Search Results: Fashion, Costume, Beauty from Pistil Books Online

San Francisco: Lavolta Press, 1993. Oversize Paperback. Near Fine. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 8 1/2""w x 9 7/8""h. 338 pages. Black and white illustrations.

AllRights Reserved Publishing, 2007. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. Complete with separate ""Directory"" booklet of the artists featured in the book, silk bookmark. About 50 current fashion artists represented with several full color, full pages each.

New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. Oversize Hardback. Near Fine. XL. Sundsbo, Solve. Exhibition catalog in excellent condition with light scuffing/shelf wear to Skull / A. McQueen's face lenticular on chocolate brown cover only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 240 pages with hypnotic fake woodgrain illustrated endpapers. Filled with oversize full color full page photos of the clothing designs of the subject hanging on bruised mannequins. Sorta hot, if you like that kind ot thing. Arguably the most influential, imaginative, and provocative designer of his generation, Alexander McQueen both challenged and expanded fashion conventions to express ideas about race, class, sexuality, religion, and the environment. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty examines the full breadth of the designer's career, from the start of his fledgling label to the triumphs of his own… Read More

New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. Oversize Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. XL. Sundsbo, Solve. Exhibition catalog in excellent condition with light scuffing/shelf wear to Skull / A. McQueen's face lenticular on chocolate brown cover only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 240 pages with hypnotic fake woodgrain illustrated endpapers. Filled with oversize full color full page photos of the clothing designs of the subject hanging on bruised mannequins. Sorta hot, if you like that kind ot thing. Arguably the most influential, imaginative, and provocative designer of his generation, Alexander McQueen both challenged and expanded fashion conventions to express ideas about race, class, sexuality, religion, and the environment. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty examines the full breadth of the designer's career, from the start of his fledgling label to the triumphs of his own… Read More

Fairchild Publications, 1989. Oversize Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. XL. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Very slight edge wear to cover. 9""w x 12 1/4""h. 308 pages. Black and white illustrations.

M M H Ltd, 1998. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. XL. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 8 7/8""w x 10 1/4""h. 120 pages. Full-page color photos.

Victoria & Albert Museum, 1987. First Edition. Oversize Paperback. Very Good. Yapp, Patrick. Exhibition catalog published to coincide with the show held at the publisher's gallery from April 15 to June 14, 1987. Covers show light shelf wear only with some sunning at upper edge and page end edge. Previous owner's signatue and date on half title page. Printed endpapers. Text/interior is in Fine condition and filled with large format full color, often full page photos, prints, designs, fabric samples. Perfect bound, spine is intact and unblemished but appears somewhat fragile due to the age and size of the book. Shouldn't be handled roughly. ""Lavishly illustrated, this book shows how the Aschers united elements from the complex worlds of fabrics, art and fashion, providing fashion designers with a constant flow of inventive textiles from the immediate post-war years until today. Art for fabric, Zika Ascher's liason with artists in the later 1940s which produced a remarkable series of… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1979. First Edition. Oversize Paperback. Good. Clean and unmarked. 8 1/2""w x 11""h. Crease on cover. Brittle glue binding. Black and white line drawings (printed on one side of page only) of gender-bending and gay characters posing in their underclothes, awaiting finery. They are cocktail party guests - with Attitude. ""To have Attitude means to be able to project very directly one's opinions and feelings about one's own milieu to all viewers tih little more than a gesture, a stance, a look."" [from the author's introduction] First Edition.

Los Angeles: Elysium Growth Press, 1988. Oversize Hardback. Near Fine/Very Good. XL. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Tears on dust jacket. 8 1/2""w x 11 1/2""h. 208 pages. Many color illustrations.

Edinburgh: National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, 1979. Pamphlet. Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 56 pages. Many b&w photographs. 4 3/4""w x 7""h.

N Y: Penguin Studio, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. XL. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 240 pages. Edge wear to dust jacket. Many color photos. Chronicles the work of the author making sometimes outlandish window displays along with a list of practical tips of what to do and what not in working with fashion designers, models, dummies, etc.

London: Herbert Press Ltd, 1981. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 144 pages. 6 3/4""w x 9 1/4""h. ""Here is a descriptive and pictorial survey of American and British costume from the middle ages to the 20th century, which documents costume changes, not with the usual line drawings, but with over 150 reproductions of contemporary paintings, drawings, carvings, prints, and photographs, ranging from the 12th century illuminated manuscripts to fashion photographs of the 1930's.""

Erst Henri, Editeur-Libraire. Loose Leaf Binder. Very Good. (12) Loose leaf pages 10 x 12 1/2"" with tipped-in color plates depicting traditional costume, clothing, of the Alsace region in France with one page intro and a Table des Planches describing each plate being a reproduction of an illustration created between 1680 and 1863, with most being in the early 1800's. Ex-library material, the intro pages (2) have library markings on them, the pages and the plates themselves are unmarked. Unbound in a hardcover string-tied folder made by the library. Pages are age-toned at edges a few of the pages have a torn corner or a dog-ear, the plates are all in excellent condition and unmarred in any way. No publication date, circa 1930. Text is in French

Thames & Hudson: Editions De La Martiniere, 2014. Oversize Paperback. Very Good. XL. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 184 pages. Many color illustrations.

N Y: Assouline, 2005. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 80 pages. 6 3/8""w x 8 3/4""h. Part of the ""Universe of Fashion"" series. Many color photos.

Hull, Quebec, Canada: Canadian Mus of Civilization, 1995. Ex Library. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 137 pages with many illustrations. For the NLaka'pamux of the southern British Columbia Interior, the art of dress and adornment has been an act of aesthetic, social and religious significance. Using a technology developed over thousands of years, people sewed tanned skins and wove cedar, willow, lichen and Indian-hemp to make their garments. Colourful feathers, seeds and shells were used as decoration. Images drawn with paints and dyes reflected their dreams, visions and life experiences. With the arrival of European traders, NLaka'pamux clothing style quickly changed to adopt new materials and fashions. Yet, the skills needed to produce traditional clothing and the knowledge of its symbolic importance continued and are still taught in NLaka'pamux communities today.… Read More

Laurence King, 2015. Oversize Paperback. Very Good. XL. Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Book shows light wear only with creaseless covers and spine. Impressive 312 page compilation of outrageous fashion from around the world displayed in large, full color prints featuring some 70+ current and past fashion designers. Highly entertaining with short bios/statements from the subjects.

Japan: Gap Collections / Gap Japan, 1991. Oversize Paperback. Very Good. XL. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 10""w x 14 1/4""h. Filled with color fashion photos. 346 pages.

N Y: Ridge Press / Grosset & Dunlop, 1971. Oversize Hardback. Near Fine/Very Good. XL. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full purple cloth boards. Light wear and small tears to dust jacket. 8 1/2""w x 11""h. 252 pages. Many illustrations.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Theatre Arts Books, 1974. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 334 pages. Many b&w line drawings. Crease on spine. Bookplate inside.