History of Fashion

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

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...

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

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

The 1970s was a decade of style contrasts: every extreme of fashion was met by an equally trendy opposite reaction. Ankle-length maxi skirts vied f...

A unique, full-color compendium that celebrates and explores the enduring power and allure of the world’s most iconic lip shade, jam-packed with en...

Gone are the days when fashion relied on a runway launch with coinciding press promotions to show a couturier’s new range. Today, design houses are...

Over the last 180 years designers have propelled fashion from an elite craft into a cornerstone of popular culture. This brilliantly written guide ...

A Passion for Fashion provides an amusing look at some of the clothes, underclothes, shoes and accessories worn by many of the more colourful chara...

Examining how dress evolved over the long nineteenth century, between the French Revolution and the First World War, Pam Inder explores the history...

Discover fashion that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when people take tradition and ri...

An inspiration to countless designers and the stomping ground of fashion's in-crowd, London is the capital of subculture.From Mary Quant to Alexand...

The epicentre of classic chic and the home of haute couture, Paris is the capital of elegance.From the iconic luxury of Chanel, Dior and Saint Laur...

The most colorful and complete book published on the most enduring souvenir ever invented: the Hawaiian shirt. Beautifully illustrated with hundre...

It was a scene that had many names: some original members referred to themselves as punks, others, new romantics, new wavers, the bats or the morbi...

This book contains everything you need to know about suits, from the traditional designs of the early 1900s, to innovative contemporary variations....

Vienna may not be synonymous with fashion like its metropolitan counterparts Paris and Milan, but it is a fashionable city, one that historically h...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.We think we know the trench coat, but whe...

When war was declared in September 1939, young people around the world were expected to put on a uniform and fight in a conflict not of their makin...

Imagine stepping into someone else’s shoes. Walking back in time a century ago, which shoes would they be? A pair of silk sensations costing thousa...

"His work went beyond fashion and was a fine art." —a Charles James patron Charles James, often considered to be America’s first couturier, was ren...

An astute exploration of the most outrageous shoe designs of the 21st century This fabulously illustrated book explores western culture’s fascinati...

An exclusive look at one hundred fabulous shoes from the renowned Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art A hundred pairs of shoes, fro...

This book is a comprehensive library of dress styles to be used as a reference for the fashion designer, fashion student and anyone interested in t...

Beginning in the 16th century, the golden age of European navigation brought about the flowering of an abundant textile trade, spurred by Western t...