History of Fashion

An irresistible look into more than 300 years of fashion through an exquisite collection of designer dresses What woman can resist imagining hersel...

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

Winner of the 2017 Milia Davenport Publication Award given by the Costume Society of America. Brought to life for the first time outside the attic ...

Between 1678 and 1710, Parisian presses printed hundreds of images of elegantly attired men and women dressed in the latest mode, and posed to disp...

Artificial bodies constructed in human likeness, from uncanny automatons to mechanical dolls, have long played a complex and subtle role in human i...

Timor has been a divided island at least since the seventeenth century when Dutch and Portuguese colonial empires competed for its control. Despite...

'A veritable tome of sneaker history...backed by nearly a decade of research and discovery.' - Hypebeast A riotous, 720-page celebration of sneake...

Muses of attitude, brains and confidence come together in this glossy compendium of the female icons who use their personal style and influence to ...

Here, in more than one thousand full-colour illustrations, is the history of Western costume, from ancient Egypt to Paris fashion. John Peacocks me...

An updated and expanded edition, covering the past five years of the Met Costume Institutes exhibitions and galas through the lens of Vogue   The M...

This handsome volume is the only book to present the story behind the remarkable fashion house of Missoni, whose midcentury designs for patterns an...

A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first ce...

Shoes are a hot topic and are regularly discussed in various magazines and books. However, only few have access to the absolute top designers and i...

At a moment of unprecedented creativity in men's fashion, and continuing reflections on gender, contemporary designers are questioning established ...

From cinemas silent beginnings, fashion and interior design have been vital to character development and narrative structure. Despite spectacular t...

A behind-the-scenes look at the only fashion show held at the White House and the intersections of fashion and politicsOn February 29, 1968, the Wh...

From 13th century Franciscan monks to Beyoncé in Black is King, Making a Spectacle charts the fascinating ascension of eyeglasses, from an unsightl...

This seminal text demystifies all the terminology around working with textiles today, providing definitions of processes, techniques, features, and...

Celebrating one of the worlds greatest couture houses, this gorgeous book combines Christian Diors classics with the newest creations. Christian ...

From the Chanel suit to the Wonderbra, via Jackie Kennedy, Ziggy Stardust and Alexander McQueen, respected fashion journalist and editor Paula Reed...