Kilobyte Couture

Kilobyte Couture
Author: Brittany Forks
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2009
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0823099024

Provides instructions for making twenty-five jewelry projects using computer components that can be found in local stores, including bracelets, rings, and earrings, enhanced with illustrations.

Sustainability in Luxury Fashion Business

Sustainability in Luxury Fashion Business
Author: Chris K. Y. Lo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2018-05-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811088780

This book explores new approaches and strategies that luxury fashion brands could adopt in their operations toward sustainability goals. It addresses the unique challenges faced by luxury fashion brands, given that concepts of luxury and sustainability may be conflicting. In doing so, it elaborates on how fashion brands need to manage their suppliers to comply with and improve social and environmental conditions, the pressure to fulfill the triple-bottom lines, consumer demands for transparency, and social media and its advantages in achieving sustainability goals. Exploring the notion that luxury fashion brands are in a better position to pursue superior sustainability performance, it presents research that highlights how the consequences of non-compliance could have more devastating effects on luxury brands than on mass-market brands. The book is a valuable resource for academics and practitioners in the field of business, sustainability, and fashion.

Kb's Italy

Kb's Italy
Author: Clare Brown
Publisher: Karen Brown's Guides
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2006
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781933810089

From the southern shores of Sicily to the northern mountains and all points in between seven regional itineraries explore Italy from tip to toe. Features the major cities of Rome, Venice, Florence and Milan as well as the backroads of Umbria and hilltowns of Tuscany. Over 260 fabulous hotels. Great food, great wine, an ideal climate, gracious people and rich cultural tradition make Italy a traveler's dream destination.

Fashion Curating

Fashion Curating
Author: Annamari Vänskä
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2017-12-28
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1474287123

As the practice of fashion curation extends into commercial galleries, public and retail spaces, and even to the individual self, professional concepts of 'curating' are undergoing rapid change. Today, everyone is seemingly able to 'curate', but where does this leave the traditional understanding of curation as clothing collected and displayed in a museum? This thought-provoking volume explores the practice of fashion curating in the 21st century, bridging the gap between methods of display and notions of 'the curatorial' in fashion exhibitions, commercial settings, and the virtual world. From fashion's earliest forays into the museum to creative collaborations between luxury fashion brands and artists, this book challenges understandings of fashion curation by drawing on the palpably new spaces, places, and actors in today's curating scene. Exploring poetic and performative museum displays in venues such as the V&A, Somerset House, MoMu and the Royal Ontario Museum, alongside the ways that brands such as Dior, Chanel and Louis Vuitton have made use of 'the curatorial' in their own commercial strategies, Fashion Curating asks pressing questions about controversial funding and collaboration from the commercial fashion sector, and the limitations of producing exhibitions that are at the same time critical and popular. Bringing together approaches from fashion curators, designers and world-renowned academics, curation is positioned as a critical practice that opens up new ways of conceptualizing and theorizing fashion, challenging how we think and what we already know.

A Companion to British Literature, Volume 4

A Companion to British Literature, Volume 4
Author: Robert DeMaria, Jr.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 663
Release: 2013-12-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1118731786

A Companion to British Literature, Victorian and Twentieth-Century Literature, 1837 - 2000

Fashion

Fashion
Author: Akiko Fukai
Publisher: Taschen
Total Pages: 756
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9783822812068

Illustrates a wide range of historical garments, underwear, shoes and fashion accessories dating from the eighteenth century to the present day.

Contemporary Practices in Bio-art

Contemporary Practices in Bio-art
Author: Lilia Chak
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 563
Release: 2023-08-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1527519538

This book explores the emergence of a new subdivision in Bio-art — Dendro-art, the interrelationship between humans and plants, the recreation of vanished species of plants, the ecological education of the population, and, more broadly, environmental protection. The innovative quality of this work lies in the fact that many aspects of the phenomenon of Bio-Art are looked at from a new angle: the author of the present study is herself an artist who has received academic training in the field. Therefore, she able to examine the works of bio-artists both from the “inside” and the “outside”. The conclusions drawn from the study may be of use to students, scholars, and teachers preparing courses in art studies, technology, and natural sciences. The study materials may also be used for setting up exhibitions and compiling catalogues on various types of Bio-technological art.

Name Reactions for Homologation, Part 2

Name Reactions for Homologation, Part 2
Author: Jie Jack Li
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 874
Release: 2009-05-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0470487038

"A valuable addition to the literature by any measure and surely will prove its merit in years to come. The new knowledge that arises with its help will be impressive and of great benefit to humankind." —From the Foreword by E. J. Corey, Nobel Prize Laureate An invaluable guide to name reactions and reagents for homologations Name Reactions for Homologations, Part II of Wiley's Comprehensive Name Reactions series comprises a comprehensive treatise on name reactions for homologations. With contributions from world-recognized authorities in the field, this reference offers an up-to-date, concise compilation of the most commonly used and widely known name reactions and reagents. Part II discusses Rearrangements, Asymmetric C-C Bond Formation, and Miscellaneous Homologation Reactions. Arranged alphabetically by name reactions, the listing provides: Description of the reaction Historical perspective A mechanism for the reaction Variations and improvements on the reaction Synthetic utilities of the reaction Experimental details References to the current primary literature Armed with this invaluable resource, both students and professionals will have at their fingertips a comprehensive guide to important mechanisms and phenomena in homologation.