket.

Provides information on and assessment of fashion designers active throughout the world during the period from 1945 to the mid-1990s, arranged alphabetically and including illustrations.

A history of twentieth-century fashion, highlighting the trends, designers, garments, and accessories of eleven specific eras. Includes photographs and illustrations.

Tina Knowles, stylist for Destiny's Child and mother of singer Beyonce, shares behind-the-scenes stories about the pop group and offers advice on fashion, hair and makeup, inner beauty, budgets, home decor, and entertaining. Includes favorite family recipes.

Contains five hundred alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about the fashion world, covering clothes and accessory designers, photographers, models, hairdressers, make-up artists, and individuals who instigated or symbolize fashion movements; each with a photograph or drawing.

Considers career possibilities for people who have an interest in fashion and design. Includes success stories and suggestions for finding out more.

Sara tries to take care of her younger brother when he is teased and called Bernadette at summer camp, but he finds an activity that he enjoys and that gives him the chance to shed his new nickname for good.

A guide to drawing for fashion designers that discusses tools, materials, techniques, creating texture, terms, figure proportions and poses, hairstyles, and other related topics and includes step-by-step instructions for projects.