Lucy hammonds (7 Ergebnisse)

Soft Covers. Zustand: Very Good. None. First Edition. 27 cm, 152 pp, colour photo illus, soft covers. A lovely copy. Art collection of the Hawke's Bay Museums Trust.

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs NR.

INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY DOUGLAS LLOYD JENKINS, square imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, illus/decorated inside covers, 152pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to spine, sl curling to cover edges, minor bruising to extrems, light chafing to wrappers, light tanning to page edges).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Random House New Zealand 2010 First Edition 423pp illus (bw & col) VG+ (dec hard cover v sl worn).

Hb. Zustand: VG. None. First Edition. Clean colour illustrated cover. Ffep: small owners sticker. Small sticky smudge spot on title and verso page; on Contents and verso page; one small paperpeel to one page bottom margin. Otherwise quite clean contents. Colour & b/w illustrations. Binding is As New. Black ribbon bookmarker. 423p Heavy book: nearly 2 kgs.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Oversized & heavy hardcover, shipping weight over 2kg, 422 pages, illustrated throughout (over 350 colour and b&w photos, many full-page, some double-spreads), NOT ex-library. Great interior, clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Clean and bright page edges externally. Boards show small bumps, gentle corner creases, a touch of rubbing. Issued without a dust jacket. -- "The Dress Circle" inserts seven decades of history into the family tree of New Zealand fashion design in a landmark book that celebrates both the achievements of New Zealand fashion designers from the recent past and the high-profile success of the contemporary generation. In over 400 fully illustrated pages, authors Lucy Hammonds, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins and Claire Regnault reveal the wealth of stories that underpin the development of New Zealand's unique fashion design history. They showcase the talents and undeniable flair of a wide range of New Zealand fashion designers, from the well-known to those who have slipped out of the public eye. At the same time the book explores the key social shifts that empowered change in fashion, offering a new view of a vital and exciting branch of New Zealand design culture. Shortlisted for the 2011 NZ Post Book Awards. -- Contents: Introduction; 1. The Nineteen Forties: Stepping Out; 2. The Nineteen Fifties: After Frocks; 3. The Nineteen Sixties: In Vogue; 4. The Nineteen Seventies: A Fabulous Mess; 5. The Nineteen Eighties: On the Make; 6. The Nineteen Nineties: Search for a Style; 7. The Two Thousands: Our Fashion Moment; The Finer Details [Endnotes; Key Sources & Selected Bibliography; Credits; Acknowledgements; A Note from Deborah Smith; Index] -- "Contrary to popular opinion, New Zealand Fashion didn't begin in the late 1990s when four designers were sent to the London catwalks and created a stir with their stylish dark garments. Its history is in fact a long and rich one, and no one tells it better than the team of Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, Claire Regnault and Lucy Hammonds, all three of whom are experts in the field, and who spent over three years tracking down our overlooked and in some cases entirely forgotten fashion pioneers and heroes. The treasure-trove of fabulous frocks, coats, ballgowns and bijou pieces they bring back into the light are stunning in their creativity, giving the lie to the notion that we've always been a nation of bad dressers. The stories they tell of dedication, passion, of triumph and of disaster are part of our rich history.".…

Square imperial octavo, illus heavy card covers, white lettering to spine, 424pp, illus, (VG+).