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Author
Publication Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Cindy loves shoes. As a fashion-obsessed plus-size woman, she can never find designer clothes that work on her body, but a special pair of shoes always fits just right. With a shiny new design degree but no job in sight, Cindy moves back in with her stepmother, Erica Tremaine, the executive producer of the world's biggest dating reality show. When a contestant on Before Midnight bows out at the last minute, Cindy is thrust into the spotlight. Showcasing...
2) Beach colors
Author
Publication Date
2012
Language
English
Description
While renowned designer Margaux Sullivan was presenting her highly praised collection during New York City's Fashion Week, her husband was cleaning out their bank account. A week after he disappeared, the bank foreclosed on Margaux's apartment and business.
Designer Margaux Sullivan's husband cleaned out their bank account; a week later the bank foreclosed on her apartment and business. She returns to the small coastal town of Crescent Cove, Connecticut,...
Author
Publisher
Core Library
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map.
Language
English
Description
Presents an overview of the history of women in the fashion industry, covering the first women to break into the industry and popularize it, like Vera Wang, Coco Chanel, and Kendall Jenner. Includes a glossary.
4) First sight
Author
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
Description
New York. London. Milan. Paris. Fashion Week in all four cities. A month of endless interviews, parties, and unflagging work and attention to detail at the ready to wear fashion shows twice a year. At the center of the storm is American Timmie O'Neill, whose renowned line, Timmie O, is the embodiment of casual chic in fashion and for the home. She has created a business that inspires, fills, and consumes her life. With an unerring instinct for what...
Author
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Antoinette and Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel know they're destined for something better. Abandoned by their family at a young age, they've grown up under the guidance of nuns preparing them for simple lives as the wives of tradesmen or shopkeepers. At night, their secret stash of romantic novels and magazine cutouts beneath the floorboards are all they have to keep their dreams of the future alive. The walls of the convent can't shield them forever, and...
Author
Publisher
Orion Books
Publication Date
2011, c2010
Physical Desc
279 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lucy Streeter, a single mother and fashion designer, has never been much of a risk-taker. But when an enigmatic fortune teller informs Lucy that her life is coming to an end, she races against the clock to squeeze a lifetime of fulfillment into just four days.
Author
Publisher
Bella Luna Press
Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xxii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"As the face of her eponymous couture bridal business, Erin Cole radiates refined elegance. But the designer's glamorous lifestyle and sweeping success belie a childhood marked by profound dysfunction. Raised on a steady diet of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and death, no one would have expected Cole to go on to become a force in the fashion world. As a child, she often had no access to food; other times she was force-fed until she vomited. At home...
8) Iris
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look into the life of fashion icon Iris Apfel, and her husband of over 60 years: the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven with an outsized presence on the New York & Palm Beach fashion scenes. Despite the abundance of glamour in her current life, Iris continues to embrace the values and work ethic established during a middle-class Queens upbringing during the Great Depression.
Author
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Maya Jackson has worked for Laura Whitcomb, Inc, a renowned New York City bridal gown brand for years and dreams of becoming Head Designer. She has the talent, she just needs a chance to showcase her unique style. Due to an illness, she's always prioritized her career over her personal life until Maya's father fractures his hip and she returns to Charleston, SC. While home for only a few months, she's thrilled to find an opportunity at the local...
Author
Publication Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"When Ivory Keene landed a job at a prestigious fashion house in New York, she could never have anticipated the challenges and excitement her new position would provide. Chief among them is her exasperatingly sexy boss, Curry Kells.The older, experienced executive can't help but be drawn to Ivory by a desire neither can resist. He sees only a talented young woman whose fresh, exciting designs might just make them both millions. But he soon discovers...
Author
Publisher
Dey St
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
312 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A sweeping biography of one of the most influential and controversial legends of late twentieth-century fashion, an iconic designer whose colorful creations, including the "wrap dress," captured the modern feminist spirit.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
328 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Claire McCardell forever changed fashion-and most importantly, the lives of women. She shattered cultural norms around women's clothes, and today much of what we wear traces back to her ingenious, rebellious mind. McCardell invented ballet flats and mix-and-match separates, and she introduced wrap dresses, hoodies, leggings, denim, and more into womenswear. She tossed out corsets in favor of a comfortably elegant look and insisted on pockets, even...
14) My journey
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Publication Date
2015.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Publication Date
2014
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to dress. We chase fads, choose inappropriate materials and unattractive cuts, and waste energy tottering in heels when we could be moving gracefully. Quite simply, we lack the fashion know-how we need to dress professionally and flatteringly. As historian and expert dressmaker Linda Przybyszewski reveals in The Lost Art of Dress, it wasn't always like this....
Author
Publication Date
2025
Language
English
Description
"After working as head designer for Oscar de la Renta, Eugenia Ward started her own company when she turned forty, fourteen years ago. She is now a major name in evening gowns and wedding gowns, ready-to-wear and haute couture. But with the fashion business in major downturn, she has recently suffered heavy losses, and Eugenia desperately needs new investors--and new ideas. At the same time, she is the matriarch and guiding light for her five adult...
Author
Publisher
Integrity Publishers
Publication Date
c2005
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The first novel in the Spa Girls Collection, She's All That, focuses on Lilly Jacobs, a San Francisco fashion designer determined that her "bad hair" is the root source of her problems"--Provided by publisher.
19) A certain smile
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Publication Date
1999
Physical Desc
301 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Maddie Goldbloom stitched up a plan to ensure everything in her life was perfect--from a career in fashion to a chic NYC apartment to a pediatrician boyfriend. When her ex, Chase Black, storms back into her life with an outrageous request, her immediate reaction is to refuse him. But he only wants to fulfill his father's last wish. So even though he's the man who broke her heart, playing his fianc©♭e shouldn't be hard, especially if it means she...

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