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The Style Thesaurus Screen Style
Style can be used to fit in or to stand out, to send different messages and, with the right knowledge, it can also be adapted to mood or occasion. The Style Thesaurus examines a wide range of looks, investigates their roots in history and culture, and shows how to curate or combine them.
Hannah Kane
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• The essential wardrobe companion for all fashion lovers
Be it Retro, Polo, Maximalist, Minimalist, Beatnik or Classic, no style of dress exists in a vacuum. All are connected, forming threads in time that weave their way towards the present. And we are all stylists, assembling meaning and telling a story through the clothes we wear.
Organized in sections reflecting the origins of the styles, each entry in the thesaurus includes near-synonymous terms for the style, cross-references to related entries, and ideas for sartorial pairings. Fully illustrated with archival images, catwalk looks and street shots, the entries also specify the colour, fabric and styling details needed to perfect a look.
Hannah Kane is journalist, writer and Editor-in-Chief of style and culture magazine PHOENIX, which she co-founded. She has lectured on wide range of fashion communication courses and is an Associate Lecturer at the London College of Fashion.
There has yet to be a definitive, genderneutral book on the meaning of style, and this is the gap The Style Thesaurus fills. At once a lexicon of fashion and a style guide, it is the essential wardrobe companion for all fashion lovers.
The Style Thesaurus
Marnie Fogg
• A showcase of beautiful, stylish and often covetable fashion and clothing on iconic series of the small screen
• Illustrated with screen stills, this book covers 50 diverse television series that have helped set the standard for fashion on screen
Style can be used to fit in or to stand out, to send different messages and, with the right knowledge, it can also be adjusted according to mood or occasion. The Style Thesaurus examines the semiotics of a wide range of looks, investigates their roots in history and culture, and shows how they can be curated or combined.
Hannah Kane
