fashion designers

Explores how the rivalry between influential fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld and Jacques de Bascher in the 1970s forever changed the world's fashion industry.

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

An illustrated guide to the life and work of fashion icon Gabrielle Chanel, describing her childhood in an orphanage, early successes, extraordinary influence on the fashions of the twentieth century, and lasting legacy in the fashion world.

A collection of photographs and concept sketches by Oleg Cassini that profile the dresses, coats, suits, evening gowns, and day wear Cassini designed for Jackqueline Kennedy during the one thousand days she spent as the First Lady.

Fleeing for Ireland in the wake of a failed relationship, fashion designer Kate Robinson finds herself in a coastal Gaelic village and bonds with the members of a lace-making society, through whom she finds healing by listening to their stories of loss and suffering.

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.

Examines the life and career of American fashion designer Marc Jacobs.

Eighteen-year-old Sami Granger moves to New York from Elk Lake, Minnesota, with dreams of becoming a fashion designer, but when her first job ends in disaster she is forced to accept employment at a naughty lingerie store where she learns to redirect her talent, life, and love.

Provides brief biographies of fashion designers, and includes career highlights, secrets of success, and more.

Presents a comprehensive biography on Coco Chanel chronicling her climb from a poor orphan to a wealthy fashion designer known around the world.