A Dedicated Follower of Fashion
Author: Holly Brubach
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 1999-10-19
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780714838878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of incisive essays on clothing and the fashion industry.
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Blue Cat 8. Kl. Reader
Author: Aase Brick-Hansen
Publisher: Gyldendal Uddannelse
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9788700282582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLast of the Dandies
Author: Nick Foulkes
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2014-02-04
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 1466864451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom his first appearance in London in 1821 until his death in Paris in 1852, Count D'Orsay dominated and scandalized the whole of European society. For three decades he was the ultimate arbiter in matters of taste, style and fashion -- what D'Orsay wore today, society would wear tomorrow. He also enthralled Society with the thirty-year soap opera of his relationship with Lady Blessington, whose daughter he married and with whose husband he was suspected of having had an affair. Bisexual, flamboyant and outrageous, D'Orsay was said to have ruined the cream of British aristocracy. He toured Europe on an enormous spending spree; paid homage to a dying Lord Byron in Italy, set up a racing course in Notting Hill and a gambling den in St James's. Nick Foulkes' Last of the Dandies is a vivid biography of an astonishingly flamboyant figure and a dazzling portrait of an era.
The Memory of Clothes
Author: Robyn Gibson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-02-03
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9462099537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce hanging static in a wardrobe or folded away in a trunk, in recent times clothes have found themselves thrown into the spotlight. The crowds that are drawn to large scale fashion exhibitions staged with increasing frequency in galleries and museums around the world offer glimpses into the meaning that we attach to these items of clothing. Apart from their aesthetic value, clothes have the ability to evoke issues of identity, of the relation of self to body and self to the world. We are able to find ourselves through the experiences of delving into our wardrobes and remembering. Clothes are thus layered with meaning since they have the power to act as memory prompts. Woven into their fabric are traces of past experiences; stitched into their seams are links to people we have loved and lost. Viewed as visual objects, clothing is not frivolous, flippant or foolish. In telling and talking about clothes, we reveal much about ourselves, our lives and the experiences that we drape around our bodies. Whether bought or handmade, passed down or reconstructed, clothes help us to construct meaning as we remember those things in our lives that matter.
Vintage Luxury Fashion
Author: Daniella Ryding
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-03-27
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 3319719858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding a critical insight into the growth of the secondhand luxury and vintage fashion industry, this book offers a compendium of business developments from across the globe, including examples from Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The ‘pre-loved or pre-owned’ clothing trade has grown as an economic entity, providing a living for over 100,000 people and creating a desirable and essential clothing source in under-developed economies. By debating and deliberating contemporary cases, the authors illustrate how companies can optimise key managerial activities surrounding product branding, location marketing and supply chain buying. This timely collection is an important read for anyone involved in fashion, but particularly those interested in the retail and marketing perspective of the industry, as it explores an emerging and significant retail format.
Ray Davies
Author: Thomas M. Kitts
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-01-23
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 113586795X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRay Davies: Not Like Everybody Else is a critical biography of Ray Davies, with a focus on his music and his times. The book studies Davies’ work from the Kinks’ first singles through his 2006 solo album, from his rock musicals in the early 1970s to his one-man stage show in the 1990s, and from his films to his autobiography. Based on interviews with his closest associates, as well as studies of the recordings themselves, this book creates the most thorough picture of Davies’ work to date. Kitts situates Davies’ work in the context of the British Invasion and the growth of rock in the '60s and '70s, and in the larger context of English cultural history. For fans of rock music and the music of the Kinks, this book is a must have. It will finally place this legendary innovator in the pantheon of the great rock artists of the past half-century. Thomas M. Kitts, Professor of English and Chair of the Division of English/Speech at St. John’s University, NY, is the co-editor of Living on a Thin Line: Crossing Aesthetic Borders with The Kinks, the author of The Theatrical Life of George Henry Boker, articles on American literature and popular culture, reviews of books, CDs, and performances, and a play Gypsies. He is the book review editor of Popular Music and Society and the editor of The Mid-Atlantic Almanack.
The People’s Songs
Author: Stuart Maconie
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2013-06-06
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 140903318X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to. Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have sound tracked our changing times, and – just sometimes – changed the way we feel. Beginning with Vera Lynn’s ‘We’ll Meet Again’, a song that reassured a nation parted from their loved ones by the turmoil of war, and culminating with the manic energy of ‘Bonkers’, Dizzee Rascal’s anthem for the push and rush of the 21st century inner city, The People’s Songs takes a tour of our island’s pop music, and asks what it means to us. This is not a rock critique about the 50 greatest tracks ever recorded. Rather, it is a celebration of songs that tell us something about a changing Britain during the dramatic and kaleidoscopic period from the Second World War to the present day. Here are songs about work, war, class, leisure, race, family, drugs, sex, patriotism and more, recorded in times of prosperity or poverty. This is the music that inspired haircuts and dance crazes, but also protest and social change. The companion to Stuart Maconie’s landmark Radio 2 series, The People’s Songs shows us the power of ‘cheap’ pop music, one of Britain’s greatest exports. These are the songs we worked to and partied to, and grown up and grown old to – from ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ to ‘Rehab', ‘She Loves You’ to ‘Star Man’, ‘Dedicated Follower of Fashion’ to ‘Radio Ga Ga’.
Great Songs for the 5-String Banjo
Author: Wise Publications
Publisher: Wise Publications
Published: 2016-07-11
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 1783232927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe distinctive sound of the 5-string banjo is most usually associated with folk, country and bluegrass music… but this instrument can sound at home in lots of popular genres. The beach Boys are one example who used the Banjo extensively throughout their landmark album Pet Sounds. In Great Songs for the 5-String Banjo you’ll find a superb collection of favourite songs all specially arranged to show off its adaptability. ‘Ho Hey’ and ‘Wagon Wheel’ are naturals but you’ll also enjoy just how well hits by Ed Sheeran, Adele and The Who sound in 5-string banjo arrangements. Whatever your favourites you’ll find plenty here to help you play, sing and extend your repertoire. Songlist: Across The Universe [The Beatles] - Bird On The Wire [Leonard Cohen] - The Circle Game [Joni Mitchell] - Dedicated Follower Of Fashion [The Kinks] - Drunken Maria [The Monks] - Get Lucky [Daft Punk] - Romeo and Juliet [Dire Straits] - Ho Hey [The Lumineers] - I Will Wait [Mumford & Sons] - Mr. Tambourine Man [The Byrds] - Redemption Song [Bob Marley] - Royals [Lorde] - Sing [Travis] - Skinny Love [Bon Iver] - Sloop John B [The Beach Boys] - Someone Like You [Adele] - The Weight [The Band] - Squeeze Box [The Who] - Wagon Wheel [Old Crow Medicine Show] - Willin' [Little Feat]
White Heat
Author: Dominic Sandbrook
Publisher: Abacus
Published: 2015-02-05
Total Pages: 741
ISBN-13: 0349141282
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'An active pleasure to read' Mail on Sunday Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster to the drama of the World Cup, British life seemed to have taken on a dramatic new momentum. The memories, images and colourful personalities of those heady times still resonate today: mop-tops and mini-skirts, strikes and demonstrations, Carnaby Street and Kings Road, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, Mary Quant and Jean Shrimpton, Enoch Powell and Mary Whitehouse, Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger. In this wonderfully rich and readable historical narrative, Dominic Sandbrook looks behind the myths of the Swinging Sixties to unearth the contradictions of a society caught between optimism and decline.
The Face
Author: James Stanley
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2017-09-28
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 154620959X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt was a beautiful late April day in 1968. She had decided to take her baby for a stroll. She sat on the park bench, checked her watch, and looked skyward, squinting into the sun, trying to make out the dark falling object that appeared, as if someone had dropped a sack of sand from the clouds. Oh, my GodIts a person! A person soon to be found dead in the courtyard of the 6-floor Kensington Towers and identified as 25-year old Jane Louise Ladd, a lifelong London resident and current fashion model, known as The Face, during a time that defined a generation. Travel back in time, to the era known as Swinging Britain, and learn what happened. Did Jane jump? Was it an accident? Was it foul play?
