British Costumes Designers

Character Costume Figure Drawing is an essential guide that will improve your drawing skills and costume renderings. Step-by-step visuals illustrate the how-tos of drawing body parts, costumes, accessories, faces, children, and different character archetypes, such as maternal, elderly, sassy, sexy, and evil. By focusing on the foundations of drawing bodies, including body proportion, bone structure, body masses, facial expressions, and appendages, this guide shows you how to develop sketches fr... [Read More]

Charades adult british red coat costume has a red costume coat with gold button details and tan trim, pocket flaps and sleeve cuffs, tan vest, lace jabot, lace cuffs, and tan pants. From inspiration, through design and construction, Charades takes pride in quality materials and excellent finished products.

Pat Albeck, who died in September 2017, was a prolific and well-known textile and homewear designer. Pat started work in the 1950s and continued working throughout her life, including for John Lewis, The National Trust, and Emma Bridgewater. She’s most famous as being "Queen of the Tea Towel," particularly with the National Trust, and worked with them to produce tea towels from the 1970s to the present day. The book will show 100 of Pat's tea towel designs, and her son Matthew Rice (a... [Read More]

For readers of Lilac Girls and The Nightingale comes an internationally bestselling World War II novel that spans generations, crosses oceans, and proves just how much two young women are willing to sacrifice for love and family.1940: As the Germans advance upon Paris, young seamstress Estella Bissette is forced to flee everything she's ever known. She's bound for New York City with her signature gold dress, a few francs, and a dream: to make her mark on the world of fashion. Present day: Fabien... [Read More]

Set in the glamour of the 1950's post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of the British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock's life until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once contro... [Read More]

C. F. A. Voysey (1857–1941) advocated honest and thoughtful design, believed in high standards of craftsmanship, and encouraged the use of only the finest materials. His simple, elegant work—often enhanced by highly symbolic decoration—was considered revolutionary in his time and continues to enchant today. This definitive volume on Voysey’s design life focuses on the English architect as a designer of furniture, metalwork, and textiles, providing a new analysis of his characteristic mot... [Read More]

No one interested in fashion, style, or the high-flying intrigues of café society will want to miss Christopher Petkanas’s exuberantly entertaining oral biography Loulou & Yves: The Untold Story of Loulou de La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent.Dauntless, “in the bone” style made Loulou de La Falaise one of the great fashion firebrands of the twentieth century. Descending in a direct line from Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli, she was celebrated at her death in 2011, aged just sixty... [Read More]