Ready, Set, Sew!
Categories: Entertainment , Nonfiction , Arts & Crafts
Project Runway, a fashion design reality show on Bravo! every Wednesday night, is one of my favorite television shows of all. "Who will be the next big fashion designer?," asks hostess Heidi Klum. It is fun to watch, and also it is inspiring!
In the spirit of the design competition, our catalog offers a variety of books and magazines on women's style and fashion design.
Style and fashion design tips:
- People has published Celebrity Style Guide (2006) to help you pull together your glam look without sewing a stitch.
- 10 Steps to Fashion Freedom (2001), by Malcolm Levine
- How to be a Budget Fashionista (2006), by Kathryn Finney
- Before You Put That On: 365 Daily Style Tips for Her (2005), by Lloyd Boston
Fashion Magazines, all of which are available in the Library collection:
Sewing, in case you get so inspired you need to try to make your own fashions:
- The Complete Photo Guide to Sewing Reference for beginning and experienced sewers
- Sew News (periodical)
- The Complete Guide to Sewing Not the same book as the one above, but also very appealing to all levels of sewers
- Sew Basic: 34 Essential Skills for Sewing With Confidence (2002)
History of fashion:
- Key Moments in Fashion: Evolution of Style (2001) is a look at women's clothing from about 1890 to the early 1990's. Beautiful gowns, pants, the New Look...fascinating.
- 100 Years of Style by Decade and Designer, v. 1-5 (2000) covers designers and their styles for the past century or so.
- In an Influential Fashion: An Encyclopedia of Influential 19th & 20th Century Fashion Designers and Retailers Who Transformed Dress (Greenwood Press, 2002) is a little more manageable size than the previous, and is also enlightening as far as from where-in-the-world those styles came from.
