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A lively journey through 20th-century fashion, offering readers practical tips for blending vintage pieces with modern style while dispelling common myths about vintage fashion.Step into the world of vintage fashion with Authentic Vintage, an engaging exploration of 20th-century style that highlights both haute couture and everyday fashion. This book takes you through the decades, uncovering how trends shaped the lives of ordinary people. Featuring archival documents, insights from the author’s popular social media channels, and stunning illustrations, it demystifies vintage fashion, showcasing both its glamorous and mundane aspects. The author (@marjorielenoan), a young fashion enthusiast, offers fresh perspectives, dispelling myths and providing a clear view of the past. Each chapter includes tips on incorporating vintage pieces into modern wardrobes and recommends must-visit shops and brands. Perfect for fashion students, collectors, or history buffs, this book is both a historical exploration and a practical guide. The ultimate guide to embracing the timeless charm of fashion’s past.

Unlock your artistic potential with this comprehensive portrait drawing guide, with 50 step-by-step models to improve facial placement and expressions and refine your skills from sketching to shading. ?Drawing hands realistically can be challenging for beginners due to their complex structure and numerous joints, which change shape with every movement. This book offers 50 models, organized by difficulty, with step-by-step instructions, from initial sketches to shading and detailing. Each page includes a dedicated space for practice: observe the model, note its unique features, draw, erase and try again, all the while refining your technique. Remember: practice makes perfect!

In this volume on men’s clothing, part of our series on fashion patternmaking techniques by renowned author and designer Antonio Donnanno, readers will acquire the technical and stylistic knowledge they need to ensure their sartorial creations are technically flawless and stay fresh and new. After an introduction to the essential patternmaking tools, basic fabric notions, anatomy and measurement of the male body, industrial sizes and tailoring terms, the author describes in detail and step by step the making of patterns, covering a wealth of types of men’s garments for all lifestyles and circumstances: from shirts to jackets, waistcoats, trousers, knitwear and underwear. All is presented with clear and easy-to-follow instructions and illustrations which indicate the author’s long experience both as a teacher and as a consultant to international firms and pattern publishers. Aimed at professional tailors, teachers and students, sewing lovers and industrial sample makers, this new volume in the Donnanno Fashion Patternmaking series is a useful and practical tool for meeting contemporary menswear tailoring challenges and needs.

A wealth of inventive and beautifully designed paper books with templates on how to make them