Showing posts with label Prestel. Show all posts
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Friday, September 20, 2013

{Review} 13 Fashion Styles Children Should Know @Prestel_UK


This fun and informative book on major fashion styles from the early 20th century to today is the perfect accessory for budding fashion enthusiasts everywhere. Many of today's top designers can trace their obsession with fashion to their early years--but they didn't have a book like this to help and inspire them. Spanning a century, this book focuses on the trends and styles that marked a definitive shift in how people dressed. Lively spreads filled with illustrations, sidebar information, important events, and designer profiles allow readers to watch hemlines and shoulder pads rise and fall, understand the effects of culture and history, and trace the origins of popular trends such as Harajuku, preppy, and hipster. An excellent introduction to fashion history for young readers, this book is a visual guide to the changing styles that have defined the past 100 years.





Simone Werle is a mother as well as an author of numerous books, including Fashionista - A Century of Style, published by Prestel.





A very cute and think hardback of the 13 fashion styles that kids should know.  This book gives children a wonderful easy to read book with a great timeline from the late 1880s to 2016.  With colored pictures to boot this is a wonderful addition to the other 13 books for kids out there.

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."

{Review} The Paintings that Revolutionized Art @Prestel_UK

The Paintings That Revolutionized Art
This beautifully illustrated, delightfully informative collection of 100 of the world's most significant paintings covers nearly every period, culture, and style. What makes the Book of Kells such an extraordinary example of the illuminated manuscript? Why is Durer's self-portrait so iconic? How did Turner's Rain, Steam, Speed turn the art world on its head? What's so great about Jasper Johns's Flag? And who was Whistler's mother, anyway? Art history is filled with paintings that shocked, intrigued, enraged, and mystified their audiences--paintings that exemplified the period in which they were created and forever changed the way we think. Here, 100 examples of these icons of art are presented in beautiful, high-quality reproductions. Each spread features comparative illustrations and details as well as an engaging text that explains why that particular painting belongs in the pantheon of world-changing art.
Claudia Stauble and Julie Kiefer are editors. They both live in Munich, Germany.



This beautiful hardback book with more than 200 illustrations.  If filled with beautiful art from the turn of the century on.  Its a must have book for art lover!

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."