Here is the life of iconic fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, who as a little girl in Rome, was told by her own mamma that she was brutta. Ugly. So she decided to seek out beauty around her, and found it everywhere. What is beauty? Elsa wondered. She looked everywhere for beauty until something inside of Elsa blossomed, and she became an artist with an incredible imagination. ...(展开全部)

The second volume in Prestel's Whole story series is a lavish, nicely priced, and authoritative book tracing the complete evolution of fashion, from togas to Tory Burch.This enthralling book takes readers through every major era of fashion history: classical Greece and Rome; the court dress of the Tang Dynasty; the emergence of the Japanese kimono; early Native American and Pre...(展开全部)

玛尼·弗格（Marnie Fogg），时尚专家、时尚媒体顾问，纺织业资深讲师，艺术设计理论与实践硕士。玛尼·弗格生于英国诺丁汉郡的伊斯特伍德。由于早年对服装有着极大的热情，16岁时，她进入诺丁汉艺术大学学习时尚。继为针织品奢侈品牌John Ashpool和印染工作室Sue Kemp工作后，她为不同等级的服装市场做了多年的设计。全方位的时尚与纺织行业工作经验让弗格成为高级讲师，她在威尔士设立了最高水平的时尚课程。移居德比郡后，玛尼成为诺丁汉和德比多所大学的客座讲师，同时攻读美术理论与实践硕士学位，还在德比、德国比勒费尔德和希腊雅典举行了作品展。从2003年开始，她成为时尚畅销书作家，出版了一系列有影响的时尚类著作，包括《时装店：20世纪60年代的文化现象》（2003）、《时装印花设计》（2006）、《时装店内部设计》（2007）、《古着针织衫》（201...(展开全部)

The second volume in Prestel's Whole story series is a lavish, nicely priced, and authoritative book tracing the complete evolution of fashion, from togas to Tory Burch.This enthralling book takes readers through every major era of fashion history: classical Greece and Rome; the court dress of the Tang Dynasty; the emergence of the Japanese kimono; early Native American and Pre...(展开全部)

玛尼·弗格（Marnie Fogg），时尚专家、时尚媒体顾问，纺织业资深讲师，艺术设计理论与实践硕士。玛尼·弗格生于英国诺丁汉郡的伊斯特伍德。由于早年对服装有着极大的热情，16岁时，她进入诺丁汉艺术大学学习时尚。继为针织品奢侈品牌John Ashpool和印染工作室Sue Kemp工作后，她为不同等级的服装市场做了多年的设计。全方位的时尚与纺织行业工作经验让弗格成为高级讲师，她在威尔士设立了最高水平的时尚课程。移居德比郡后，玛尼成为诺丁汉和德比多所大学的客座讲师，同时攻读美术理论与实践硕士学位，还在德比、德国比勒费尔德和希腊雅典举行了作品展。从2003年开始，她成为时尚畅销书作家，出版了一系列有影响的时尚类著作，包括《时装店：20世纪60年代的文化现象》（2003）、《时装印花设计》（2006）、《时装店内部设计》（2007）、《古着针织衫》（201...(展开全部)

Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called Spider Stories .

Many African stories, whether or not they are about Kwaku Ananse the "spider man," are called, "Spider Stories." This book is about how that came to be. The African storyteller begins: "We do not really mean, we do not really mean that what we are about to say is true. A Story, a story; let it come, let it go." And it tells that long, long ago there were no stories on earth f...(展开全部)

Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called Spider Stories .