Fashion & Society

Through 100 groundbreaking dresses, The Dress traces the past and present influences and reinterpretations in clothing design. From the Victorian c...

Cristobal Balenciaga (1895-1972) remains one of the most revered and enigmatic of fashion designers. Here, breathtaking illustrations reveal why he...

"A true collector’s item…" — Tim Chan, Rolling Stone "Filled to the brim with everything from Harry's colour palettes to his inspiration, this pick...

In Elegance: The Beauty of French Fashion, internationally renowned fashion illustrator Megan Hess explores ten of France's best-loved designers as...

Forewords by Jean-Claude Biver (CEO of Tag Heuer) and Aurel Bacs (Christie's and Phillips auctioneers).This breathtaking book explores more than 50...

Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality and power, art and commerce, crisis and culture—both highbrow and low. In the sumptuous 38...

Includes primary research that gives detailed and unique insight into garments worn between 1680-1790. The book covers the techniques needed to en...

The Great Han is an ethnographic study of the Han Clothing movement (Hanfu yundong), a neo-traditionalist and majority racial nationalist movement ...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. In an era of hyper visuality, service-based labour markets, con...

A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair. Times Literary Supplement Over the last century, there has been a revolution in se...

A powerful exposé of Parisian haute couture Book of the Week, Times Higher Education Fashion is one of the most powerful industries in the world,...

Winner of the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021 In 1939, fashion became an economic and symbolic sphere of great import...

Average body mass in many Western cultures is getting larger and yet the fashion system seems mostly unchanged. Major fashion houses still limit th...

A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair. Times Literary Supplement In the period 1450 to 1650 in Europe, hair was braided, ...

A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair. Times Literary Supplement The Enlightenment (1650-1800) was the Golden Age of hair...

A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair. Times Literary Supplement 19th and early 20th-century hair appears to be everywher...

A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair. Times Literary Supplement The Middle Ages were a time of great innovation, artisti...

In the first book to address the critical role of the (un)dressed body in the formation of the modern Middle East, these essays unveil contemporary...

The study of fashion has expanded into a thriving field of inquiry, with researchers utilizing diverse methods from across subject disciplines to e...

Just as the clothes we wear can communicate our personality and how we want to be perceived, so fashion can reflect the politics and preoccupations...

In recent years, menswear has moved decisively center stage. Menswear Revolution investigates the transformation of mens fashion through the lens o...

Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021 Libertine practices have long been associated with transgression ...

Anthropologists have examined how diverse human populations modify and dress their bodies since the earliest days of the discipline. The Anthropolo...

The Fashion Business Reader is the first comprehensive anthology of classic and cutting-edge writings on the global fashion business, from producti...

Cosplay, short for costume play, has grown from its origins at fan conventions into a billion-dollar global dress phenomenon. Costuming Cosplay tak...

After toppling the Ming dynasty, the Qing conquerors forced Han Chinese males to adopt Manchu hairstyle and clothing. Yet Chinas new rulers tolerat...

Fashion ephemerafrom catalogues and invitations to press releaseshave long been overlooked by the fashion industry and fashion academics. Fashion R...

From couture fashion to opulent perfumes and decadent food, the luxury goods and services industry has grown at an unprecedented rate even in the c...

A fascinating look at one of the most experimental, volatile, and influential decades, Film, Fashion, and the 1960s, examines the numerous ways in ...

The book highlights how the signs of fashion showcase stories, hybridations, forms of feeling, from the classics of fashion in cinema, to fashion a...

Through a variety of archival documents, artefacts, illustrations, and references to primary and secondary literature, On the Job explores the chan...

Beards-they're all the rage these days. Take a look around: from hip urbanites to rustic outdoorsmen, well-groomed metrosexuals to post-season hock...