Fashion & Textiles: Design

Cloth dolls are a huge hit in the creative world and textile artists have taken up the challenge, using them as the perfect three-dimensional vehic...

In clear and easy-to-follow steps, this highly effective textbook sets out everything that students need to know to produce competent and visually ...

The ultimate guide to achieving beautiful and inspirational quilt blocks. Modern Japanese quilting uses Eastern and Western techniques to create q...

This comprehensive study of womens and mens fashion accessories provides fashion merchandising students with a detailed analysis of the fashion acc...

The sari has remained an essential part of culture, tradition and fashion in South Asia and India through many centuries. This book examines the va...

This title was first published in 2002. To date, studies explaining decorative practice in the early modernist period have largely overlooked the w...

Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, this book delves into the rich world of Ghanaian fashion, demonstrating how, over time, loca...

A laugh-out-loud, feel-good novel from Top 100 bestelling author of Worn Out Wife Seeks New Life!She's hit the big time... hasn't she?Personal shop...

Heidi Kumao: Real and Imagined documents and contextualizes narrative fabric works and animations from Kumao’s 2020 solo exhibition at the Universi...

In this rich examination of gender fluidity in contemporary fashion design, Judith Beyer develops an emerging new theoretical framework for underst...

The apparel and textiles industry is one of the industries most affected by globalization, and involves complex relationships that are constantly e...

Formed in 2009 by Sofia Prantera and Fergus Purcell, London-based and Italian-designed label, Aries has cemented itself as a permanent fixture on t...

First published in 1981, In A Glamourous Fashion is not only a fascinating look at film fashion portraying the glamour and glitter of Hollywood’s h...

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A New York Times BestsellerA Cosmopolitan Best Nonfiction Book of 2024‘Compulsively readable: I found myself dashing through it like a novel’ The W...

A well-illustrated cultural history of the apparel worn by American Catholics, Sally Dwyer-McNulty's Common Threads reveals the transnational origi...

Movie buffs and film scholars alike often overlook the importance of makeup artists, hair stylists, and costumers. With precious few but notable ex...

In 2016, social media users in Thailand called out the Paris-based luxury fashion house Balenciaga for copying the popular Thai “rainbow bag,” usin...

This volume explains cleaning of cotton after blow room treatment and individualization process in conventional card including functions related to...

Mendings tells an intimate story about family, selfhood, and the love and loss lodged in garments. In this narrative about making meaning of broken...

This new edited collection assembles academic essays and intellectual activism equally next to visual essays and artistic interventions and propose...

Canadian Critical Luxury Studies: Decentering Luxury is a dynamic new contribution to the study of luxury. The essays in this collection challenge ...

Throughout history, fashion has emerged as one of the most powerful driving forces determining the political, economic and social ramifications of ...

Challenging the notion that fashion and furniture were or are separate enterprises and distinct material aesthetic traditions, this collection focu...

The second edition of The Spec Manual provides fashion professionals and students with an affordable, up-to-date guide for measuring a variety of g...

One of the most influential, admired, and innovative women of our time: fashion designer, philanthropist, wife, mother, and grandmother, Diane von ...

How do we define taste? The only certainty is that it shifts and changes - sometimes abruptly. With the explosion of vulgar consumerism in the mid-...

Tweed is one of Scotland’s great gifts to the world. Woven into every strand of this most authentic and rugged of cloths is an extraordinary herita...

Tang dynasty (618–907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang’an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via...