Fashion & Textiles: Design

Associations between the cheongsam dress and Chinese cultural identity are well known but what are the meanings of the cheongsam for members of the...

The fashionable, eccentric pedestrians of Tokyo are captured with hundreds of portrait photographs in this fun guide to Tokyo street fashion. Toky...

In this funny and poignant memoir and cultural history, the television personality, columnist, and author of Drag pays homage to Lou Reeds groundbr...

The first major publication to explore the prolific career of Kaffe Fassett, one of the most recognized names in contemporary craft and design   Ka...

A fascinating exploration of how photography, graphic design, and popular magazines converged to transform American visual culture at mid-century T...

Exploring the origins and lasting significance of a dynamic, subversive, and interactive art form This is the first publication to consider art to ...

Articulating eight decades of American style through the emotive language of clothingfrom celebrated designers that established the modern legacy o...

The story of Indias exuberantly colored textiles that made their mark on design, technology, and trade around the world Chintz, a type of multicolo...

Jerrie Marcus Smith remembers her great aunt Carrie as a humorless woman who always wore black and who, Jerrie says, scared me to death. Only as an...

A behind-the-scenes history of Pitti Uomo and the creative development of mens fashion over the past 40 years Since the 1980s, mens fashion has le...

Mens jewelry has a long and fascinating history, with storied houses, famous patrons and a diverse range of modern designers. Behind each tiny piec...

Colour is a powerful selling tool. It is the first thing to catch the consumer''s eye in the shop window. Get the colour choice wrong and an entire...

''Leather Fashion Design'' is a practical, how-to book about making garments from leather, suede and similar materials. It covers everything from w...

Designing and Making Hats and Headpieces is an inspiring and instructional guide to the art of millinery. It explains how to go about designing a ...

Bring home the chic Parisian world of style and charmWhen Jennifer Scott arrived at the doorstep of a grand Sixteenth Arrondissement apartment as a...

The British have always been concerned about accent, appearance and class, but at no time during the twentieth century was keeping up appearances m...