Valerie Mendes, animée par une passion de toujours pour la narration, crée des récits captivants à travers divers genres. Ses œuvres se caractérisent par une profonde compréhension de la nature humaine et des interactions complexes entre les personnages. Après des carrières dans le journalisme et l'édition, Mendes a développé un style distinctif qui plonge le lecteur dans des décors historiques comme dans des dilemmes contemporains. Sa capacité à saisir les émotions et à dépeindre des personnages vivants rend ses livres inoubliables.
Mrs Lucy Wallace, Lady Duff Gordon as she became, transformed her business from a modest home-based dressmakers into the leading international fashion enterprise, Lucile Limited. This book focuses on 'Lucile Limited's Autumn 1905' fashion album, which features hand-painted plates and samples of fabrics and trimmings.
Presenting the history of fashion, this title tells the story of men's and women's fashionable dress. It features over 200 illustrations which show clothes for different occasions, and also includes various fashion accessories.
An authoritative account of the history of fashion from 1900 to today, fully illustrated in color. From the turn-of-the-century S-bend silhouette to celebrity couture of the new millennium and the evolution of streetwear, this comprehensive survey explores the significant developments in fashion since 1900. Authors Amy de la Haye and Valerie Mendes focus on key movements and innovations in style for both men and women, and explore trends through the work of the most original and influential designers. Chapters are organized around crucial shifts in style and major world events, and exciting advances in fashion are placed within their socioeconomic, political, and cultural contexts. International in scope, this new edition includes updates to the text, including chapters on the most important new designers and the impact of online shopping. Fully illustrated in vibrant color throughout,Fashion Since 1900 includes a helpful reference section with an extensive bibliography.
This attractive series reveals the V&A;'s spectacular and extensive pattern collections. Each title in the series includes a free CD of high resolution images. Novelty Patterns showcases the innovative and fanciful decoration employed for lightweight fabrics made between the early 1920s and the late 1940s.
In the tradition of THE FORSYTE SAGA, a sweeping historical novel that spans three generations, telling the dark secrets of a family torn apart. Larkswood House. The very name suggests birdsong, peace and elegance. It is home to the Hamilton children - Edward, Cynthia and Harriet - who enjoy the freedom and excitement of privilege. But in the glorious summer of 1896, with absent parents and a departed governess, disaster strikes the family, leaving it cruelly divided. More than 40 years later, on the eve of the Second World War, Louisa Hamilton, newly presented at court but struck down with glandular fever, is sent to Larkswood to recuperate. There, for the first time, she meets her grandfather, Edward, home after decades in India. But as Louisa begins to fall under the spell of Larkswood, she realises it holds the key to the mystery that shattered her family two generations before. Will she find the courage to unravel the dark secrets of the past? And can Larkswood ever become home to happiness again?
Contains words by Valerie Mendes and pictures by John Lobban.This first picture dictionary is for young people learning English. It contains 138 illustrations of the most useful everyday words, each clearly labelled, which provide an easy-to-remember introduction to the English alphabet and a first English vocabulary. Also listed are numbers 1-20, the days of the week and the months of the year. Advice and notes for parents and teachers is included.
When Beatrice married Victor Davenport she intended to have his children. He's a wealthy banker, used to getting his own way. Neither of them bargained for one summer's evening and its unexpected guest. Set in London, New York and Oxfordshire in 1911, this new novel explores a British marriage under threat, a family wrecked by infidelity and scandal - and an explosion of forbidden love.
After more than sixty years in publishing, Valerie Mendes steps aside from her own fiction to offer us a unique glimpse into the professional, pioneering and private strands of her life.In Not Only But Also we read about the major events that shaped her work, the people who encouraged her to write, and those who remain closest to her heart.Honest, witty, revealing and brave, Not Only But Also celebrates a unique and fascinating life.“I found my mother’s Memoir very touching.” – Sir Sam Mendes CBE, Theatre and Film Director
People, places, things and ideas dominate this collection of poems from Valerie Mendes, whose first offerings were published when she was six years old. Here is her choice of her Top Seventy poems. They take us from her London childhood to her years spent in Oxford and Woodstock, with a special section about birds in woods, farms and on the coast, to others dedicated to the gardens surrounding Blenheim Palace and the special magic of Oxfordshire's Wytham Woods. Polished, shining, short, pithy and true, this delightful collection marks the end of the pandemic and celebrates the dawning of a new creative day.
Eleanor embarks on a journey driven by her father's dying wish to find Moira, a quest that takes her from Oxford to a secluded cottage in Cornwall. As she searches for answers, she encounters new people who may alter the course of her life. The narrative intertwines themes of family loyalty, unresolved pasts, and the weight of promises made long ago, challenging Eleanor to confront her memories and the legacy of her father's love.