The Fish Rots from the Head : The Crisis in Our Boardrooms - Developing the Crucial Skills of the Competent Director (revised edition 2003) by Bob Garratt
$26.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A company's success or failure depends much on the performance of its board - an ancient Chinese saying is that 'the fish rots from the head'. Yet the vast majority of directors admit they have had no training for their role and are not sure what it entails. As boards' activities are made increasingly t ...Show more
Like I Give a Frock: Fashion Forecasts and Meaningless Misguidance by Michi Girl; Chloe Quigley; Daniel Pollock; Kat MacLeod (Illustrator)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Meet Michi. She's sometimes stylish and sometimes tragic, but she always knows best. She's sharp and funny. (And maybe just a tiny bit opinionated.) She's just a shopping queen, weather-watcher and quite possibly the best advice-giver you've ever met. Do you ever wonder when a baguette became a bag and ...Show more
Shopping for Vintage by Funmi Odulate
$22.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Vintage clothing provides a fantastic opportunity to wear beautifully made garments that are totally individual, as well as a small piece of history. It was only a few years ago that wearing vintage clothing was strictly for fancy dress parties and yet today the sartorial trends could not be more differ ...Show more
Fear and Fashion in the Cold War by Jane Pavitt
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
This book explores Cold War fashion in all its aspects, ranging from innovations in materials to the cybernetic visions of the 1960s, from the bikini to the spacesuit, vinyl radiation suits to high-tech jewellery, Paco Rabanne to Barbarella. Set in the context of art, film, science and design, Pavitt ex ...Show more
Art Deco Fashion (+ CD) by Pepin Press
$69.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Art Deco Fashion contains more than a 1,000 beautiful fashion plates, including designs from famous Art Deco designers such as Paul Poiret, Charles Worth and Jean Patou. The book comes with a free CD containing wonderful Art Deco patterns that have been meticulously restored from period originals. ...Show more
Sample: 100 Fashion Designers, 10 Curators by Bronwyn Cosgrave
$69.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
"Sample" takes its place in a series of surveys identifying 100 of the most interesting, cutting-edge practitioners of key art forms. Earlier surveys include cream and Fresh Cream, for contemporary art, 10x10 for architecture, BLINK for photography, Spoon for design and Area for graphic design.
Textile Designers at the Cutting Edge by Bradley Quinn
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Textile Designers at the Cutting Edge showcases a selection of textile designs from all over the world, presented in feature interviews with the world's most visionary young designers. Chosen for their contributions to fashion textiles and interior fabrics, the designers describe their output and inspi ...Show more
Calder Jewelry by Alexander S.C. Rower
$110.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Alexander Calder's jewellery has the same linear yet three-dimensional quality as his famous mobiles, and the parts that comprise each piece are hammered, shaped, and composed in a fashion that echoes the artist's creation of his sculpture. This work features photographs of his jewellery worn by notable ...Show more
Gentleman: A Timeless Guide to Fashion by Bernhard Roetzel
$44.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Some call it style, others a matter of taste-that certain A"touchA" some men have that lets them pick out and combine just the right suits, shirts, ties, and shoes. Actually, there is no trick to dressing stylishly as a man. You just have to become familiar with the tried-and-true classics and their his ...Show more
Winning by Jack Welch; Suzy Welch
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Reading Level: very good
The ultimate business how-to book by the icon of American business and one of the world's most revered and respected leaders, Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric. Winning explores the changes of recent times and the new economic realities. But more than that, it identifies the central, immutable ...Show more
Golden Age of Courture: Paris and London 1947 - 1957 by Claire Wilcox
$99.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
This lavish book focuses on Parisian and British couture between 1947 and 1957, a decade that Christian Dior described as fashion's 'golden age'. Dior's 'New Look' collection of 1947 shocked and delighted the fashion world, creating a style that symbolised a new femininity. The full skirts and hour glas ...Show more
Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957 by Claire Wilcox
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
This lavish book focuses on Parisian and British couture between 1947 and 1957, a decade that Christian Dior described as fashion's 'golden age'. Dior's 'New Look' collection of 1947 shocked and delighted the fashion world, creating a style that symbolised a new femininity. The full skirts and hour glas ...Show more