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Most fashion is designed in the world's richest countries, and made in the world's poorest. Who is really paying the price for trendy, low-cost clothing? Using the international fashion industry as a case study, this program helps students understand globalization, examining its causes and effects, pros and cons, and the role played by multinational corporations. The video goes inside homes and factories in Bangladesh to compare the lives of textile...
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During the 1950s, popular culture expected women to play the part of the honest, caring, and conservative bastion, and the fashion styles of the decade reflected that. Women's bathing suits covered the whole torso and were often skirted. This was in stark contrast to later trends. In the 1960s women's fashion had taken a turn to showing more skin. The playful mod fashion meant shortened hemlines, funkier prints, and skimpier bathing suits and bikinis....
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It's one thing to launch a career on a reality TV show and quite another to become a successful designer through talent and tenacity alone. This video follows eight up-and-coming fashion designers as they discuss the skills and characteristics needed to make it in the fashion industry. Candid interviews with young designers tackle questions about careers in fashion, including: What personality traits do you need to have? Where do designers get ideas?...
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Somewhere along the line clothing met fashion, and neither has been the same since. In this program, historian Valerie Steele, of the Fashion Institute of Technology, and other experts interpret the history of humankind-from the ancients to the moderns-through the intriguing context of costume. Topics include the origins of clothing; symbolism associated with clothing, such as gender and status; sexist aspects of fashion, from corsets to miniskirts;...
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With its ability to create emotion and influence moods, color can be used as a powerful tool in interior design and fashion. In this program interior designer Brandi Hagen discusses the color system, the history of color study, and the development of color theories. Viewers learn the difference between hue, shade, tint, value, and chroma; primary and secondary colors and warm and cool colors; and monochromatic, analogous, and complementary colors....
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Carpet designed specifically to assist the elderly, garments created to repel both fire and knives, highly desirable golden fleece that's impervious to decay, environmentally sound fiberglass made using local natural fibers… These are just a few of the items host John Watt gamely examines during this episode-and in doing so manages to get himself fleeced, burned, and stabbed. A part of Ever Wondered? (Series 1).
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Every outfit sends a message. This video shows how to send the right one at the appropriate time-without breaking the budget. Topics include the functional and social characteristics of clothes; the concepts of style and fashion; planning a wardrobe that accommodates work, school, and leisure; and shopping for value and price. Indispensable! Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational Standards including the NCLB Act.
9) Valentino
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We are used to the idea of the celebrity designer-thanks, largely, to Valentino Garavani, who is arguably the prototype. A ruler in the world of fashion for decades, he became entirely identified with the lifestyle of his rich and famous clientele to the point where the women he dressed-Jackie O and Elizabeth Taylor, to name only two-became known as "Val's Gals." This program offers a retrospective of the life and career of the ineffably chic fashion...
10) John Galliano
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Madness, delirium, and decadence - these are words that have attached themselves to John Galliano, whose sensibilities combine a reverence for the past that springs naturally from his Spanish roots and a sense of theater sharpened by his English upbringing. This program profiles the controversial fashionista, who has made a career of fashion "moments" ranging from a London graduation show in 1984 to couture work in Paris for Christian Dior. Over and...
11) Michael Kors
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In the fashion world-a novelty-crazed world with a notoriously short attention span-a moment is an incandescent flash, an unforgettable collision of style and substance that announces a designer's arrival. The Michael Kors moment has been 20 years in the making: two decades of orchestrating dozens of runway shows, sketching thousands of garments, fitting countless collections, and experiencing a million ups and downs along the way. This program introduces...
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Jean Paul Gaultier is the quintessential bad boy of French fashion and one of the industry's most flamboyant characters. His Gallic charm and tongue-in-cheek witticisms are reflected in collections that are as full of fantasy as they are of classical poise. This program profiles the fashion designer who put men in skirts and introduced lingerie as a fashion statement - a darling of the celebrity firmament with Madonna and Björk as two of his faithful...
13) Dolce & Gabbana
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Sex and celebrity, sacrilege and excess, trash, flash, and glamour drizzled with drama, scandal, and contradiction. It has all worked wonders for Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, and the celebration of all things wild and wonderful has not only made them multimillionaires - it has also turned them into fashion figureheads for 21st-century Italy. This program introduces viewers to the irreverent and irresistible Dolce & Gabbana.
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Teenage students spend most of their earned income on their wardrobes, and young adults spend up to ten percent of their full-time income likewise. This live-action video helps develop the skills needed to make smart decisions when purchasing clothing. It covers the importance of planning for purchases and illustrates how to take a clothing inventory. It also explains how personality, climate, and income influence what clothing we buy. A fashion coordinator...
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The fashion business is renowned for its competitiveness. How, then, do emerging fashion entrepreneurs get a foothold in this fast-paced field? Fashionable Business answers that question through the stories of three up-and-coming labels from Down Under-Dhini, Trimapee, and MaterialByProduct-and the visionary young designers behind them. Topics range from where they get their ideas and inspiration, to fabric types and manufacturing processes, to the...
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Take your students on a whirlwind tour of the natural world and the fashion world, ancient times and modern pastimes, and interiors and exteriors with this lively and entertaining video. Narrated by an award-winning actress, it will give them a thorough grounding in the timeless principles of design: balance, rhythm, scale, proportion, emphasis, and harmony. Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational Standards including the NCLB Act....
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Use this video to introduce your students to the elements of design: color, line, shape, form, pattern, and texture. In addition to the customary design disciplines-interior, clothing, landscape, and architecture-the video also features more unusual venues like the family dog, kids, and professional models. Called "a good introduction to the basic elements of design" by Instructional Video. Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational...
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As one of the brightest stars on the British fashion scene, the late Alexander McQueen pushed the limits of what's possible while sparking a good deal of controversy along the way. During the early years, his provocative shows were confrontational enough to qualify as performance art, but underneath the showmanship McQueen was a master technician with an imagination that catapulted his career from the raw edginess of London to the aristocratic atelier...
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When a play is performed, all eyes are on the actors-which means the costume department can make or break a production. This program introduces skills and responsibilities essential to theatrical costume design, technology, and management. After outlining the history of stage costuming, the video shows how an actor's attire reveals his or her character, how a designer researches and incorporates period dress styles, and how various fabrics, colors,...
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From Paris to London, Monte Carlo to Milan, and Munich to LA, taste-makers Li Edelkoort, Gucci's Tom Ford, and Werner Baldessarini, of Hugo Boss, seek to identify the spirit of the age wherever they can find it-and then translate it into the next big trend in fashions. In this program, Edelkoort, Ford, Baldessarini, and others unravel the intricacies of clothing-oriented trend-spotting. In addition, parallel examples of trend-spotting are drawn from...