"The gripping story of a woman who loses everything--her husband, her home, her sense of self and safety, and her freedom. Sydney Wells's perfect life with her wealthy, devoted husband vanishes when he dies suddenly in an accident. Widowed at forty-nine, she discovers he has failed to include her in his will. With Andrew's vicious daughters in control of his estate, and no home or money, Sydney finds a job in fashion, despite her own designer daughters'...

Examines the steps and people involved in creating a fashion for the runaway from the first sketches to the final fitting. Introduces readers to the jobs that fashion designers do, and features color photographs, fact boxes and diagrams, and a glossary.

Presents advice for breaking into a career in the fashion industry, including being a hair stylist, fashion writer, display designer, and costume designer. Offers advice and encouragement from professional fashion stylists.

Learn how to recycle old clothes into brand-new fashions with these fun do-it-yourself activities. Readers can practice basic sewing skills to make their t-shirts more stylish and unique. Photos, sidebars, and callouts help readers draw connections between new concepts in this book and other makers-related concepts they may already know. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information...

Fashion means everything to Violet Luciano; so does finishing design school. When she lands a summer internship at an up-and-coming fashion brand in Rome, she knows she's got to bring her A game. The interns will be competing against each other: whoever creates the best fashion design will be offered a job at a New York label. Violet is at the top of her class, but she's one of the only students who's approaching thirty. Chasing her dream has left...

The glamour, the style, the beautiful clothes--it all starts in the minds of creative and talented people, like the people you'll meet inside! Today's reluctant readers are easily drawn to the distractions of electronic games, DVDs, and TV. But what if they had a book series designed just for them? What if all the titles featured high-interest topics, rockin' designs, and language kids understand? Our Reading Rocks! series offers young readers books...

"After a few successful weeks of her internship with the famous fashion designer, Stefan Meyers, Chloe is asked to split her time between different departments--but her mentor in the new department is a very different person, and trying to please two masters at once is turning out to be more than a little stressful" --

"The Fashion Fairies use their magic accessories to make sure that fashion everywhere is fun and fresh. But when jealous Jack Frost steals their magic away, it could lead to a fashion flop! Luckily, Rachel and Kirsty are ready to dive into another fairy adventure...It's time to make costumes for the local fashion show auditions, but everything is going all wrong! Rachel and Kirsty have to help Tyra the Designer Fairy find her magical measuring tape--and...

While her sister studies ballet at Toronto's National Ballet of Canada, the Head of the Wardrobe Department encourages eleven-year-old Pippa's interest in fashion and costume design.-- Pippa does not finish every activity she starts or get picked for everythingunlike her sister Verity. Pippa does, however, love to draw fashion designs in her special sketchbook, while she waits in the hallway to pick up Verity at ballet practice. Theres a big hullabaloo...

"It's getting down to the wire on more than one of Chloe's senior year responsibilities. Portfolio and application deadlines are around the corner, as is Winter Formal, and Chloe has a big decision ahead of her--New York or LA? With pros and cons for both locations, it's up to Chloe to make the final cut and decide where her future will unfold." -- Page [4] cover.