History of Fashion

Since becoming the capital of reunited Germany, Berlin has had a dose of global money and international style added to its already impressive cultu...

Featuring detailed scenes of court pageantry and life-size portraits of members of the French Valois dynasty woven in wool, silk, and precious meta...

An unprecedented study that reveals tapestrys role as a modernist medium and a model for the movements discourse on both sides of the Atlantic in t...

Originally published in 2007, Red Carpet struck a chord with all of us who can t get enough of the Hollywood red carpet scene at the biggest celebr...

A timely and splendidly illustrated global exploration of the complex intersections of fashion and politics from the mid-19th century to the presen...

A visual overview of contemporary African fashion, Fashion Africa is a comprehensive guide compiled with an ethical perspective.Jacqueline Shaw pro...

An introduction to the design, production and use of luxury embroideries in medieval England (c. 12001530) In medieval Europe, embroidered textiles...

Recreating Historic Dress: Clothing Gems from the Hereford Museum Clothing Collection, with Patterns compiles patterns and information for 25 never...

Recreating Historic Dress: Clothing Gems from the Hereford Museum Clothing Collection, with Patterns compiles patterns and information for 25 never...

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...

The business of time explores the evolution of the global watch industry from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, offering a comprehensive h...

'Kept me spellbound...You can practically feel the heaviness and sumptuousness of the velvet and other lush materials of the vintage gowns in your ...

From the ancient barbarians responsible for the fall of Rome, to the black-lipped teenager updating their Instagram from a graveyard, Goths have be...

Prince was devoted to the art of dressing. A multi-million selling artist and musical trailblazer, he used fashion as an added storytelling tool. O...

Animal products were used extensively in nineteenth-century Britain. A middle-class Victorian woman might wear a dress made of alpaca wool, drape h...

Inside the Westminster Menswear Archive is a unique guide to the role of garment archives as an industry resource for designers to research and exa...

The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca artThe most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic mad...

Inside the Westminster Menswear Archive is a unique guide to the role of garment archives as an industry resource for designers to research and exa...

A wooden box holds the buttons of three generations of women in Lynn Knights family each one with its own tale to tell...Tracing the story of wome...

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 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...

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...

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 Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1650, a time of change, conflict, and transformation. Innovations in color...

In 2005, two brothers with a background in the music industry decided to channel their love for sound into a different medium: fashion. Laurent and...

Gorgeously repackaged, this reissue of the classic book presents the iconic photographer's expert and witty reminiscences of the personalities who ...

A heavily illustrated classic on the evolution of the handloom.   The handloomoften no more than a bundle of sticks and a few lengths of cordagehas...

Textiles were the second-most-traded commodity in all of world history, preceded only by grain. In the Ottoman Empire in particular, the sale and e...