Fashion & Textiles: Design

Royal women wield a unique, quiet kind of power. They use their clothing choices and their styling preferences to create a visual brand that is at ...

Behind nearly every item in the modern wardrobe is a first of its kind - the definitive item, often designed by a single company or brand for speci...

Part look-book, part memoir, and part history, this beautifully illustrated monument to a singular designer who helped inspire the growing Indigeno...

Available again, this beautifully produced collection of fashion illustration celebrates the richness of fashion drawing in Vogue magazine. William...

This stunning exploration of Chinese and Central Asian textiles draws from one of the world's major collections. In private hands, it features obje...

Highlighting many examples of previously unseen and unusual garments from one of the preeminent kimono collections, this dazzling volume explores t...

Scholars have argued that postmodernism is dead and that we are entering into a new era that some have labelled altermodernism, digimodernism, perf...

A Cultural History of Color in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400. The medieval age saw an extraordinary burst of color - from illumina...

A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity covers the period 3000 BCE to 500 CE. Although the smooth, white marbles of Classical sculpture and archit...

Originally published in 1937 and reprinted as a fourth edition in paperback in 1979, this is a history of dress in England from the Norman Conquest...

Originally published in 1958, this book deals with the details of dress formal and informal from the time of Charles II to the end of the eightee...

Eighteenth-century fashion was cosmopolitan and varied. Whilst the wildly extravagant and colorful elite fashions parodied in contemporary satire ...

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the production of dress shifted dramatically from being predominantly hand-crafted in small qua...

During the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking good. The finest fashions demanded careful chemistry and compounds imported from gr...

Over the last century there has been a complete transformation of the fashion system. The unitary top-down fashion cycle has been replaced by the p...

A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800. From the Baroque to the Neo-classical, color transformed ar...

A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to the present, a time of extraordinary developments in colour science, philos...

A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920, when the world embraced color like never before. Inventions, suc...

Over the last century there has been a complete transformation of the fashion system. The unitary top-down fashion cycle has been replaced by the p...

During the 19th and early 20th centuries the production of dress shifted dramatically from being predominantly hand-crafted in small quantities to ...

Eighteenth-century fashion was cosmopolitan and varied. Whilst the wildly extravagant and colorful elite fashions parodied in contemporary satire ...

Spurred by an increasingly international and competitive market, the Renaissance saw the development of many new fabrics and the use of highly priz...

Shortlisted for the Leslie and Sophie Caplan Award for Jewish Non-Fiction Surviving photographs of Jewish Viennese men during the fin-de-siècle an...

From star astrologer and fashion expert, Anthony Perrotta, AstroStyle is the ultimate guide to identifying your signature look based on the power o...

Faig Ahmed (b. 1982) represented Azerbaijan at the 2007 Biennale in Venice and is considered to be one of the most important contemporary artists f...

Inspired by the introduction of synthetic fabrics to Brazil in the 1960s, MASP Renners Art in Fashion project is a rare example of clothing produce...

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...

What happens to contemporary dance costumes when the show is over and their surrounding legacy slips from view? How might costumes be mobilised tow...

Be inspired by captivating fashion photography showcasing runway creations, street styles, monochromatic looks, colour combinations, accessories, a...

Surrealist artist, muse of Man Ray, photographer, fashion model and Vogue war correspondent - Lee Miller defies categorization. Beginning her caree...