The Belgian designer Dries van Noten was first spotted in 1986 when he exhibited in London as part of the "Antwerp Six". His highly individual collections for men, women and children are now successful worldwide. This work pays tribute to Van Noten, an artist with fabric, colour and print, demonstrating how his multicultural blend of imagery combines the modern with the exotic, the romantic with the realistic, and the beautiful with the challenging.

Dries Van Noten : Shape, Print and Fabric

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Tucker, Andrew

Crafts & Hobbies

Thames&Hudson

\The vagaries of fashion throughout the ages are a source of endless interest, not only as indication of our infinite capacity for invention, but also because of the relationship of costume to shifting cultural patterns. Laver presents in this classic study the underlying motives of fashion as well as a survey of the history of costume. He describes the means which have been adopted to satisfy the three functions of clothes: protection, expression of the personality by sartorial display, and attractiveness to others. The momentous invention of the needle (some 40,000 years ago), making possible the sewing together of pelts, and the subsequent introduction of weaving, launched the development of costume as we know it. All the major historical landmarks -- the Renaissance, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the emancipation of women, the two world wars -- wrought profound changes in attitudes to dress: with matchless skill and panache Laver related the development of costume and fashion to these social changes. A new final chapter by Christina Probert brings the history up to the present day [sic] with a detailed discussion of the enormous variety of postwar styles, including the New Look, the mini, and punk-influenced clothes. James Laver (1899-1975) was keeper of the Departments of Prints and Drawings and of Paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from 1938 until 1959. He was also an important and pioneering fashion historian described as “the man in England who made the study of costume respectable”. Laver is perhaps best remembered for his contributions to the field of fashion history, an interest in which emerged through a desire to date images accurately through the clothing depicted within. Laver defined the relationships between dress design and other applied arts, and discussed the influence of economic and social factors upon the development of fashionable taste.

Costume and Fashion: A Concise History (World of Art)

Arts & Photography

De LA Haye, Amy

LAVER, James

Graphic Design

Sams Teach Yourself Windows Ce Programming in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself Windows CE Programming in 24 Hours is a step-by-step tutorial that teaches you how to create fully functioning Windows CE applications. The material is presented in a focused, easy to follow manner. Topics covered include standard controls for CE devices, HTML Viewer control, working with icons, fonts, and graphics, persistent storage, threading, serial communications, WinSock, and WinInet, printing, CE Mail, power and system resource management, and debugging.

Sams Teach Yourself Windows CE Programming in 24 Hours

Computers & Technology

Nottingham, Jason P.

Makofsky, Steven

Corporation, Bsquare

Operating Systems

Sams.

Fashion a Crash Course

Watson-Guptil

Looks at the history of fashion and discusses critical personalities, trends, and important influences on fashion.

Fashion (A Crash Course)

Kingswell, Tamsin

Watson/Guptill

The Belgian designer Dries van Noten was first spotted in 1986 when he exhibited in London as part of the "Antwerp Six". His highly individual collections for men, women and children are now successful worldwide. This work pays tribute to Van Noten, an artist with fabric, colour and print, demonstrating how his multicultural blend of imagery combines the modern with the exotic, the romantic with the realistic, and the beautiful with the challenging.

Dries Van Noten: Shape, Print, and Fabric (Cutting Edge)

Since the swinging Sixties, London has been known as the world's hub of inspirational, cutting-edge fashion design. The last ten years in particular have seen an unmatched flowering of creative talents, with a host of young designers springing up to join the big names. What is it about London that makes it such a hotbed of creativity? The London Fashion Book has the answer. Focusing both on the catwalk and behind the scenes, here unfolds a vast panorama of talents from Vivienne Westwood, Paul Smith, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, Katharine Hamnett, and Zandra Rhodes to edgy, up-and-coming designers including Julien MacDonald, Hussein Chalayan, Owen Gaster, and Antonio Bevardi. And where would these be without London's hatters (Philip Treacy), shoemake (Patrick Cox and Manolo Blahnik), designers of scarves (Georgina von Etzdorf), and jewelers? This book tells all from who's at the top of their field, to what got them there, to where to find their creations. Illustrated with hundreds of pictures by some of Britain's finest fashion photographers and illustrator, The London Fashion Book visits the cognoscenti's favorite haunts and dishes up London fashion's heroes and heroines, model-divas, muses, partygoers, and poseurs- everyone who contributes to the buzz, the electricity, that makes London the envied epicenter of the world of style.

London Fashion Book

Rizzoli

Combining current theory and original fieldwork, Queer Visibilities explores the gap between liberal South African law and the reality for groups of queer men living in Cape Town. Explores the interface between queer sexuality, race, and urban space to show links between groups of queer men Focuses on three main 'population groups' in Cape Town white, coloured, and black Africans Discusses how HIV remains a key issue for queer men in South Africa Utilizes new research data the first comprehensive cross-community study of queer identities in South Africa

Queer Visibilities: Space, Identity and Interaction in Cape Town

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Wiley/Blackwell

Combining current theory and original fieldwork, Queer Visibilities explores the gap between liberal South African law and the reality for groups of queer men living in Cape Town. 
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<li> Explores the interface between queer sexuality, race, and urban space to show links between groups of queer men </li> <li>Focuses on three main 'population groups' in Cape Town―white, coloured, and black Africans</li> <li>Discusses how HIV remains a key issue for queer men in South Africa</li> <li>Utilizes new research data―the first comprehensive cross-community study of queer identities in South Africa</li> </ul>

Queer Visibilities: Space, Identity and Interaction in Cape Town (RGS-IBG Book Series)

Fashion (Crash Course)

Raincoast Book Dist Ltd

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