World Inside Designer Jeans
World Inside Designer Jeans

Author: Paco-Michelle Atwood

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1477294430

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Bursting with vibrant imagery captured in unique virtual world environments, and the simple beauty of conventional photography and graphic artistry, WORLD INSIDE DESIGNER JEANS opens a whole new dimension--uninhibited insight--into the ""real-world"" American Literary Arts scene. It submerges audiences into a world of flirtatious fun...deeply intimate and overwhelmingly intense moments of emotional detachment, personal bondage (...yeah, that kind of bondage!) and spiritual enlightenment. It is a mystical and therapeutically thought-provoking combination of human experiences, coupled with the liberating sensation that comes from sharing those experiences out loud! (...poetry slam, anyone?) Exposing the bare-naked details found at the core of her own psyche and Inner-child spirit, PACO-MICHELLE's ""Electronic-Poetry"" entices readers to dig in and ""Follow The Widow"" on a virtual journey--a creative-spiritual path--to penetrating (...and clearing!) underlying ego constraints... overcoming traumatic experiences... rejuvenating creative energies...enjoying LIFE! Readers are able to reach to universal principals and lessons found at the core of Buddhism, the Tarot, Native American culture, and so many other practical belief systems (both ancient and contemporary) that acknowledge and embrace the eternal Cycle of Life; the essential connectedness between mind, body, spirit, and the journeys we embark upon during our time here in this world. Dig it!

Denim
Denim

Author: Amy Leverton

Publisher: Rizzoli Publications

Published: 2018-03-27

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0847862305

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This street-style bible takes a chic and sexy look at the aesthetic power of blue jeans, featuring stylish women around the world wearing their favorite denim in their own unique way. Denim’s sexiness, whether it is being dressed up or dressed down, has made it the ultimate fashion statement as well as the ultimate anti-fashion statement. This book is an ode to the enduring cool of denim and the creative ways it can be worn, showcasing unique and inspirational stylish looks from denim lovers across the United States, the U.K., Europe, Japan, and Australia. Presenting street style at its best, Denim is also a veritable who’s who of the denim style world, featuring the personal looks of trendsetters, stylists, vintage dealers, as well as shop owners of renowned favorites such as Lot, Stock and Barrel in Los Angeles and Goodhood in London, and designers from cult brands such as Rollas and Lorod. A tribute to blue jeans and denim style around the world, this stylish volume is full of ideas for how to wear and style your denim, imparting inspiration not only for fashionistas, but for all who love blue jeans.

Global Denim
Global Denim

Author: Daniel Miller

Publisher: Berg

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1847886310

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On any given day nearly half of the world's population is wearing blue jeans: this is a fascinating study of the causes, nature and consequences of the rise of global denim.

Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade
Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade

Author: Rachel Louise Snyder

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2009-04-20

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0393065103

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“A fascinating chronicle of the $55-billion-a-year global denim industry.” —David Futrelle, Los Angeles Times Rachel Louise Snyder reports from the far reaches of the multi-billion-dollar denim industry in search of the people who make your clothes. From a cotton picker in Azerbaijan to a Cambodian seamstress, a denim maker in Italy to a fashion designer in New York, Snyder captures the human, environmental, and political forces at work in a complex and often absurd world. Neither polemic nor prescription, Fugitive Denim captures what it means to work in the twenty-first century.

Architectural Digest at 100
Architectural Digest at 100

Author: Architectural Digest

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2019-10-08

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 1683356470

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A 100-year visual history of the magazine, showcasing the work of top interior designers and architects, and the personal spaces of numerous celebrities. Architectural Digest at 100 celebrates the best from the pages of the international design authority. The editors have delved into the archives and culled years of rich material covering a range of subjects. Ranging freely between present and past, the book features the personal spaces of dozens of private celebrities like Barack and Michelle Obama, David Bowie, Truman Capote, David Hockney, Michael Kors, and Diana Vreeland, and includes the work of top designers and architects like Frank Gehry, David Hicks, India Mahdavi, Peter Marino, John Fowler, Renzo Mongiardino, Oscar Niemeyer, Axel Vervoordt, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Elsie de Wolfe. Also included are stunning images from the magazine’s history by photographers such as Bill Cunningham, Horst P. Horst, Simon Upton, Francois Dischinger, Francois Halard, Julius Shulman, and Oberto Gili. “The book is really a survey of how Americans have lived—and how American life has changed—over the past 100 years.” ?Los Angeles Times “A Must-Have Book!” ?Interior Design Magazines “Written in the elevated quality that only the editors of Architectural Digest can master so well, AD at 100: A Century of Style is the world’s newest guide to the best and brightest designs to inspire your next big home project.” ?The Editorialist

Denim Dudes
Denim Dudes

Author: Amy Leverton

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2015-02-09

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1780677200

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Denim Dudes is a street style book with a difference. As well as featuring key players in the global denim business, such as Jason Denham (Denham), François Girbaud, (Marithé + François Girbaud), Adriano Goldschmied (Diesel, 7 For All Mankind) and Kenichi and Kenji Shiotani (Warehouse Japan), it also explores the very best and latest denim styling on the street, from bikers to vintage dealers and store owners. Exclusive photography for the book was shot in Paris, Tokyo, London, New York, LA, Milan, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Barcelona, Melbourne, Gothenburg, and Sydney. This inspirational title will appeal not just to designers and fashion professionals but to a public increasingly obsessed with the world of denim. It offers unrivalled insight into the stylish and sometimes eccentric "dudes" involved in this fascinating and diverse industry.

The Secret Club That Runs the World
The Secret Club That Runs the World

Author: Kate Kelly

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1591847133

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“Thanks to this gripping new book … we know more about how they do it. And it’s even more shocking than you think.” —The Independent When most people think of the drama of global finance, they think of stocks and bonds, venture capital, high-tech IPOs, and complex mortgage-backed securities. But commodities? Crude oil and soybeans? Copper and wheat? What could be more boring? That’s exactly what the elite commodity traders want you to think. They don’t seek the media spotlight. They don’t want to be as famous as Warren Buffett or Bill Gross. Their astonishing wealth was created in near-total obscurity, either in closely held private companies or deep within large banks and corporations, where commodity profits and losses weren’t broken out. Now Kate Kelly, the bestselling author of Street Fighters, takes us inside this secretive inner circle that controls so many things we all depend on. She gets closer than any previous reporter to understanding these whip-smart, aggressive, and often egomaniacal men who bet millions every day on a blend of facts, analysis, and pure gut instinct.

Unraveled
Unraveled

Author: Maxine Bedat

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0593085973

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Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth--and death--of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationships to each other, ourselves, and the planet Take a look at your favorite pair of jeans. Maybe you bought them on Amazon or the Gap; maybe the tag says "Made in Bangladesh" or "Made in Sri Lanka." But do you know where they really came from, how many thousands of miles they crossed, or the number of hands who picked, spun, wove, dyed, packaged, shipped, and sold them to get to you? The fashion industry operates with radical opacity, and it's only getting worse to disguise countless environmental and labor abuses. It epitomizes the ravages inherent in the global economy, and all in the name of ensuring that we keep buying more while thinking less about its real cost. In Unraveled, entrepreneur, researcher, and advocate Maxine Bédat follows the life of an American icon--a pair of jeans--to reveal what really happens to give us our clothes. We visit a Texas cotton farm figuring out how to thrive without relying on fertilizers that poison the earth. Inside dyeing and weaving factories in China, where chemicals that are banned in the West slosh on factory floors and drain into waterways used to irrigate local family farms. Sewing floors in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are crammed with women working for illegally low wages to produce garments as efficiently as machines. Back in America, our jeans get stowed, picked, and shipped out by Amazon warehouse workers pressed to be as quick as the robots primed to replace them. Finally, those jeans we had to have get sent to landfills--or, if they've been "donated," shipped back around the world to Africa, where they're sold for pennies in secondhand markets or buried and burned in mountains of garbage. A sprawling, deeply researched, and provocative tour-de-force, Unraveled is not just the story of a pair of pants, but also the story of our global economy and our role in it. Told with piercing insight and unprecedented reporting, Unraveled challenges us to use our relationship with our jeans--and all that we wear--to reclaim our central role as citizens to refashion a society in which all people can thrive and preserve the planet for generations to come.

Made for Living
Made for Living

Author: Amber Lewis

Publisher: Clarkson Potter

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1984823914

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The trendsetting designer known for her effortless style shares the secrets of the art of layering, with more than 250 gorgeous photographs of her signature interiors. “Livability is my true north. The materials I use time and again all change with age and wear. Not only is that okay, it’s how you achieve more than a re-creation of what you’ve already seen, or what somebody else has done. You can do this, too—I promise.”—from the introduction Designing a room with all the vibes comes down to how you layer your décor. The more you can mix the elements of your room—your pillows, objects, patterns, and lighting—the more finished it’ll feel: not too new, not too old, but just right. Known for her eclectic approach that stems from her California cool, Amber Lewis trains your eye in Made for Living, offering friendly advice on everything from nailing that perfect shade of paint to mismatching patterns with wild abandon to choosing a stone finish for new countertops. These pages will help you design a home that's made to be lived in.

Salvage Secrets Design & Decor: Transform Your Home with Reclaimed Materials
Salvage Secrets Design & Decor: Transform Your Home with Reclaimed Materials

Author: Joanne Palmisano

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2014-05-20

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0393733882

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A visually sumptuous idea book, showcasing an eclectic array of interior design possibilities using salvaged goods. Following up on her celebrated first Salvage Secrets book, which Fine Homebuilding called “An invaluable first step in the salvage-for-design journey,” here salvage design guru Joanne Palmisano takes readers further, exploring a wealth of smaller-scale interior design and decor concepts. Bottle caps turned into a kitchen backsplash, old bed springs reinvented as candle holders, and a recycled shipping container-turned-guesthouse are just a few examples of the innovative repurposing of second-hand items that readers will discover. From retro and modern to classic, “cottage,” and urban chic, Palmisano takes readers on a sumptuous visual journey featuring unique salvage ideas in an eclectic array of styles, for every room in the house—kitchens and dining rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms, living rooms and dens, and entryways and outdoor areas. The journey continues with a sampling of cutting-edge retail spaces, hotels, cafes, and boutiques across the country that incorporate salvage into their designs, such as Industrie Denim in San Francisco, Stowe Mountain Lodge in Stowe, Vermont, and Rejuvenation in Portland. Profiles of thirteen “salvage success stories” are also included, showcasing the imaginative designs of creative homeowners. And lastly, fourteen easy, do-it-yourself projects are included at the back of the book (with step-by-step instructions), not to mention a comprehensive “Where to Find Salvage” resource section. Packed with over 350 color photos, Salvage Secrets Design & Decor offers a trove of salvage ideas to inspire, proving that you need look no further than your local rebuild center, architectural salvage shop, or flea market to transform your living space.