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Author: Janet Riehecky
Publisher: Chicago : Childrens Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 38
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Follows the life of the prominent dress designer, from her childhood in Venezuela through her growing interest in fashion to her current success in design.
Author: Alexandra Kotur
Publisher:
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781614281627
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Weaving together elegance, delicacy, and femininity, Carolina Herrera has defined a graceful aesthetic that is all her own. Born into an aristocratic Venezuelan family, Herrera developed her fashion sensibilities at the age of 13 when she attended her first fashion show. From her emergence as an acclaimed beauty surrounded by royals and artists like Andy Warhol, to her current renown as the woman who dresses women who know how to dress, Carolina Herrera has established herself as a fashion icon. Through the celebrated photography of Annie Leibovitz, Arthur Elgort, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Mario Testino, as well as the words of friends, colleagues, and admirers like Calvin Klein, Ian Schrager, and Bianca Jagger Carolina Herrera is a portrait of one of today's most timeless designers. With an introduction by Hamish Bowles, this book tells the story of a woman whose fashion echoes her own refinement. AUTHOR: Alexandra Kotur is a senior editor of Vogue where she develops feature stories and works closely with photographers such as Annie Leibovitz, Jonathan Becker, and Steven Klein. Hamish Bowles is the international editor at large for Vogue. Prior to joining Vogue in 1992 as style editor, Bowles was fashion editor and later style editor at Harpers and Queens. Bowles has also served as creative consultant at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years" exhibition at the Costume Institution. 160 illustrations
Author: Kevin Cunningham
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers
Published: 2023-05-30
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 1545757771
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fashion icon. Admired businessperson. Immigrant success story. Carolina Herrera turned her eye for style and love of clothes into a billion-dollar company. This book in the Notable Hispanic Americans series follows the legendary designer from her childhood in Venezuela to her rise to the top of American fashion. Herreras life included friendships with celebrities and First Ladies. But her decision to start a fashion business brought her face-to-face with a high-pressure career and the need to balance work with raising a family.
Author: Nicky Haslam
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2013-03-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0847839974
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For anyone who has nurtured the dream of having a country house in the English style, celebrated designer Nicholas Haslam has created an inspiring series of exquisite yet relaxed interiors that blend traditional comfort with elegance and a passion for collecting art and antiques. Nicholas Haslam’s delightful "Folly de Grandeur" is a unique country house that many in the interior design community consider to be one of the world’s most inspiring and picturesque places. The interiors and grounds represent a tasteful yet relaxed vision for a country house in the English style. Haslam restored and nurtured the house and garden, and today it is the epitome of relaxed yet comfortable good taste and refinement. Haslam explains the intricacies and delights of carefully mismatched antique and vintage furniture, a color palette of subtle, warming, welcoming tones, and a collection of art and objects that is nothing short of inspirational. The wealth of muted colors and visual interest makes each room feel larger, and this handsome, inspiring volume will appeal to anyone interested in interior design and the art of living beautifully, comfortably—and well.
Author: Carolina Herrera
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Published: 2023-09-05
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0847873714
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Inspired by the strong and full-of-fire Carolina Herrera woman, Wes Gordon partners with Elizaveta Porodina on painterly images merging bold colors and timeless beauty in a cinematic style. The sophistication and modern femininity of the American fashion house Carolina Herrera is captured in this evocative and vividly hued volume photographed by Elizaveta Porodina. A collaborative series of images, first created in 2020 and all taken over Zoom, feature Porodina’s signature blurred, painterly style—an effect achieved through complex lighting techniques and equipment—to capture the brand’s Resort and Spring 2022 collections in a dreamy, otherworldly light. Inspired by dance and the work of fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez, this mesmerizing tome is flooded with photography of models and dancers in motion to reflect the vibrant energy and optimism of the clothing. Ethereal beauties wear ball gown skirts in graphic rose prints from Resort, a striped black and white strapless dress from Spring, and bold, jewel-toned voluminous outfits in shades of pink and red, along with close-ups of jewelry, leather goods, and eyewear.
Author: Carolina Herrera
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Published: 2016-10-11
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0847849805
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Perennial favorites on red carpets around the world, Herrera's gowns are favored by First Ladies (from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama), celebrities (Renee Zellweger, Tina Fey, Penelope Cruz), international royalty, and her own faithful clientele for their refinement, timelessness, glamour, and romance. This first book on her design career is to be released on the occasion of the house’s thirty-fifth anniversary. The first name in American elegance, Carolina Herrera has distinguished herself in the global fashion world with a style that exudes luxury, femininity, and impeccable taste. A true empress of style, she has inspired the likes of pop-art icon Andy Warhol and legendary Vogue editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland (who encouraged Herrera to open her fashion house in 1981) with a style that exudes luxury, femininity, and impeccable taste. The first complete portrait of this influential designer’s career, this monograph is both a celebration of three-and-a-half decades of the house’s work and a look forward. Organized into chapters that highlight signatures of Herrera’s work, the book illustrates the distinctive innovation and caliber of her designs (she is one of the few American designers who still employ couture-trained ateliers team). The text, by veteran fashion writer J.J. Martin, includes quotes by colleagues and friends, interviews, and behind-the-scenes reporting. In addition to archival images, the lavish visual materials include new photography of Herrera’s work from her 1981 debut to the present. Art directed by Fabien Baron, this book is an exciting look at one of the leading figures in American fashion.
Author: Heather Clawson
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781576876077
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Heather Clawson's wildly popular blog Habitually Chic collected the finer things in life: high fashion, fine art, interior design and arresting architecture. Now she narrows her vision in this stunning photographic collection that offers an intimate look into the workspaces of the world's foremost cultural generators. Clawson showcases the studious, workshops, offices and creative sanctuaries of cultural icons, including Jenna Lyons and Frank Muytjens of J. Crew, James de Givenchy of TAFFIN and potter Jonathan Adler, along with many more.
Author: Gamez-Gutierrez, Jorge
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2021-03-05
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1799835707
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fundamental process for a company to achieve stable growth levels over time in a highly competitive economy is the ability to improve, adapt, and overcome a variety of challenges, whether they be internally or externally based. Therefore, being capable of understanding how any operational changes or improvements impact consumers must likewise be taken into consideration. Entrepreneurial Innovation for Securing Long-Term Growth in a Short-Term Economy is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of corporate decision making on the overall success of a company in the long term. While highlighting topics including organizational values, trust management, and social entrepreneurship, this book is ideally designed for entrepreneurs, executives, business consultants, researchers, industry professionals, and students who want to improve their understanding of the strategic role of entrepreneurial innovation at different levels defined by globalized markets inserted into the information and knowledge society.
Author: Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2015-07-28
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This insightful book introduces the most important trends, people, events, and products of popular culture in Latin America and the Caribbean. In recent times, Latin American influences have permeated American culture through music, movies, television, and literature. This sweeping volume serves as a ready-reference guide to pop culture in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, focusing on Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Costa Rica, among other areas. The work encourages hands-on engagement with the popular culture in these places, making such suggestions as Brazilian films to rent or where to find Venezuelan music on the Internet. To start, the book covers various perspectives and issues of these regions, including the influence of the United States, how the idea of machismo reflects on the portrayal of women in these societies, and the representation of Latino-Caribo cultures in film and other mediums. Entries cover key trends, people, events, and products from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. Each section gives detailed information and profound insights into some of the more academic—and often controversial—debates on the subject, while the inclusion of the Internet, social media, and video games make the book timely and relevant.
Author: Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-07-10
Total Pages: 591
ISBN-13: 3030503410
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume LNCS 12204 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Business, Government, and Organizations, HCIBGO 2020, which was held in July 2020 as part of HCI International 2020 in Copenhagen, Denmark.* 1439 papers and 238 posters were accepted for publication after a careful reviewing process. The 42 papers presented in this volume are organized in topical sections named: digital transformation and intelligent data analysis and social media, digital commerce and marketing. *The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chapter “The Effect of Queuing Technology on Customer Experience in Physical Retail Environments” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
