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• The artisan republic
• A self-made nation
• Learn trades or die
• A more perfect union
• Americana
• Making war
• Declarations of independence
• Cut and paste
• Can craft save America?

"A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day"-- Provided by publisher.

• List of illustrations Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction, Anthea Black (California College of the Arts, USA) and Nicole Burisch (National Gallery of Canada)
• 1. From Craftivism to Craftwashing, Anthea Black (California College of the Arts, USA) and Nicole Burisch (National Gallery of Canada)
• 2. Ethical Fashion, Craft and the New Spirit of Global Capitalism, Elke Gaugele (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria)
• 3. Selven O'Keef Jarmon: Beading Across Geographies, Nicole Burisch (National Gallery of Canada)
• 4. The Making of Many Hands: Artisanal Production and Neighborhood Redevelopment in Contemporary Socially Engaged Art, Noni Brynjolson (University of Indianapolis, USA)
• 5. That Looks Like Work: The Total Aesthetics of Handcraft, Shannon R. Stratton (Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists Residency, USA)
• 6. Craft as Property as Liberalism as Problem, Leopold Kowolik (Sheridan College and York University, Canada)
• 7. Zahner Metals: Architectural Fabrication and Craft Labour, Peggy Deamer (Yale University and Deamer Studio, USA)
• 8. Capitalising on Community: The Makerspace Phenomenon, Diana Sherlock (Alberta University of the Arts, Canada)
• 9. Morehshin Allahyari: On Material Speculation, Alexis Anais Avedisian (NYC Media Lab, USA) and Anna Khachiyan (independent, USA)
• 10. From Molten Plastic to Polished Mahogany: Bricolage and Scarcity in 1990s Cuban Art, Blanca Serrano Ortiz De Solorzano (Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, USA)
• 11. Things Needed Made, Nasrin Himada (independent scholar, Canada)
• 12. Secret Stash: Textiles, Hoarding, Collecting, Accumulation and Craft, Kirsty Robertson (Western University, Canada)
• 13. Shinique Smith: Lines that Bind, Julia Bryan-Wilson (University of California, USA)
• 14. Margarita Cabrera: Landscapes of Nepantla, Laura August (independent scholar, Guatemala/USA)
• 15. The Sovereign Stitch: Re-reading Embroidery as a Critical Feminist-Decolonial Text, Ellyn Walker (Queen's University, Canada)
• 16. Ursula Johnson: Weaving Histories and Netukulimk in L'nuwelti'k (We Are Indian) and Other Works, Heather Anderson (Carleton University Art Gallery, Canada)
• 17. 'The Black Craftsman Situation': A Critical Conversation about Race and Craft Sonya Clark (Amherst College, USA), Wesley Clark (artist, USA), Bibiana Obler (George Washington University, USA), Mary Savig (Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, USA), Joyce J. Scott (artist, USA) and Namita Gupta Wiggers (Warren Wilson College, USA) Index.
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Contemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the flows of production and consumption under global capitalism. The New Politics of the Handmade features twenty-three voices who critically rethink the handmade in this dramatically shifting economy. The authors examine craft within the conditions of extreme material and economic disparity; a renewed focus on labour and materiality in contemporary art and museums; the political dimensions of craftivism, neoliberalism, and state power; efforts toward urban renewal and sustainability; the use of digital technologies; and craft's connections to race, cultural identity and sovereignty in texts that criss-cross five continents. They claim contemporary craft as a dynamic critical position for understanding the most immediate political and aesthetic issues of our time.
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• Introduction: Where should we begin? / Ted Ownby and Becca Walton
• Patches of resistance on the badges of enslavement: enslaved southerners, Negro cloth, and fashionability in the cotton South / Katie Knowles
• Confederate cultures of military clothing production / Sarah Jones Weicksel
• WPA sewing projects: a case study in southern encounters with the New Deal welfare state / Susannah Walker
• "Thinking of you every minute (and every stitch)": sewing, clothing, and identity at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, 1950-1969 / Becca Walton
• The Mississippi Poor People's Corporation: clothing manufacture and consumer capitalism in defense of Black voting rights, 1965-1974 / William Sturkey
• The dress makes the band: used clothes, drag acts, and bohemians in the Athens, Georgia music scene / Grace Elizabeth Hale
• Afterword / Jonathan Prude

Contributions by Grace Elizabeth Hale, Katie Knowles, Ted Ownby, Jonathan Prude, William Sturkey, Susannah Walker, Becca Walton, and Sarah Jones WeickselFashion studies have long centered on the art and preservation of finely rendered garments of the upper class, and archival resources used in the study of southern history have gaps and silences. Yet, little study has been given to the approach of clothing as something made, worn, and intimately experienced by enslaved people, incarcerated people, and the poor and working class, and by subcultures perceived as transgressive. The essays in the volume, using clothing as a point of departure, encourage readers to imagine the South's centuries-long engagement with a global economy through garments, with cotton harvested by enslaved or poorly paid workers, milled in distant factories, designed with influence from cosmopolitan tastemakers, and sold back in the South, often by immigrant merchants. Contributors explore such topics as how free and enslaved women with few or no legal rights claimed to own clothing in the mid-1800s, how white women in the Confederacy claimed the making of clothing as a form of patriotism, how imprisoned men and women made and imagined their clothing, and clothing cooperatives in civil rights-era Mississippi. An introduction by editors Ted Ownby and Becca Walton asks how best to begin studying clothing and fashion in southern history, and an afterword by Jonathan Prude asks how best to conclude.
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• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Data Collection Data-Driven Compatibility Modeling Knowledge-Guided Compatibility Modeling Prototype-Wise Interpretable Compatibility Modeling Personalized Compatibility Modeling Personalized Capsule Wardrobe Creation Research Frontiers Bibliography Authors' Biographies.
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Nowadays, fashion has become an essential aspect of people's daily life.As each outfit usually comprises several complementary items, such as a top, bottom, shoes, and accessories, a proper outfit largely relies on the harmonious matching of these items. Nevertheless, not everyone is good at outfit composition, especially those who have a poor fashion aesthetic. Fortunately, in recent years the number of online fashion-oriented communities, like IQON and Chictopia, as well as e-commerce sites, like Amazon and eBay, has grown. The tremendous amount of real-world data regarding people's various fashion behaviors has opened a door to automatic clothing matching. Despite its significant value, compatibility modeling for clothing matching that assesses the compatibility score for a given set of (equal or more than two) fashion items, e.g., a blouse and a skirt, yields tough challenges: (a) the absence of comprehensive benchmark; (b) comprehensive compatibility modeling with the multi-modal feature variables is largely untapped; (c) how to utilize the domain knowledge to guide the machine learning; (d) how to enhance the interpretability of the compatibility modeling; and (e) how to model the user factor in the personalized compatibility modeling. These challenges have been largely unexplored to date. In this book, we shed light on several state-of-the-art theories on compatibility modeling. In particular, to facilitate the research, we first build three large-scale benchmark datasets from different online fashion websites, including IQON and Amazon. We then introduce a general data-driven compatibility modeling scheme based on advanced neural networks. To make use of the abundant fashion domain knowledge, i.e., clothing matching rules, we next present a novel knowledge guided compatibility modeling framework. Thereafter, to enhance the model interpretability, we put forward a prototype wise interpretable compatibility modeling approach. Following that, noticing the subjective aesthetics of users, we extend the general compatibility modeling to the personalized version. Moreover, we further study the real-world problem of personalized capsule wardrobe creation, aiming to generate a minimum collection of garments that is both compatible and suitable for the user. Finally, we conclude the book and present future research directions, such as the generative compatibility modeling, virtual try-on with arbitrary poses, and clothing generation.
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• Acknowledgments Note on Spelling Prologue I. Indonesian chic past and present
• 1. A brief history of fashion in Indonesia II. Presenting Fashion
• 2. Performing fashion: fashion weeks, fashion events, fashion-as-art
• 3. 'Made in Indonesia' for the global stage III. Mediating Fashion
• 4. Fashion in print and online: digitalising beauty and style IV. Consuming Fashion
• 5. Visiting malls and buying online: shopping for style
• 6. Wearing clothes, styling the self: Indonesian women and fashion Epilogue List of Illustrations Notes Bibliography Index.
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Indonesian fashion has undergone a period of rapid growth over the last three decades. This book explores how through years of social, political, and cultural upheaval, the country's fashion has moved away from "colonial fashion" and "national dress" to claim its own distinct identity as contemporary fashion in a global world. With specific reference to women's wear, Contemporary Indonesian Fashion explores the diversity and complexity of the country's sartorial offerings, which weave together local textile traditions like batik and ikat-making with contemporary narratives. The book questions concepts of "tradition" and "modernity" in the developing world, taking stock of the elite consumption of luxury brands and the large-scale manufacturing of fast fashion, and introduces us to the rise of new trends such as busana muslim (or "modest wear"), creating a portrait of a vibrant and growing national and, increasingly, international, industry. Exploring clothing in shopping malls, on the catwalk, in magazines, and online, the book examines how Indonesian fashion is made, presented, and consumed, combining research in Indonesia with analysis and personal reflection. Contemporary Indonesian Fashion ultimately questions the deeply entrenched eurocentrism of "global fashion", simultaneously interrogating current homogenizing beauty and body image discourses posited as universal, by pointing to absences, silences, and erasures as reflected by contemporary Indonesian fashion- hence the "looking glass" of the title. Aptly illustrated, the book offers a new perspective on a rapidly developing new fashion capital, Jakarta.
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• List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Foreword Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction: Crafting Anatomies - Katherine Townsend, Rhian Solomon, and Amanda Briggs-Goode
• I. The Archived Body edited by Amanda Briggs-Goode
• 2. The Archived Lace Body: Contemporary artist designer responses - Amanda Briggs-Goode and Gail Baxter
• 3. Disarmed: Lasting impressions - Jo Cope and Johannes Reponen
• 4. Dis-Comforting, Pioneering, and Re-Materializing: Crafting understanding of older men's experiences of ageing through their personal archives - Ania Sadkowska
• 5. The Electric Corset and Other Future Histories - Katherine Townsend, Sarah Kettley, and Sarah Walker
• II. The Body in Dialogue edited by Rhian Solomon
• 6. Fashion and Participation in Hands of X - Andrew Cook and Graham Pullin
• 7. Tissue Engineered Textiles: Craft's place in the laboratory - Amy Congdon, Lucy Di Silvio, and Carole Collet
• 8. Mind-Body-Garment-Cloth - Holly McQuillan and Timo Rissanen
• 9. Empowerment and Self-Care: Designing for the female body - Giulia Tomasello and Teresa Almeida
• III. The Fabricated Body edited by Katherine Townsend
• 10. Our Own Skin: The development of 3D printed footwear inspired by human skin - Manolis Papastavrou, Liz Ciokajlo, and Rhian Solomon
• 11. Material Robotics: Shaping the sensitive Interface - Amy Winters
• 12. The Genetics Gym - Adam Peacock
• 13. The Body as Factory: A post-productivist fashion practice through film - Lara Torres Discussion
• 14. On Fashioning Anatomy - Joanne Entwistle and Katherine Townsend Index.
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The human body lies at the centre of our relationship to fashion and textiles. Crafting Anatomies explores how the body has become a catalyst for archival research, creative dialogues and hybrid fabrications in fashion design. Focusing on how our response to the corporeal has shifted over time, the book looks at how it is currently influencing design and socio-material practices. With contributions from a multidisciplinary range of scholars and researchers, Crafting Anatomies examines how new technologies have become integrated with traditional fashion and textiles techniques, bringing together art, science and biomedical approaches. Traversing the cutting-edge of design research, the chapters take us from the forgotten lives of historical garments to the potential of biofabrication to cross the boundaries between skin and textile. Illustrated with 120 images visualising original research, the book reveals how the human body continues to inspire future design, from historical wearables to prosthetic limbs and 3D-printed footwear. In doing so, it provides an inspiring account of how fashion and textile culture now impacts socio-creativity and the formation of contemporary identity.
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• Foreword: Futurism, Maximalism, and the Black Queen Preface: A New Maximalism Unit One: Searching
• 1. Text-based Searching Strategies Case Study: In Search of Kate Moss
• 2. Visual Searching Unit Two: Connecting
• 3. Blogging, Research, and Instagram
• 4. Critical Reading of Social Media Texts Case Study: Reading the Moschino 'Capsule Collection' Unit Three: Making
• 5. Data Visualization
• 6. Mapping Case Study: Coding Fashion is Spinach Conclusions: Responding to the Critique of Maximalism Post-Script: Maximalist Muse: A Conversation with Kristen Bateman Bibliography Glossary Index.
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Are you a researcher struggling to mine and make sense of a mountain of fashion data? Are you interested in learning about how digital methods and tools could enhance your research? Have you thought about ways to spark and engage in academic conversations on social media? Have you wondered how digital technologies are internationalizing the field of fashion and textile studies? Digital Research Methods in Fashion and Textile Studies presents the reader with a variety of digital methodologies to help build skills in searching for, analyzing, and discussing vintage design, photography, and writing on fashion, as well as historic and ethnographic dress and textile objects themselves. Each chapter focuses upon a different method, problem, or research site, including: - Maximalism and mixed-methods approaches to research - Searching large databases effectively - Pattern recognition and visual searching. - Critical reading, use, and citation of social media texts - Digital ethnography and shopping as research - Data visualization and mapping - Images in the public domain From advanced undergraduates and postgraduate students working on research projects to veteran professionals in fashion and textile history and beyond, everyone can benefit from a diverse set of fresh approaches to conducting and disseminating research. In the current age of instant gratification, with users snapping and posting images from runway shows long before the clothes will ever appear instores, the world of fashion is increasingly digital and fast-paced. Research on fashion is, too. Digital Research Methods in Fashion and Textile Studies will help you keep up in this rapidly changing world.
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• Introduction
• 1. Shanzhai Fashion: A Conjuncture Analysis of Precarious Creativity in China
• 2. Digital Labor in Shanzhai Fashion: Women Designers, Fashion Work, and Production Culture
• 3. The Shanzhai of Shanzhai: The Politics of Copying and Creativity
• 4. Shanzhai Dreams: Dangling the Chinese Dream
• 5. Shanzhai Culture, National Ideologies, Transnational Capitalism: A Double-edged Sword.
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'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the global market. Starting with mobile phones, now fashion brands are subverted in this way, with many women at the helm of design and production. Fashioning China looks at the women designers simultaneously subverting and reinforcing the nationalist-developmentalist, masculinist and technocratic dream of brands that are 'Made in China'. Broadening the digital labour debate beyond typical masculine and techno-utopic readings, Sara Liao studies the precarious practices of women trying to create sustainable and creative lives, vividly illustrating a fashion culture that exists online as a significant part of the digital economy. Drawing on material from interviews, participant observation, archives, policy documents, films and advertisements, Liao takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, charting out the politics of intellectual property rights, globalisation, technocracy, patriarchy and nationalism in a non-Western context.
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• Fashion History & Style
• Apparel
• Detail
• Accessories
• Textile
• Manufacturing
• Body & Beauty
• Measurement & Care
• Other

Fashionpedia is the ultimate fashion bible, containing thousands of fashion items for more efficient and productive brainstorming. Designed to be as visually driven as the people who use it, Fashionpedia contains thousands of fashion items, converting unapproachable technical terms on style, material and production into beautiful charts and infographics. Whether you're an industry insider or a fashion connoisseur, Fashionpedia is all you'll ever need to navigate the fashion scene.
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• Foreword by Miren Arzalluz * The Many Chanels by Olivier Saillard * The Early Days of the 'Artist of the Rue Gambon' by Sophie Grossiord * Freedom and Elegance on the Basque Coast by Miren Arzalluz * Sem and Chanel: Building an Identity by Laurent Cotta * The Dragonfly and the Bull by Claude Arnaud * Fashioning Flowers by Amy de la Haye * A Holistic Vision of Beauty by Julie Deydier * Chanel: The New Woman as Dandy by Caroline Evans * 'Bijoux des Diamants': The Glittering Triumph of Gabrielle Chanel by Marie-Laure Gutton * The Chanel Suit: The Shape of Freedom by Veronique Belloir * Chanel Accessories: The Building Blocks of Style by Marie-Laure Gutton * Chanel: The American Way by Alexandra Palmer * Gabrielle Chanel and Her Doubles by Sylvie Lecallier * Chanel and the Cinema: The Rules of the Game by Marion Langlois and Regis Robert * Chanel's Interiors by Laurent Cotta * A Chronology of Gabrielle Chanel * List of Exhibited Works.
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Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the Belle Epoque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, bobbed their hair, put them in bathing suits and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduced the little black dress; trousers for women; costume jewelry; the exquisitely comfortable suit that became her trademark. Early in the Roaring Twenties, Chanel made the first ever couture perfume - No. 5 - presenting it in the famous little square-cut flagon that, inspired by Picasso and Cubism, became the arch symbol of the Art Deco style. No. 5 remains the most popular scent ever created. This volume, published to accompany a landmark exhibition in Paris, traces the birth and evolution of Chanel's timeless style. Specially commissioned photographs by Julien T. Hamon showcase the clothing, while essays by fashion historians illuminate a period, an event or a theme. Rare archival documents, including portraits of Gabrielle Chanel herself, round out the book.
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Discover the exceptional artistry and rich traditions being kept alive by Japanese artisans in the twenty-first century.0In an era where global interest in handmade, small-batch products is heightening as a response to mass production, Handmade in Japan takes a look inside the workshops of the country's artisans, revealing their endless pursuit of excellence, and what it means to dedicate one's life to the stewardship of irreplaceable cultural heritage. International readers with an appreciation for handmade processes using sustainable materials will find inspiration in the exploration of craft ecosystems, such as the harvesting of natural lacquer in Iwate. Likewise, those who admire skill and beauty will enjoy discovering the lengths these makers go to in ensuring every product is perfect

Memos. A proposito della moda in questo millennio" vuole innescare una serie di riflessioni sulla moda contemporanea, sulle sue qualità e sui suoi attributi, attivandole a partire da quelle "Lezioni americane" che Italo Calvino avrebbe dovuto tenere nell'autunno del 1985 all'Università di Harvard, nell'ambito delle Charles Eliot Norton Poetry Lectures. Calvino morì improvvisamente nel settembre dello stesso anno, ma la moglie Esther decise di pubblicare le tracce scritte. Il titolo dato dallo scrittore era "Six memos for the next millennium". Così "Memos", parola incisiva e ampia, è titolo dell'esposizione. La rilettura di Calvino suscita oggi una domanda fondamentale: può la moda, in quanto industria culturale, sistema di comunicazione, territorio ricco, ibrido e problematico, essere considerata pratica produttivamente poetica, quindi naturalmente letteraria? "Memos" si propone così di costruire un 'discorso sul metodo', ovvero una riflessione sulla curatela delle mostre di moda e sulla sua capacità di gestire i diversi prodotti della moda stessa: non solo gli oggetti, ma anche le immagini e le parole. Nel volume che accompagna la mostra al Museo Poldi Pezzoli di Milano Maria Luisa Frisa riflette sulla pratica del fashion curating e concepisce il progetto come un dialogo tra diverse sensibilità: con Judith Clark per l'exhibition making e con Stefano Tonchi per il progetto visuale, che raccoglie le immagini scattate da Coppi Barbieri. Exhibition: Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy (21.02-04.05.2020)

• Acknowledgments
• 1. Michiana Connections: An Introduction
• 2. Education, Identity, and Vocational Habitus
• 3. The Michiana Aesthetic and the Collaborative Process of Wood Firing
• 4. Collection Practices: Maintaining the Aesthetic
• 5. More Than Pottery in Michiana-- More than Michiana in Pottery
• 6. The Potter's Social Life Epilogue: Constant Change
• Appendix I: Michiana Pottery Tour Maps
• Appendix II: Apprentices, Assistants, and/or Interns Works Cited Index.
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A new pottery tradition has been developing along the border of northern Indiana and southern Michigan. Despite the fact that this region is not yet an established destination for pottery collectors, Michiana potters are committed to pursuing their craft thanks to the presence of a community of like-minded artists. The Michiana Potters, an ethnographic exploration of the lives and art of these potters, examines the communal traditions and aesthetics that have developed in this region. Author Meredith A. E. McGriff identifies several shared methods and styles, such as a preference for wood-fired wares, glossy glaze surfaces, cooler colors, the dripping or layering of glazes on ceramics that are not wood-fired, the handcrafting of useful wares as opposed to sculptural work, and a tendency to borrow forms and decorative effects from other regional artists. In addition to demonstrating a methodology that can be applied to studies of other emergent regional traditions, McGriff concludes that these styles and methods form a communal bond that inextricably links the processes of creating and sharing pottery in Michiana.
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• Introduction-- Part I. Geometric Constructions:
• 1. Examples and basic folds--
• 2. Solving equations via folding--
• 3. Origami algebra--
• 4. Beyond classic origami-- Part II. The Combinatorial Geometry of Flat Origami:
• 5. Flat vertex folds: local properties--
• 6. Multiple-vertex flat folds: global properties--
• 7. Counting flat folds--
• 8. Other flat folding problems-- Part III. Algebra, Topology, and Analysis in Origami:
• 9. Origami homomorphisms--
• 10. Folding manifolds--
• 11. An analytic approach to isometric foldings-- Part IV. Non-Flat Folding:
• 12. Rigid origami--
• 13. Rigid foldings--
• 14. Rigid origami theory-- References-- Index.
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Origami, the art of paper folding, has a rich mathematical theory. Early investigations go back to at least the 1930s, but the twenty-first century has seen a remarkable blossoming of the mathematics of folding. Besides its use in describing origami and designing new models, it is also finding real-world applications from building nano-scale robots to deploying large solar arrays in space. Written by a world expert on the subject, Origametry is the first complete reference on the mathematics of origami. It brings together historical results, modern developments, and future directions into a cohesive whole. Over 180 figures illustrate the constructions described while numerous 'diversions' provide jumping-off points for readers to deepen their understanding. This book is an essential reference for researchers of origami mathematics and its applications in physics, engineering, and design. Educators, students, and enthusiasts will also find much to enjoy in this fascinating account of the mathematics of folding.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Lou Taylor and Marie McLoughlin
• 1. From Berlin to Paris Lou Taylor
• 2. The Lyon haute nouveaute fashion textile industry during World War Two: design, making, exhibition and diffusion Lou Taylor
• 3. The Impact of Shortages on Couture Fashion Accessories in Paris, 1940-44 Dominique Veillon
• 4. 'Much News from the Fashion Front' - Swedish Neutrality and the Diffusion of Paris Fashion during World War Two Ulrika Kyaga
• 5. From Paris to New York: the methods used by Paris haute couture to maintain its domination on the fashion world on both sides of the Atlantic, 1939-46, through women's magazines Sophie Kurkdjian
• 6. The Fashion worlds of Paris and the USA during World War Two: competition, contact and business, 1939-45 Sandra Stansbery Buckland
• 7. Lisbon as a centre of couture fashion in World War Two and its Paris and international connections Alexandra Gameiro and Lou Taylor
• 8. Fashion in Denmark in the 'Five Dark Years' Kirsten Toftegaard
• 9. The diffusion, reception and use of Paris style information by the press and haute couture salons in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1939-45 Claudia de Oliviera
• 10. Annexed, Neutral and Occupied - The Paris Influence on Couture Fashion in Austria, Switzerland and Belgium Lou Taylor
• 11.
• 1944: London plans to become the 'Meridian' of world fashion Marie McLoughlin
• 12. Paris Fashion: An international product for an international clientele Marie McLoughlin with post-script by Nancy Yeide
• 13. The business of Paris couture from Liberation to Rejuvenation. Late August 1944 to February 1947 Lou Taylor with Marie McLoughlin
• 14. The End of the War in Europe: Rejuvenating the International Business of Paris haute couture Lou Taylor with Marie McLoughlin Conclusion: Marie McLoughlin and Lou Taylor with post script: A Letter from Nuremberg, 1946, Lou Taylor Index.
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In 1939, fashion became an economic and symbolic sphere of great importance in France. Invasive textile legislation, rationing and threats from German and American couturiers were pushing the design and trade of Parisian style to its limits. It is widely accepted that French fashion was severely curtailed as a result, isolated from former foreign clients and deposed of its crown as global queen of fashion. This pioneering book offers a different story. Arguing that Paris retained its hold on the international haute couture industry right throughout WWII, eminent dress historians and curators come together to show that, amid political, economic and cultural traumas, Paris fashion remained very much alive under the Nazi occupation - and on an international level. Bringing exciting perspectives to challenge a familiar story and introducing new overseas trade links out of occupied France, this book takes us from the salons of renowned couturiers such as Edward Molyneux and Robert Piguet, French Vogue and Le Jardin des Modes and luxury Lyon silk factories, to Rio de Janeiro, Denmark and Switzerland, and the great American department stores of New York. Also comparing extravagant Paris occupation styles to austerity fashions of the UK and USA, parallel industrial and design developments highlight the unresolvable tension between luxury fashion and the everyday realities of wartime life. Showing that Paris strove to maintain world dominance as leader of couture through fashion journalism, photography and exported fashion forecasting, Paris Fashion and World War Two makes a significant contribution to the cultural history of fashion.
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The alarming level of greenhouse gases in the environment, fast depleting natural resources and the increasing level of industrial effluents, have made every single manufacturing activity come under the scrutiny of sustainability. When all kinds of waste such as clothes, furniture, carpets, televisions, shoes, paper, food wastes etc. end up in the landfill, only a few of them are naturally decomposed and thus a large majority remains as non-biodegradable. It is for this reason, efforts are concentrated to reduce the burden on earth by this waste, and as far as used textile products are concerned, there are now attempts to recycle or up-cycle. This book addresses the role of sustainability by using textile waste in fashion and textiles with respect to manufacturing, materials, as well as the economic and business challenges and opportunities it poses. This wide-ranging book comprises 19 chapters on the various topics including: - Solutions for sustainable fashion and textile industry - Agro and bio waste in the fashion industry - Innovating fashion brands by using textile waste - Waste in handloom textiles - Business paradigm shifting: 21st century fashion from recycling and upcycling - Utilization of natural waste for sustainable textile coloration - Circular economy in fashion and textile from waste - Future pathways of waste utilization for fashion - Sustainable encapsulation of natural dyes from Plant waste for textiles - Agro-waste applications for bio-remediation of textile effluent.
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The National Portrait Gallery, London, is home to an extensive collection of portraits representing people who have contributed to British history and culture, many of whom have also played an important role in fashion history. With an illustrated introductory text by Senior Curator of Photographs Magda Keaney on the role of fashion in the Gallery's collection, this book highlights the close links between fashion and portraiture. 100 Fashion Figures showcases fashion portraits held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.The sitters include historic and contemporary fashion icons, fashion musesand influential designers, in addition to portraits by notable fashion photographers, and some key works are accompanied by detailed captions. This concise publicationtells astory of fashion through works from the Gallery's collection. The succinct format will offer readers of this title a visually engaging insight into some of the most significant fashion portraits in the Gallery's collection, making it a well-suited addition to the growing series of 100 books including 100 Photographs and 100 Pioneering Women.
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• Part I: Anthropometry and garment sizing systems
• 1. New directions in the field of anthropometry, sizing and clothing fit
• 2. Anthropometric methods for apparel design
• 3. National size and shape surveys for apparel design
• 4. Developing apparel sizing system using anthropometric data: Body size and shape analysis, key dimensions and data segmentation
• 5. Apparel size designation and labelling Part II: Body measurement devices and techniques
• 6. Full body 3D scanners
• 7. Scanning technologies for 4D scanning, motion analysis Part III: Testing and evaluation of fit
• 8. Fabric, Seam and Design Applications in Developing Body Contouring Jeans
• 9. Evaluation of pattern block for fit testing Part IV: Designing for specific functions
• 10. Sizing and fit for swimwear
• 11. Sizing and fit for protective clothing
• 12. Sizing and fit for footwear
• 13. Sizing and fit for pressure garments
• 14. Sizing and fit for plus size men's and women's wear.
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Anthropometry, Apparel Sizing and Design, Second Edition, reviews techniques in anthropometry, sizing system developments, and their applications to clothing design. The book addresses the need for the improved characterization of population size, weights and the shapes of consumers. This new edition presents the very latest advances, and is expanded to include in-depth coverage of sizing and fit for specific groups and applications. Sections cover the development of sizing systems, classification and body types, the use of anthropometric data, body measurement devices and techniques, including 3D scanners for the full body and for particular body parts, 4D scanning technology and motion analysis. Additional sections cover testing and the evaluation of fit and anthropometric sizing systems for particular functions, thus reflecting the increasing need for apparel to meet specific needs, such as in swimwear, protective clothing, mobility, intimate apparel, footwear and compression garments. This book will be an essential reference source for apparel designers, manufacturers, retailers and merchandisers. Its detailed information and data will also be of great interest to researchers and postgraduate students across clothing technology, product design, fashion and textiles.
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