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This series looks at the history of 20th-century fashion in a unique way: through 26 different garments and fashion trends that are explored in a tongue-in-cheek, yet informative, manner. With the help of rare archival images, A Stitch in Time shows how political, technological, cultural, and social changes have each affected the way we dress. 26-part series, 13 minutes each.
This five-part series offers an insider’s view of how the fashion industry designs, manufactures, and markets its fabulous wares, as well as how tomorrow’s designers are trained. A Deutsche Welle Production. 5-part series, 26 minutes each.
This video follows eight up-and-coming fashion designers as they discuss the skills and characteristics needed to make it in the fashion industry. (26 minutes)
This five-part series provides a comprehensive overview of fashion merchandising, including wholesaling, retailing, visual merchandising, and sales skills. 5-part series.
"Passion for fashion 3-Documentary films Disc set. Unzipped (73 min.); The September issue (90 min.); Ready to wear (133 min.).
The Extremes of fashion [videorecording] : from now and yesterday by Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences ; Films Media Group
Call Number: WVC AV Circ. Desk DVD 2009-21
Publication Date: 2008
This program illustrates the cycles of women's couture through the '50s, '60s, and '70s -- and the portrayal of women in the media as they progressed through the postwar decade, the civil rights movement, Beatlemania, the Vietnam War, and the era of women's lib. Contains nudity
While researching period clothing for a school play, class project, and costume party, three teens magically find themselves in ancient civilization. Viewers travel along as they experience what people wore in the Middle Ages, Renaissance, 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, and all the decades in the 1900s
"Called Britain's most consistently original, outrageous, eccentric, and controversial designer, Vivienne Westwood is also an esteemed professor of fashion at Berlin's Academy of Arts. This program profiles Westwood while capturing the student experience under her rigorous tutelage"--Container
Examines the ways in which the textile industry is reducing, reusing, and recycling clothing and other textiles. Features designers discussing the design and make process, considers the future of the recycled textile design industry, and visits a textile reprocessing plant. Includes examples of shoes made from old tires and seatbelts, bags made from recycled airline seats, and high fashion tailoring created from secondhand shop finds. Also shows jute sacks being reprocessed for the construction industry