History of Fashion

Fashion has always sought to celebrate nature - from sumptuous silks and floral patterns, to the spectacular creations of designers such as Alexand...

Victorian Fashions for Men explores the British styles and clothing throughout the long reign of Queen Victoria from the late 1830s to the first ye...

A wildly entertaining biography of the British fashion designer who set the trends for rock royalty from the Beatles to Mick Jagger to Elton John.T...

The Handbook of Fashion Studies identifies an innovative spectrum of thematic approaches, key strands and interdisciplinary concepts that continue ...

Lost (m)ODE captures more than 40 years of the clothing culture in Czechoslovakia during the socialist era. Post-war clothing design felt the inten...

Charting the movements, developments and ideas that transformed the way women dress, this book gives a unique perspective on the history of twentie...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Few clothing items are as ubiquitous or...

Fashion Reimagined features 50 outstanding examples of fashionable dress drawn entirely from the outstanding collection of the Mint Museum, Charlot...

From the creator of the bestselling Bad Girls Throughout History! Celebrated illustrator and author Ann Shen shares her striking study of history...

Anna Sui is one of New York’s most beloved and accomplished fashion designers, known for creating contemporary original clothing inspired by specta...

Coal and Velvet explores the romantic vision and the artistic reinterpretations of the great 20th-century couturier Cristobal Balenciaga and the na...

A sophisticated wardrobe guides series for modern men. Uman. The Essays is a series of commentaries by contemporary connoisseurs (authors, journali...

With stunning illustrations from the book Nevertheless, She Wore It, this journal inspires readers to find their inner style. Here''s a space fo...

Perhaps more so than any other decade, the sixties had the broadest impact on the twentieth-century Western world. Across society, culture and the ...

'[A] lively journey through the evolution of footwear' - The i 'Handsomely illustrated and meticulously assembled' - Shahidha Bari, author of Dres...

A gorgeously illustrated exploration of the history, culture, and design process of the famed fashion house Chanel Chanel: The Making of a Colle...

This book is a journey through the sparkling world of the iconic Maison Boucheron, which has championed a sensual, chic, modern, and independent fo...

In 1764, British Customs confiscated a book containing hundreds of silk samples of different qualities from French agents who were attempting to se...