LibGuides: Fashion Merchandising and Design Subject Guide: Designer Resources (FMD 114)

Reference Sources (eBooks)

The Great Fashion Designers
ISBN: 9781350091603
The Berg Companion to Fashion
ISBN: 9781847885920
Contemporary Fashion
ISBN: 9781558623484
The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Fashion and Designers
ISBN: 9780500203132
100 Ideas That Changed Fashion
ISBN: 9781856697330
Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion
ISBN: 9780684313948
American Decades Series
ISBN: 9781414411163
There are sections for each decade dedicated to fashion.
American Decades Primary Sources
ISBN: 9781414486024
There is a section dedicated to fashion.

Books By or On Specific Designers (Print and eBooks)

Ann Lowe
Call Number: 746.92092 L951w
ISBN: 9780847873142
Schiaparelli and Prada
Call Number: 746.920922 K816s
ISBN: 9780300179552
Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech
Call Number: 746.92092 Ab67a
ISBN: 9781636810744
Publication Date: 2022-08-09
Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli by Ilya Parkins
ISBN: 9780857853264
Alexander Mcqueen
Call Number: 746.92092 M459b
ISBN: 9780300169782
Isabel Toledo
Call Number: 746.92092 T575s
ISBN: 9780300145830
Madeleine Vionnet
Call Number: General Collection Oversized Folio 746.92092 V814k
ISBN: 9780811819978

Designer eBooks

The Pursuit of Style
ISBN: 9781613125908
The a to Z of the Fashion Industry
ISBN: 9780810870468
Black Designers in American Fashion
ISBN: 9781350138469
The Poetry of Fashion Design
ISBN: 9781592537150
Japanese Fashion Designers
ISBN: 9781847883100
China Fashion: Conversations with Designers
ISBN: 9781847888600
The Hidden History of American Fashion
ISBN: 9781350000469
1 Brief, 50 Designers, 50 Solutions in Fashion Design
ISBN: 9781592537136
Fashion Visionaries
ISBN: 9781780675787

Designer Print Books

Africa Fashion
Call Number: 746.92096 Af831
ISBN: 9781838510275
The Beautiful Fall
Call Number: 746.92 D789
ISBN: 9780316001854
A comprehensive biography of the late designer, Karl Lagerfeld, and his infamous rivalry with Yves Saint Laurent.
Champagne Supernovas: Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and the '90s renegades who remade fashion
Call Number: 746.92 C131c
ISBN: 9781451640588
The Battle of Versailles
Call Number: 746.920944 G449b
ISBN: 9781250062321
At the Battle of Versailles five Americans--Oscar de la Renta, Bill Blass, Anne Klein, Halston, and Stephen Burrows--faced off against the five French designers considered the best in the world--Yves Saint Laurent, Hubert de Givenchy, Pierre Cardin, Emanuel Ungaro, and Marc Bohan of Christian Dior. Against all odds, the American energy and the domination by their fearless models (ten of whom, in a ground-breaking move, were African-American) sent the audience reeling.

Films on Demand

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