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Face Forward
by Kevyn Aucoin
Face Forward is a cosmetics book written by Kevyn Aucoin. It was a New York Times bestseller. Aucoin's portrait subjects inlcude Julia Roberts, Sharon Stone, Martha Stewart, Tori Amos and Aucoin's own mother. Little, Brown reported a 275,000-copy first printing (compared to 164,000 for his last book, Making Faces), and the publishing company had already ordered three more press runs by the end of the month, for a total of 425,000 copies.
A Handweaver's Pattern Book
by Marguerite Porter Davison
Originally published in 1944.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 203-212.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 203-212.
Perfumes
by Luca/ Sanchez, Tania Turin
Pompous names, bizarre ads, hundreds of new scents a year?the multibillion-dollar business of fragrance has long resisted understanding. At last the first critical?and critically acclaimed?guide to perfume illuminates the mysteries of this secretive industry. Lifelong perfume fanatics Luca Turin (best known as the subject of Chandler Burr?s The Emperor of Scent) and Tania Sanchez exalt, wisecrack, and scold through their reviews with passion, eloquence, and erudition, making this book a must-have for...
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20,000 Years Of Fashion
by Francois Boucher
CONTENTS
Introduction. Prehistoric costume. Races and civilizations -- Trade in prehistoric times -- Prehistoric costume -- Comparative study of prehistoric costume -- Notes, chronology and bibliography --
Costume in the Ancient East. General conditions -- Costume in the valleys and plains -- Sumerian costume -- Costume in Babylon and Assyria -- Survivals of the Kaunakès -- Costume in the coastal countries (Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabia) -- Costume in the mountain countries (Cappadocia, Armenia,... Read more about this item
Introduction. Prehistoric costume. Races and civilizations -- Trade in prehistoric times -- Prehistoric costume -- Comparative study of prehistoric costume -- Notes, chronology and bibliography --
Costume in the Ancient East. General conditions -- Costume in the valleys and plains -- Sumerian costume -- Costume in Babylon and Assyria -- Survivals of the Kaunakès -- Costume in the coastal countries (Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabia) -- Costume in the mountain countries (Cappadocia, Armenia,... Read more about this item
From the Neck Up
by Denise Dreher
For the past thirty years, From the Neck Up: An Illustrated Guide to Hatmaking has been the bible of hatmaking for milliners working in theater, film and entertainment. It is the most complete and unique book on millinery to date. It can be used as a method of self instruction, as a classroom textbook or as a reference guide. All of the hatmaking techniques are explained step-by-step and clearly illustrated by more than four hundred photographs and drawings. Professional millinery supplies, methods,...
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The History Of Beads
by Lois Sherr Dubin
Previous ed.: New York: Harry N. Abrams; London: Thames & Hudson, 1995.
A Thousand Days Of Magic
by Oleg Cassini
Oleg Cassini has designed for such legendary twentieth-century icons as Rita Hayworth, Grace Kelly, and Marilyn Monroe. He is the author of In My Own Fashion
Thing Of Beauty
by Stephen Fried
At age seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father's Philadelphia luncheonette, Hoagie City. Within a year, Gia was one of the top models of the late 1970's, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at New York's Studio 54 and the Mudd Club, and redefining the industry's standard of beauty. She was the darling of moguls and movie stars, royalty and rockers. Gia was also a girl in pain, desperate for her mother's approval—and a drug addict on a tragic slide toward...
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