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Fashion reading list

History of Fashion & Fashion as Art (Reference for Jewelry Designers)

Art/fashion
GT523 .A78 1997

Artwear : fashion and anti-fashion
GT523 .L48 2005

Chats on costume 

NK4706 .R54 1906

The corset : a cultural history
GT2075 .S74 2001

Dressing for pleasure in rubber, vinyl & leather : the best of AtomAge, 1972-1980 
GT511 .T78 2010

Fashion : a history from the 18th to the 20th century 
GT580 .F372 2010

Fashion in colors : Victor & Rolf & KCI
GT503 .C64 2004

Fashion through plates, 1771-1970

GT513 .M6 1971b

Earrings : from antiquity to the present 
GT2265 .M36 1990

Extreme beauty : the body transformed
GT503 .K63 2001

Hippie chic
GT596 .W44 2013

Icons of elegance : the most influential shoe designers of the 20th century
GT2130 S45 2005

Natural fashion : tribal decoration from Africa 

GN519.15 .S5614 2008

Radical fashion
GT596 .R34 2001

Veil modesty, privacy, and resistance 
GT2112 .E5 1999

 

Alternative Materials in Jewelry Making (Predominantly Plastics)

1000 rings : inspiring adornments for the hand
TT212 .A17 2004

Crocheted wire jewelry : innovative designs & projects by leading artists
TT212 .C76 2006

Plastics for artists and craftsmen
TT297 .H65

Plastics for jewelry
TT212 .H64 1974
 

Fashion Designers (Reference for Jewelry Designers)

Alexander McQueen : savage beauty
TT505.M347 M37 2011

Balenciaga and Spain
TT505.B3 B69 2011
 
Chanel
TT505.C45 .K63 2005

Fashion and Surrealism
TT507 .M375 1987

Fashion at the edge : spectacle, modernity & deathliness
TT504 .E33 2003

National Geographic fashion
TT506 .N38 2001

Poiret
TT505.P6 W47

Superheroes : fashion and fantasy
TT502 .B54 2008

Todd Oldham : without boundaries
TT505.O43 A3 1997

Xtreme fashion
TT507 .S65 2004

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