The World of Coco Chanel - Friends Fashion Fame by Edmonde Charles-Roux
$78.00 NZD
Category: Fashion & Design | Reading Level: very good
Chanel went everywhere and knew everyone and, as this sumptuously illustrated volume clearly shows, her life and accomplishment - even her chronic failure in love - constitute one of the great stories of the modern age. Her life is eminently suited to the lavish visual treatment of this handsome volume, ...Show more
Our Rainbow Queen by Sali Hughes
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fashion & Design
This riotously colourful book takes a photographic journey through Queen Elizabeth II?s ten decades of colour-blocked style. The photographs, which span the colours of the rainbow and a century of style, are gloriously accessorised with captions and commentary by journalist and broadcaster Sali Hughes. ...Show more
For the Love of Bags by SANDRA SEMBURG
$29.99 NZD
$140.00 (78% off)
Category: Fashion & Design
Women love handbags because they are a perfect vehicle-not just for keys, credit cards, and lipstick, but also their dreams and desires. Luxury labels made the humble purse into a billion-dollar business in the 20th century, but it is more than just a status symbol. Because it is constantly being reinve ...Show more
Three Birds Renovations: 400+ renovation and styling secrets revealed by Bonnie Hindmarsh, Erin Cayless, Lana Taylor
$45.00 NZD
Category: Fashion & Design | Reading Level: 6 Craft
Australia's most fabulous renovators reveal their secrets! The Three Birds are best friends and busy mums who ditched their corporate careers to renovate houses, now with massive instagram and youtube followings for their design and reno techniques.When best friends Erin, Bonnie and Lana ditched ...Show more
Cotton by Beverly Lemire
$59.99 NZD
Category: Fashion & Design | Series: Textiles That Changed the World
This book explores the fascinating history and present-day practices associated with cotton. This is a story of commercial and cultural enterprise, of the ties and tensions between East and West, of technological and industrial revolution, social modernization, colonialism and slavery. Cotton's history ...Show more
Ballets Russes Style: Diaghilev's Dancers and Paris Fashion by Mary E. Davis
$59.99 NZD
Category: Fashion & Design
In the decades between its debut performance in Paris in 1909 and the death of impresario Sergei Diaghilev in 1929, the Ballets Russes was an unrivalled sensation not only in France but in London, New York and the other cities it toured. Attention has often been centred on the links between Diaghilev's ...Show more
Little Black Dress by Isabel Sanchez Hernandez
$75.00 NZD
Category: Crafts & Hobbies
In 1926, Coco Chanel designed the little black dress; it was hugely versatile for many different occasions and continued to be fashionable year after year with simple amendments and different accessories keeping it up to date. Nearly 90 years later, the little black dress is still a wardrobe essential a ...Show more
The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume by Tilar J. Mazzeo
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fashion & Design | Series: P. S. Ser.
With its rich golden hue, art deco-inspired bottle, and timeless, musky scent, Chanel Number 5 is the world's bestselling perfume. Reverently known among industry insiders as "le monstre" - the monster - it is arguably the most coveted consumer luxury product of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. ...Show more
Timeless Makeup by Rae Morris
$49.99 NZD
Category: Fashion & Design
In Timeless Makeup, leading international makeup artist Rae Morris shows you how to create a classic, ageless look that will enhance your best features, regardless of your age. Full of fabulous looks for day and evening, complete with step-by-step photographs and clear instructions on how to achieve the ...Show more
Harris Tweed: From Land to Street by Lara Platman
$83.99 NZD
Category: Fashion & Design
Harris Tweed is a unique woollen textile that has been hand-woven by islanders off the west coast of Scotland for generations. Worn worldwide, it is cherished both for the clothing made from it and as a fascinating traditional craft. Lara Platman spent a year with the farmers, mill workers, weavers, tai ...Show more
Max Factor: The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World by Fred E. Basten
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Nice women never wore makeup. Even the word was taboo in polite society - until Max Factor entered the scene. Born in Poland in 1877, Factor worked as a beautician for the Russian royal family, the Romanovs. In 1904, he fled to America, where he opened a cosmetics store in Los Angeles. Creating makeup o ...Show more
The Little Black Book of Style by Nina Garcia
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fashion & Design
A Fashion Director at "Elle" magazine, Nina Garcia knows trends and that balancing the classics with the trends is what style is all about. "The Little Black Book of Style" provides the essential rules for fashion that every woman should know. From definite fashion faux-pas to pointers on how to create ...Show more