Fashion & Society

'A gripping blockbuster... Thomas researches meticulously and writes with simmering even-handed anger' TELEGRAPH. Fashionopolis is the definitive ...

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

June 22nd, 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the SS Empire Windrush arrival at Tilbury Docks carrying Caribbean workers to help rebuild Britain af...

Working for Christian Dior is a contemporary personal reflection by Jean Dawnay, taking from her autobiography Model Girl, on her season working as...

Best Fifteen Books of March 2019, Refinery29 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019, Paste Magazine Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully design...

In the 1850s a craze swept through the wardrobes of the women of British and American society. These 'bloomers', wearing their new loose-fitting 'T...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The veil can be an instrument of femin...

The shoes of Manolo Blahnik have been called magical totems of success and femininity (The Guardian) and boast a cult following of devotees the wor...

War Paint is the story of two extraordinary women, Miss Elizabeth Arden and Madame Helena Rubinstein, and the legacy they left: a story of feminine...

For as long as spirits have existed, there has been someone doing something really naughty with them: selling gin through pipes in a London back al...

In the early 1940s, American designer Emily Wilkens went beyond her previous experience in children's wear to create costumes for two teenage chara...

The name Phyllis Posnick is synonymous with Vogue and the extraordinary fashion editorials the magazines audience loves. Posnick is best known for ...

From workaday marigolds to hand-wear custom crafted for the Queen, gloves perform many functions insulation from the cold, protection from injury,...