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Alexander McQueen by Claire Wilcox
$90.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Fashion is a big bubble, and sometimes I feel like popping it.' Alexander McQueen, 2009 This definitive publication on Alexander McQueen (1969 - 2010) invites you into the creative mind of one of Britain's most brilliant, daring and provocative designers. Accompanying the V&A's landmark exhibition A ...Show more
Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear by Claire Wilcox
$79.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A visually stunning exploration of how fashion shapes ideas of masculinity. At a moment of unprecedented creativity in men's fashion, and continuing reflections on gender, contemporary designers are questioning established forms, seeking to liberate wearers from traditional models of masculine dress. ...Show more
Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up by Claire Wilcox (Editor); Circe Henestrosa (Editor)
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Reading Level: near fine
Frida Kahlo (1907 1958) is an artist with a unique international appeal. Her instantly recognizable work draws extensively on her life and her extraordinarily personal reflections upon it. On Kahlo 's death, her husband Diego Rivera ordered that her most private possessions be locked away until fifteen ...Show more
Golden Age of Courture: Paris and London 1947 - 1957 by Claire Wilcox
$99.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Secondhand. This lavish book focuses on Parisian and British couture between 1947 and 1957, a decade that Christian Dior described as fashion's 'golden age'. Dior's 'New Look' collection of 1947 shocked and delighted the fashion world, creating a style that symbolised a new femininity. The full skirts ...Show more
Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957 by Claire Wilcox
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
This lavish book focuses on Parisian and British couture between 1947 and 1957, a decade that Christian Dior described as fashion's 'golden age'. Dior's 'New Look' collection of 1947 shocked and delighted the fashion world, creating a style that symbolised a new femininity. The full skirts and hour glas ...Show more
Patch Work - A Life Amongst Clothes by Claire Wilcox
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'I am overwhelmed by this book. It is an absolute masterpiece. A book of such beauty and profundity, of such poetry in its emotion and observation ... I found my sense of life transformed by her writing as I often find it transformed after the exhibition of a great artist' LAURA CUMMING Claire Wilcox ha ...Show more
Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes by Claire Wilcox
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A strange and mesmerising piece of work' Sunday Times 'An absolute masterpiece' Laura Cumming 'An uncommon delight' Observer Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. In Patch Work, she turns her curator's ...Show more
Twentieth-century Fashion in Detail by Claire Wilcox
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
This glamorous book, part of the "V&A Fashion in Detail" series, illustrates the intricate details of twentieth-century fashion. Spectacular photographs, accompanied by expert commentaries and specially commissioned line drawings, focus on fanciful Dior bows, Chanel button-holes and metal sprinfs on ...Show more
Vivienne Westwood by Claire Wilcox
$49.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: VA
Over 300 illustrations convey the dynamism and impact of her ideas from the early punk years to her more recent collections, presenting imaginative and stunning creations that have been a major influence on fashion, music and art since the 1970s. Outfits worn by the Sex Pistols contrast with more recent ...Show more
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