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The Basics of Corset Building: A Handbook for Beginners
The Basics of Corset Building: A Handbook for Beginners
by Linda Sparks
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Think of a corset as a blank canvas. Heres whats included in this comprehensive guide to building your first corset:| Section One: Tools and Materials for Corset Building Discusses the tools youll need, plus types of steel, plastic, and textiles... (read more)

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Hats!: Make Classic Hats and Headpieces in Fabric, Felt, and Straw
Hats!: Make Classic Hats and Headpieces in Fabric, Felt, and Straw
by Sarah Cant
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Innovative milliner Sarah Cant takes you step-by-step through the process of creating many types of hats. Starting with felted hats and two simple classic shapes, a cloche and a trilby, Sarah shows how to use them&#... (read more)

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Alabama Studio Style: More Projects, Recipes and Stories Celebrating Sustainable Fashion and Living
Alabama Studio Style: More Projects, Recipes and Stories Celebrating Sustainable Fashion and Living
by Natalie Chanin and Robert Rausch
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Crafty folks, prepare to swoon: Natalie Chanin is back with what might be the most anticipated DIY book this year, the follow-up to her heavily evangelized Alabama Stitch Book. This time, she applies her deep-South homespun haute to 20 new projects, all... (read more)

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Advanced Style
Advanced Style
by Ari Seth Cohen
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Advanced Style is Ari Seth Cohen’s blog-based ode to the confidence, beauty, and fashion that can only be achieved through the experience of a life lived glamorously. It is a collection of street fashion unlike any seen before—focused on the... (read more)

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Pattern Magic 2
Pattern Magic 2
by Tomoko Nakamichi
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Pattern Magic 2 is the cult pattern-cutting book from Japan, partner to the original title Pattern Magic. Inspiring and exciting, this volume takes a creative approach to pattern cutting, with more step-by-step projects for fashion designers and... (read more)

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Tomboy Style: Beyond the Boundaries of Fashion
Tomboy Style: Beyond the Boundaries of Fashion
by Lizzie Garrett Mettler
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Tomboys are confident, rebellious, and adventurous. They are bold, brazen, fierce—and sexy. They aren’t known for following rules, they are known for doing—and wearing—whatever they want.  Tomboy captures the tomboy’s... (read more)

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The Celtic Collection: Twenty-Five Knitwear Designs for Men and Women
The Celtic Collection: Twenty-Five Knitwear Designs for Men and Women
by Alice Starmore
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Best-selling author Alice Starmore combines style, practicality, and the mystery of the Celtic spirit in this gorgeous collection of knitwear designs.... (read more)

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Fashion Drawing for Dummies (For Dummies)
Fashion Drawing for Dummies (For Dummies)
by Lisa Smith Arnold
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The fast and fun way to sketch stylish, long-limbed figures If you like fashion and you like to doodle, you've come to the right place. Fashion Drawing For Dummies walks you through the process of preparing creative illustrations of men, women, and... (read more)

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Audrey Style
Audrey Style
by Pamela Clarke Keogh
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Everyone, it seems, is a fan of Audrey's. She was Gigi, a princess, Holly Golightly, a nun, Maid Marian, even an angel. And we believed her in every role. But Audrey Hepburn was also one of the most admired and emulated women of the twentieth century... (read more)

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The Parisian Woman's Guide to Style
The Parisian Woman's Guide to Style
by Virginie Morana
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The women of Paris have always been recognized as the world leaders of a classic, sophisticated look, that certain je ne sais quoi which has held such mystique for style-conscious women around the world. Here two native Parisians demonstrate what it... (read more)

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Professional Sewing Techniques for Designers (08 Edition)
Professional Sewing Techniques for Designers (08 Edition)
by Julie Christine Cole
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Professional Sewing Techniques for Designers is a modern, colorful, and up-to-date sewing guide that teaches fashion design students the construction skills they'll need to execute their original designs in a professional environment. Each chapter covers... (read more)

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Carry Me: 20 Boutique Bags to Sew
Carry Me: 20 Boutique Bags to Sew
by Yuka Koshizen
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Highlighting the extraordinary influence Japanese craft has imparted on the world of fiber arts, this brilliantly illustrated manual showcases the stylish sensibilities of eastern expertise in creating gorgeously sophisticated handbags. Revealing a... (read more)

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Roots of Style: Weaving Together Life, Love, and Fashion
Roots of Style: Weaving Together Life, Love, and Fashion
by Isabel Toledo
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Roots of Style is a rare look into the mind, life, and journey of one of our generation’s most coveted fashion designers, Isabel Toledo. From the nostalgic and permanent in­fluence of her upbringing in Cuba and the serendipitous love that... (read more)

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How to Have Style
How to Have Style
by Isaac Mizrahi
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The king of real-world chic shares his tips and award-winning flair in a colorful guidebook designed to unleash every woman’s inner fashionista. A twenty-year veteran of the fashion industry, Isaac Mizrahi has become a unique icon in the world of style.... (read more)

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Fashioning Fabrics: Contemporary Textiles in Fashion
Fashioning Fabrics: Contemporary Textiles in Fashion
by Sandy Black
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Fashioning Fabrics considers the work of fashion designers who put textile development at the center of their practice. Taking in both flights of fancy gracing the most exclusive catwalks in the world and emerging designers working on a much smaller... (read more)

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Faux Real: Genuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes
Faux Real: Genuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes
by Robert Kanigel
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Faux RealGenuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired FakesRobert KanigelA sound researcher and an engaging writer. . . . Kanigel intelligently takes time to address the philosophical question of the importance of faux versus real.--Publishers... (read more)

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What People Wore When ; Complete Illustrated History of Costume From Ancient Times To Nineteenth Century for Every Level of Society (08 Edition)
What People Wore When ; Complete Illustrated History of Costume From Ancient Times To Nineteenth Century for Every Level of Society (08 Edition)
by Melissa Leventon
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What People Wore When combines the studies of two classic nineteenth-century illustrators Auguste Racinet and Friedrich Hottenroth for the first time. Their works are presented first by chronology and then by subject, so that illustrators, historians... (read more)

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The Fashion Book
The Fashion Book
by Phaidon
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A to Z guide to over 500 of the most important names in the business, a fresh look at the fashion world and the people who created it. An outstanding collection of fashion images since 1860, each designer represented by an arresting photograph or artwork... (read more)

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Art of Manipulating Fabric
Art of Manipulating Fabric
by Colette Wolff
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The possibilities for three-dimensional manipulation of fabric - gathering, pleating, tucking, shirring, and quilting woven materials - are seemingly endless. To describe them all would be to describe the entire history of sewing. In The Art of... (read more)

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Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
by Tim Gunn
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On the runway of life, Tim Gunn is the perfect life coach.  Youve watched him mentor talented designers on the hit television show Project Runway. Now the inimitable Tim Gunn shares his personal secrets for “making it work”—in... (read more)

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