Royal Style Wars
Author : Lesley Ebbetts
Publisher : Crescent
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 1990-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780517692394
Author : Lesley Ebbetts
Publisher : Crescent
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 1990-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780517692394
Author : Lesley Ebbetts
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 1990
Category :
ISBN : 9780947338114
Author : Lesley Ebbetts
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 21,75 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Fashion
ISBN : 9780283996702
Author : Peter York
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 11,8 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Ulinka Rublack
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 1474249906
This captivating book reproduces arguably the most extraordinary primary source documents in fashion history. Providing a revealing window onto the Renaissance, they chronicle how style-conscious accountant Matthäus Schwarz and his son Veit Konrad experienced life through clothes, and climbed the social ladder through fastidious management of self-image. These bourgeois dandies' agenda resonates as powerfully today as it did in the sixteenth century: one has to dress to impress, and dress to impress they did. The Schwarzes recorded their sartorial triumphs as well as failures in life in a series of portraits by illuminists over 60 years, which have been comprehensively reproduced in full color for the first time. These exquisite illustrations are accompanied by the Schwarzes' fashion-focussed yet at times deeply personal captions, which render the pair the world's first fashion bloggers and pioneers of everyday portraiture. The First Book of Fashion demonstrates how dress – seemingly both ephemeral and trivial – is a potent tool in the right hands. Beyond this, it colorfully recaptures the experience of Renaissance life and reveals the importance of clothing to the aesthetics and every day culture of the period. Historians Ulinka Rublack's and Maria Hayward's insightful commentaries create an unparalleled portrait of sixteenth-century dress that is both strikingly modern and thorough in its description of a true Renaissance fashionista's wardrobe. This first English translation also includes a bespoke pattern by TONY award-winning costume designer and dress historian Jenny Tiramani, from which readers can recreate one of Schwarz's most elaborate and politically significant outfits.
Author : Dennis Friedman
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 10,98 MB
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0720618339
In exploring Royal dynamics, Inheritance sheds light on problems found in any familyOn its first publication in the 1990s, Dennis Friedman's Inheritance caused a furor in England as he traced the many problems of the Royal family as it was then back to Queen Victoria's nursery, unveiling a host of psychodramas played out against a privileged background of English palaces and Scottish castles. In a post-Diana age, the arrival of a new Prince George to the seemingly stable and blissfully happy William and Kate seems to refute Fiedman's thesis—but what of the notoriously wayward Prince Harry? Many questions are raised in this book addressing the complex and turbulent royal relationships, perhaps the most fundamental being the rigid and traditional royal upbringing which still awaits the baby prince. As the royal line is followed down the generations no direct descendent is overlooked and no issue is sidestepped.
Author : Andrzej Olechnowicz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 17,58 MB
Release : 2007-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521844614
What has been the function of monarchy in the political and social life of Britain?
Author : Colin McDowell
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 14,17 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN :
Author : Correlli Barnett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9780571300396
The accepted interpretation of Britain's wartime role as an island sea power is challenged by Correlli Barnett's brilliant demonstration that the dependence on seashore imports of food and raw materials, together with the obligations of Empire, were less a form of strength to Britain than a weakness. Topics discussed in this book range from strategic debates in London and Washington to gripping descriptions of the Royal Navy in action: the remorseless struggle against the U-boat in the Atlantic, the desperate convoy battles in the Mediterranean and the Arctic, and the battles in the Far East. It weaves in the rivalry between Allied and German technology and the all-important secret war of the cryptographers. 'This outstanding military historian has turned to maritime war and written an authoritative, meticulously researched and stirring account of the Royal Navy's part in World War II.' Admiral of the Fleet Lord Lewin of Greenwich, KG, GCB, LVO, DSC
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Best books
ISBN :