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The Corset Fetish Vol. 1 No. 1
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCandy Lane
Nottingham: Candy Lane, No date.Dedicated to Fashions, Fads, Fancies and Fetishes. Largely full page black and white photographs of women in corsets accompanied by several John Willie illustrations. Text is mostly the story, The Thrill of Corsets, by H. T. Lowe, together with a couple of short introductory remarks on corset and fetish appreciation.
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Tailoring. How to Make it Pay.
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartT. H. Holding
London: T. H. Holding, No date.Late 19th century / early 20th century guide to running a successful tailoring business by British tailor and pioneer of modern camping Thomas Hiram Holding (1844-1930).
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The Magic of Colour [Color] Harmony in Dress
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMona Moncrieffe
Sydney: Bebarfald’s, 1927.1920s ladies’ fashion, though more extensively a guide to succeeding as a crafty and fashionable woman with a particular focus on the successful use of colour for different types of women. The majority of the illustrations signed Hilton, possibly Cecil Hilton Jones, also Alec J. Wood.
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Made in U.S.A. Catalog, 1975 and Made in U.S.A.-2 Scrapbook of America, 1976 (2 Volumes)
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartYoshihisa Kinameri; Jiro Ishikawa
Tokyo: Yomiuri Shimbun, 1975.Two catalogues of American fashion, culture, tools, and lifestyle products, an earlier project from the founders of Popeye magazine, who travelled the United States to put together these volumes which became a massive driver of American lifestyle and fashion influence in Japanese culture. Today, they remain a detailed catalogue of 1970s American culture. Both volumes include detailed shopping guides to numerous American cities. Unrecorded in OCLC or CiNii,
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Reflections of Paradise: Silks and Tiles from Ottoman Bursa
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAhmet Ertug
Istanbul: Ertug & Kocabiyik, 1995. -
Boy George Fashion & Make-up Book
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWayne Winder; Gerardine Winder; Christina Saunders
London: Hamlyn, 1984.Everything you need to know to achieve that early 1980s Boy George look you always wanted.
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The Miracle of Celanese Brand Fabrics
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCelanese Corporation of America
New York: Celanese Corporation of America, 1928.Early promotional booklet for Celanese, a cellulose acetate “artificial silk” fabric, produced by the Celanese Corporation of America. The firm, a Fortune 500 company still operating today as Celanese, the name being a portmanteaux of cellulose and ease, promoting the new product as easy to clean and care for. The booklet is illustrated throughout by Robert L. Leonard (1879-1958), a pioneering figure of American decorative arts, design, and illustration. Having studied and worked as an illustrator in Munich, Berlin, and Paris before migrating to the United States in 1923, he brought with him a modernist style which is on full show in the colourful art deco illustrations. Leonard was a founding member of the American Union of Decorative Artists and Designers and edited the first Annual of American Design in 1931. A rare treat of 1920s fashion and illustration, with only 1 copy recorded in OCLC, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library.
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City Indians: Photographs of Western Tribal Fashion
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChris Wroblewski; Nelly Gomez-Vaez
Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn Verlag, 1983.Photographic study of youth subculture in the United Kingdom and Europe in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Divided into sections: Mohicans, Piercing, Skinheads, Rock and Roll, Sons of Hell, Leather, Sic Boys, Dress, Tattoo, Hare Krishna, and Rasta. This copy inscribed by Wroblewski on the title page and with an inscribed laid in postcard of his photograph of one of the tattooed subjects featured in the book.
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The Dansant at the Cafe Royal, London, 1971 [Programme]
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDerek Roe; Margot Macrae; Cecil Beaton; Hettie Jacques
Paris and London: Nina Ricci, 1971.Programme for The Dansant ’71 insired by L’Air du Temps by Nina Ricci, created by Derek Roe. Texts by Margot Macrae and Cecil Beaton. The occasion presented fifty years of fashion from the Cecil Beaton Collection. The programme consists primarily of British advertisements, highlights include an advert for Valium Roche. This copy signed by English actress Hettie Jacques (1922-1980) to the front cover. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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The Designer’s Guide: Easton Pearson Archive
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRenai Grace; Madeleine Johns; Alice Payne; Pamela Easton; Lydia Pearson
Brisbane: Museum of Brisbane, 2018.Produced to accompany the exhibition at the Museum of Brisbane, 23 November, 2018 – 22 April, 2019.
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The Other Side of the Picture
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOlivier Theyskens
New York: Assouline Publishing, 2009.Photographs by Julien Claessens. Introduction by Sally Singer.
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Not Only Black + White Magazine Number 55: The Fashion Issue
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2001.Single issue of successful Australian photography magazine, (not only) Black+White. Published between 1992 and 2007 Black+White was a coffee table format magazine which featured work from some of the world’s top photographers, often nude or semi-nude portraiture, together with interviews with photographers and celebrities and articles on popular culture and current events. In this issue: The Fashion Issue: Leeanna Walsman, Ray Liotta, Bettina Rheims, Alexandre Matthieu, Sneak Obsession.
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Not Only Black + White Magazine Number 50: The Fashion Issue
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2001.Single issue of successful Australian photography magazine, (not only) Black+White. Published between 1992 and 2007 Black+White was a coffee table format magazine which featured work from some of the world’s top photographers, often nude or semi-nude portraiture, together with interviews with photographers and celebrities and articles on popular culture and current events. In this issue: The Fashion Issue (Collector’s Edition): Nude Celebrity Highlights from 50 Issues featuring Portia de Rossi, Guy Pearce, Kate Fiscer, Grant Hackett, Melissa Tkautz, Adam Garcia, Annalise Braakensiek, Melissa George and more, also: 2001 Directions, Rose Byrne, Anna Sui, Moulin Rouge.
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Not Only Black + White Magazine Number 45: The Fashion Issue
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2000.Single issue of successful Australian photography magazine, (not only) Black+White. Published between 1992 and 2007 Black+White was a coffee table format magazine which featured work from some of the world’s top photographers, often nude or semi-nude portraiture, together with interviews with photographers and celebrities and articles on popular culture and current events. In this issue: The Fashion Issue: Megan Gale, Rachel Blanchard, Matthew Newton, Towa Tei’s Deeper Grooves, Sante D’Orazio’s Celebrity Nudes, Spring/Summer 2000: Why OTT is AOK.
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Fashion Nude (A Special Issue of Black+White)
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcello Grand
Sydney: Studio Magazines, 2006.A special issue of Not Only Black + White featuring risque fashion photography from 23 top international photographers. Published between 1992 and 2007 Black+White was a coffee table format magazine which featured work from some of the world’s top photographers, often nude or semi-nude portraiture, together with interviews with photographers and celebrities and articles on popular culture and current events.
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Katalog Der Freiherrlich Von Lipperheide’schen Kostumbibliothek (2 Volumes)
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cart[Franz Freiherr von Lipperheide]
Storrs-Mansfield: Maurizio Martino, No date.Catalogue of the Lipperheide Costume Library. 310 illustrations in v.1, 293 in v.2. Limited edition of 150 copies.
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Life on a G-String
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKerry Cue
Melbourne: Penguin, 1991.An Uproariously Unreliable Guide to Glamour. Written and Illustrated by Kerry Cue. Inscribed by Kerry Cue.
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The Savoy Taylors’ Guild Ltd.: Designers and Makers of Savoyard Fine Clothing
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThe Savoy Taylors’ Guild Ltd.
London: Savoy Taylors’ Guild, No date.1920s men’s fashion catalogue for the well dressed man. Founded in 1906 Savoy Taylors Guild based in London’s Strand (and operating there until only recently) aimed “to supply high-grade outfitting for men, in commodious surroundings, giving honest value and exercising an unceasing effort to satisfy the wishes of its customers”. This early catalogue, illustrated by Minister & Co., shows a range of suits for everyday, lounging, formal occasions, around town, playing golf, and while driving the automobile or travelling aboard the steamer. OCLC shows no holdings of any Savoy Taylors Guild catalogue or archive. This copy with two 1928 newspaper clippings laid in, being Parts II and III of Clothes and the Man by Clive Hamilton.
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Souvenir Programme: Crowning Ceremony: Miss Sydney Competition, Anzac House Appeal
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartReturned Sailors, Soldiers & Airmens Imperial Australia League
Sydney: The Market Print, 1944.Programme for a beauty pageant at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Ground, Saturday, 9th September, 1944, organised by the RSL to raise funds for development of Anzac House, Sydney. Contains a brief pitch for the development, programme of events, and portraits of the competitors, most representing different government departments and ministries.
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Australian Style Issue #1
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAndrea Horwood
Perth: Australian Style, 1993.First issue of Australian 1990s fashion magazine Australian Style featuring Kylie Minogue on the cover. This issue features a series of portraits of Minogue by Tony Notarberardino smoking, but with the cigarette edited out, though one image remains with stick in hand. Also features Greta Scacchi, Andrew Ettinghausen, Graeme Murphy, rodeo sports, Stompem Ground ’92, Hunters and Collector’s Mark Seymor, and more.