Christian Dior caused a worldwide sensation in 1947, in a Paris still groping to recover from the devastation of wartime occupation. Reintroducing the flowing, ankle-length skirt, Dior gave women back their long-lost sense of freedom, femininity, and 'joie de vivre'. Dior's collection with its pinched waist and generous folds of fabric, was dubbed the 'New Look' by the press, and he was crowned 'The King of Fashion'. He immediately re-established Paris as the centre of the fashion world and for the next thirty years the House of Dior played host to aristocracy, stars of stage and film, and glitterati from around the world.The Duchess of Windsor, Olivia de Havilland, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Ingrid Bergman, were just a few of the famous names that graced its corridors. Dior's daily inspiration emanated from the world of the intellectual and artistic elite, in which he moved with such people as Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Henry Suguet, Jean Cocteau, and Raoul Dufy. With elegance, precision, and impeccable research, Marie-France Pochna recreates this one-of-a-kind world of glamour and situates Dior's fairy-tale career in the rich tapestry of Paris' cultural life.
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• Remerciements
• Préface / Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres
• Préface / François Baroin
• À fleur de peau, à fleur d'œil : pour une nouvelle histoire du nu / Emmanuel Coquery
• De l'homme à la femme : le bas avant 1850 / Muriel Barbier
• Les Riches heures du bas : 1850-1914 / Muriel Barbier
• La Danse ou la jambe publique / Emmanuel Coquery
• La Femme publique / Emmanuel Coquery
• Le Nu intime / Emmanuel Coquery
• Le Bas découvert : 1820-1960 / Marie-Laure Gutton
• Le Nu habillé ou les dessous de l'art / Emmanuel Coquery
• De la terre au ciel : le bas comme attribut érotique / Emmanuel Coquery
• Au-delà de l'éros : le nu décomposé / Emmanuel Coquery
• Le Crépuscule du bas? 1965-2006 / Marie-Laure Gutton
• Chantal Thomass / Marie-Laure Gutton
• "Toile d'araignée" et "fumée d'encens" : le bas dans la littérature / Anne-Sophie Mongion
• Au fil de la technique : le bas dans l'ère industrielle / Muriel Barbier et Marie-Laure Gutton
• Glossaire / Muriel Barbier
• Notes -- Liste des œuvres exposées.

• Designing for fabrication
• Virtual meets physical
• 2D & 3D modifications
• Parametric transformations
• Moving parts and large structures
• Resources.

Design, DIY, and computer-controlled fabrication are a powerful combination for making high-quality customized things. Written by the founders of the architecture, design, and research firm Filson and Rohrbacher, this book takes you through the basics of CNC fabrication, the design process, production, and construction of your own furniture designs. Through their AtFAB series of projects, accompanied by an overview of digital techniques and design thinking, this book introduces the knowledge and skills that you'll find widely applicable across all kinds of CNC projects. Not only will you learn how to design, fabricate, and assemble a wide range of projects, you'll have some great furniture to show for it! While 3D printing has been grabbing headlines, high school, college, library, and other public makerspaces have been making things with CNC machines. With a CNC router, you can cut parts from strong, tactile, durable materials like wood. Once you have your design and material, you can set up your job and let it run. When it's done, you can put the project together for an heirloom of your own. While 3D printing can make exciting things with complex designs, CNCs are the digital workhorses that produce large-scale, long-lasting objects.
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• Les mondes intérieurs / Olivier Flaviano
• Inspirations asiatiques : tenue, tournure, matières / Sophie Makariou
• La couture et l'exotisme au XXe siècle / Catherine Join-Diéterle
• L'Asie rêvée d'Yves Saint Laurent / Aurélie Samuel
• Inde
• L'influence indienne, un leitmotiv / Leslie Veyrat
• Le tailleur et le flou de l'Inde / Aurélie Samuel
• Se vêtir de fleurs et de jardins : le motif floral en Inde / Amina Taha-Hussein Okada
• Chine
• La Chine dans l'oeuvre d'Yves Saint Laurent / Laurence Neveu
• La Chine rêvée d'Yves Saint Laurent / Hélène Gascuel
• Fleurs de Chine dans les créations d'Yves Saint Laurent / Antoine Gournay
• Opium
• Yves est Opium / Jéromine Savignon
• Opium, le succès d'une fragrance scandaleuse et fantasmée / Lola Fournier
• Japon
• Le Japon dans les collections d'Yves Saint Laurent / Domitille Éblé
• Yves Saint Laurent et le kimono / Akiko Fukai
• Les iris d'Yves Saint Laurent / Kenzo Takada.

""J'ai abordé tous les pays par le rêve. Il me suffit de regarder un très beau livre sur l'inde pour dessiner comme si j'y avais été. C'est le rôle de l'imaginaire." Yves saint Laurent"--Page 4 of cover.

"Entre les années 1860 et 196o, la haute couture française a donné le "la" de la mode dans le monde. Derrière de poétiques façades, ce sont en fait de puissantes structures productives qu'abritaient les maisons parisiennes. En se distinguant aux yeux de la clientèle des grands magasins de leur temps comme des boutiques sans mécènes ou capitaux, les maisons de couture ont été les héritières des fournisseurs des cours. En inventant l'idée d'une exception, d'une aura et d'une excellence artistique singulières, elles ont su développer un univers portant au rêve, au croisement néanmoins d'enjeux artisanaux, industriels et commerciaux. Pour la première fois, il nous est donné de retracer un siècle d'histoire de la haute couture parisienne. Le tissu et la façon, le design de la marque, les métiers d'art, le luxe, la question de la cliente sont quelques-uns des thèmes passionnants qui sont abordés ici. C'est un peu de l'atmosphère des maisons de couture qui se dégage ainsi des pages de ce livre. Et les pièces du musée Galliera d'être révélées clans ce qu'elles ont d'unique, surprises clans leur intimité par la sensibilité photographique de Katerina Jebb."--P. [4] of cover.

• The impossible wardrobe
• Eternity dress
• Cloakroom vestiaire obligatoire.

"This lavish three-book set presents the three performance pieces that spanned a period of three years. In The Impossible Wardrobe (2012), Swinton walks down a runway with a selection of historically and culturally significant garments from the past 200 years. In Eternity Dress (2013), a garment is tailor-made in front of a live audience. And in the third performance in the series, Cloakroom (2014), Swinton examines the special relationship between an item of clothing and its owner. A glorious ode to fashion, Impossible Wardrobes presents and elevates couture to a veritable art form."--Publisher's website.

Mountain Homespun will be of special interest to those studying southern Appalachian handicrafts, the 1890s handicraft revival, and northern Protestant missionary work in turn-of-the-century Appalachia. - North Carolina Historical Review ""Mountain Homespun is much more than a memoir. It offers unrivaled specific information on the processes of mountain crafts- not only on weaving, spinning, and dyeing, the author's primary interest, but also on basketry, quilting, and other pursuits. All in all, the book is an important publishing event."" - Berea College Newsletter ""This is a wonderful book. It belongs at the bedside of every spinner and weaver everywhere."" - Jude Daurelle, Handwoven.
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Mountain Homespun will be of special interest to those studying southern Appalachian handicrafts, the 1890s handicraft revival, and northern Protestant missionary work in turn-of-the-century Appalachia. - North Carolina Historical Review ""Mountain Homespun is much more than a memoir. It offers unrivaled specific information on the processes of mountain crafts- not only on weaving, spinning, and dyeing, the author's primary interest, but also on basketry, quilting, and other pursuits. All in all, the book is an important publishing event."" - Berea College Newsletter ""This is a wonderful book. It belongs at the bedside of every spinner and weaver everywhere."" - Jude Daurelle, Handwoven.
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• Introduction * India * China * Opium * Japan.
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Asia has long fascinated European artists. The gradual arrival of art objects and textiles from the Orient were inexhaustible sources of inspiration for painters, sculptors and of course couturiers. Yves Saint Laurent was no exception. He proposed both a literal and imaginary vision of Asia, based on a solid knowledge of its history, culture and arts, as evidenced by his personal library and the collection of works of art that he brought together with Pierre Berge. Yves Saint Laurent's exhibition Dreams of the Orient brings together some fifty models, accompanied by original drawings, jewelry and Asian objects that will demonstrate the process of creating clothes while establishing a visual link with their sources of inspiration. Objects from the Musee Guimet in Paris (Asian Arts Museum) and the Samuel Myers collection will be on display alongside the designer's creations.
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