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English
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Brandi Maxwell is living the dream as an intern at prestigious New York fashion house Simon Van Doren. Except "living the dream" looks more like scrubbing puke from couture dresses worn by hard-partying models and putting up with microaggressions from her white colleagues. Still, she can't help but fangirl over Simon's it-girl daughter, Taylor. Until one night, at a glamorous Van Doren party, when Brandi overhears something she shouldn't have, and...
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Series
Publisher
Berkeley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Fabric shop owner Polyester Monroe can get tangled up in textiles, but it's murder that really throws her for a loop in the latest mystery from the national bestselling author of Crushed Velvet . The time has come for San Ladrón, California's annual Miss Tangorli beauty pageant, and Poly has agreed to use Material Girl's inventory of shimmery silks to create embellished gowns fit for a crown. But when millionaire Harvey Halliwell--the man who revived...
Author
Series
Maverick Junction novels volume 3
Publisher
Forever Yours
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Poor seamstress Sira Quiroga forges a new identity during the Spanish Civil War and rises to the most sought-after couture designer in North Africa, where she is enlisted to pass coded information to the British Secret Service.
45) Beach colors
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
While renowned designer Margaux Sullivan was presenting her highly praised collection during New York City's Fashion Week, her husband was cleaning out their bank account. A week after he disappeared, the bank foreclosed on Margaux's apartment and business. She returns to the small coastal town of Crescent Cove, Connecticut, where she once knew love, joy, and family before she put them behind her on the climb to fame. Margaux is soon rediscovering...
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Series
Publisher
Grace Abraham Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Budding retro fashion designer and entrepreneur Amanda Tucker is thrilled about making costumes for Winter Garden High School's production of Besuty and the Beast. But when the play's director Sandra Kelly is poisoned, AManda realizes there's a murderer in their midst. She's determined to keep herself and the students safe, so when her ghostly fashionista friend Max suggests they investigate, Amanda roll sup her sleeves and prepares to follow the...
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Series
Rock band (Dawn Ryder) volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A partnership with the hottest new rock band, Toxsin, is a major opportunity for Kate's small custom leather shop, but she's determined to resist her burning attraction to the lead guitarist, Syon Braden. Sex is a commodity in his world, and that's just not enough for her. Or so she thought. With the multiplatinum success of his band, Syon thought he had everything he'd ever wanted{u2026}and then he met Kate. He knows that sleeping with her could...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A riveting, inspiring memoir of one woman's escape from an extremist religious sect and an extraordinary rise from housewife to shoe designer, to CEO and co-owner of the modeling agency Elite World Group. Ever since she was a child, every aspect of Julia Haart's life-what she wore, what she ate, what she thought-was controlled by the dictates of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. At nineteen, after a lifetime spent caring for her seven younger siblings, she...
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Antique-store owner Cricket Crosby's life is turned upside down when she discovers that the rumors of her husband's affair aren't just leisurely southern gossip. Her plan:...enlist the help of her new assistant, Ruby and make her husband pay. Ruby knows how quickly everything changes. After a dicey past, she's determined to forge a new future by working for Cricket and reinventing herself as a designer"--
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English
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Abandoned by their family, Antoinette and Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel grew up under the guidance of pious nuns preparing them for simple lives as the wives of tradesmen or shopkeepers. When they came of age, the sisters set out together with a fierce determination to prove themselves worthy to a society that has never accepted them. Their journey propelled them out of poverty and to the stylish cafés of Moulins, the dazzling performance halls of Vichy--...
53) Zoolander
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
3-time winner of the Male Model of the Year, Derek, loses out the fourth time to rival, Hansen. Now the ridiculously good-looking supermodel must save the world from an evil clothes manufacturer.
Author
Series
Secret Spy Society volume 2
Publisher
Viking Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After officially naming themselves the Petite Private Eyes, Peggy, Rita, and Dot are ready to take on a new assignment from the Lady Spies. The Fashion Twins, two local designers, have been robbed! When the girls go undercover to investigate, they find themselves joining a curious scout troop run by a mysterious scout leader. With the help of the Lady Spies and a feisty pet cheetah, will the girls crack the case and make some new friends?"--Amazon.ca....
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Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On the island of Penang, Jimmy Choo is born into a family of shoemakers. At his father's side, he learns to make all kinds of shoes-loafers, stilettos, slippers, and more. After learning all he can at home, Jimmy immigrates to London, where he can study shoemaking by day and English by night. Nothing comes easy for newcomer Jimmy, but he works hard until he can launch his own business. At his Lucky Shoes, Jimmy specializes in shoes made just for...
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Influential designer Harris Reed explores the world of gender-defying fashion in this richly illustrated monograph. In Fluid, revolutionary fashion designer Harris Reed introduces the world to a new era in fluid fashion. At the center of Reed's sartorial journey has always been his desire to change the way people express their identities through clothing. Fluidity's essence is adaptable, evolutionary, and dynamic, and Reed's work constantly disrupts...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Little black dresses. Fake pearls. Jersey knit. Blazers. Ballet flats. Today{u2014}and for nearly the last hundred years{u2014}we all see some version of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel every time we pass a woman on the street. But few among us realize that Chanel's role in the events of the twentieth century was as pervasive as her influence on fashion, or how deeply she absorbed and then brilliantly reimagined the historical currents around her. Here,...
Author
Publisher
Strebor Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In this tale of love and obsession set against a picturesque Seattle backdrop, the lives of four successful thirty-somethings collide in a life-altering moment that transforms loneliness into total destruction"--Page [4] of cover.
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