History of Fashion

On the one hand clothes can supposedly help you out with embodied life by concealing the bits you feel ashamed of and accentuating the bits you're ...

Early American Childrens Clothing and Textiles: Clothing a Child 16001800 explores the life experiences of Indigenous, Anglo-European, African, and...

Clothes define people. A persons attire, whether it be a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential code to his or her culture, class, persona...

Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent is the pocket-sized and exquisitely illustrated story of 60 years of innovative fashion design.An enigmatic, dari...

A visual showcase of fashion icon Alessandro Squarzi's 6000-piece American vintage collection of rare garments spanning military to workwear, embod...

- An essential reference for students, curators and scholars of fashion, cultural studies, and the expanding range of disciplines that see fashion ...

Yves Saint Laurent, or YSL, is one of the most famous fashion designers of all time, whose impact on the fashion world is almost unmatched. A revol...

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

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...

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

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 The unitary top-down fashion cycle has been replaced by the p...

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...