Bøker av Amy de La Haye

In Chanel: Couture and Industry, fashion critic and historian Amy de la Hayepresentsthe story of Chanel’s rise from milliner to glamorous global brand. For over a century, the name Chanel has been synonymous with feminine elegance, modernity, and innovation in fashion. This lavishly illustrated book, expanded and updated, examines the creative output of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (1883–1971) over the course of her long career and documents the creation and meteoric rise of the Chanel fashion empire and the products that bear its exclusive label: haute couture, ready-to-wear, accessories, jewelry, and perfumes. A final chapter looks at the fashion house after Chanel, specifically the vision of creative director Karl Lagerfeld, who, from 1983 until his death in 2019, ensured that the brand retained its position as the forefront of fashion’s vanguard, as well as the reinterpretation of Chanel fashion signatures by his successor, Virginie Viard, today.

"To accompany the exhibition Ravishing: The Rose in Fasion at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York."--Verso.

"Hannah Gluckstein (who called herself Gluck; 1895-1976) was a distinctive, original voice in the early evolution of modern art in Britain. This handsome book presents a major reassessment of Gluck'slife and work, examining, among other things, the artist'snumerous personal relationships and contemporary notions of gender and social history. Gluck'spaintings comprise a full range of artistic genres--still life, landscape, portraiture--as well as images of popular entertainers. Financially independent and somewhat freed from social convention, Gluck highlighted her sexual identity, cutting her hair short and dressing as a man, and the artistis known for a powerful series of self-portraits that played with conventions of masculinity and femininity. Richly illustrated, this volume is a timely and significant contribution to gender studies and to the understanding of a complex and important modern painter. "--

Clara loves hats, and when her older brother Ollie breaks her favourite, Mum takes them on a special hat day out. While visiting the Victoria and Albert Museum, Clara gets lost and embarks on an exciting journey of discovery. Meanwhile, Ollie is having adventures of his own, with swords and tigers!

After the postman delivers their invitation to a wedding, Clara and Ollie begin careful preparations. Clara imagines what the bride might wear, and might have worn in the past, but disaster strikes the night before the big event! Can Ollie and his inventions - and a visit to the haberdashery - save the day?