Fashion & Textiles

Jan Kedves Hardcover | 17.15 x 1.91 x 24.77 cm | 208 pp Prestel | 2013 | 9783791348230 Journalist Jan Kedves isn't afraid to ask a pointed question and his subjects certainly aren't afraid to answer. Whether it's Bruce Weber discussing nudity, dogs and Clint...

Louise Clarke Softcover | 17.2 x 3.9 x 24.2 cm | 384 pp London College of Fashion | 2008 | 9781903455074 The Measure is a unique publication that offers a fascinating insight into the thoughts and working lives of an eclectic and prolific cross-section of...

Vixy Rae Hardcover | 15.3 x 2.54 x 19.3 cm | 304 pp Black & White Publishing | 2023 | 9781785305207 Tartan is so much more than just a cloth. From its clan origins in the Scottish Highlands to the catwalks of Milan, London and...

Softcover | 19.05 x 2.29 x 25.15 cm | 256 pp Victionary | 2017 | 9789887774648 Camo Mania explores the how artists and designers redefine and reify the impacts of camouflage. Through experimentation with visual contrasts, imagery, composition, colour and shape, the once limited function of these patterns become...

Sonya Abrego Softcover | 19.05 x 2.03 x 24.51 cm | 304 pp Bloomsbury | 2022 | 9781350147676 During the prosperous, forward-thinking era after the Second World War, a growing number of men, women, and children across the United States were wearing fashions that evoked...

Pierre Toromanoff Hardcover | 23.5 x 2.54 x 29.85 cm | 244 pp teNeues | 2023 | 9783961714421 Text in English and German Jeanne Lanvin was ahead of her time. The French fashion visionary and imaginative businesswoman from a poor background not only created...

Hardcover | 25.15 x 3.05 x 31.75 cm | 304 pp Thames & Hudson | 2020 | 9780500023464 Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the...

Hardcover | 22.1 x 3.15 x 28.7 cm | 256 pp Rizzoli | 2017 | 9780847848805 Fashion is often seen as an industry of eccentric personalities and unique, exceptional talents but it's the collaborators, rather than the individuals, who underpin the industry and inspire...

Dilys E. Blum Hardcover | 26 x 1.9 x 30.5 cm | 220 pp Yale University Press | 2011 | 9780300169584 A stunning survey of the work of renowned Italian fashion designer Roberto revered by contemporary fashion designers for his innovative silhouettes and masterful use of colour...

Hardcover | 27.94 x 1.91 x 25.4 cm | 136 pp The Delaware Art Museum | 2014 | 9780977164493 Photographer Scott Heiser was best known for his grainy, wildly cropped glimpses of fashion runway shows that appeared in Interview between 1979 and 1987. Andy Warhol admired...

Rebecca Arnold Softcover | 18.42 x 1.59 x 23.5 cm | 160 pp Wellfleet | 2018 | 9781577151746 Most of us have some feeling for fashion and have a vague idea of what's in and what's out. Less familiar to most, however, is the way...

Henrietta Goodden Hardcover | 20.96 x 2.54 x 26.04 cm | 224 pp Unicorn Press | 2020 | 9781916495777  This is the first biographical study of the women who made the Royal College of Art's School of Fashion a household name. Madge Garland, Janey Ironside,...

Hardcover | 21.59 x 2.22 x 27.94 cm | 200 pp Phaidon | 2013 | 9780714865270 Philip Treacy (b.1967) is one of the world's most famous and influential milliners. Hat maker to top fashion houses, celebrities and international royalty, his unique creations are hand-made...

Linda Welters & Abby Lillethun Softcover | 19.05 x 3.05 x 24.51 cm | 520 pp Bloomsbury | 2021 | 9781350059139 In The Fashion Reader, Linda Welters and Abby Lillethun have selected 77 influential articles to offer insight into the critical theories and conversations that surround...

Hardcover | 23.1 x 1.6 x 31.7 cm | 106 pp Damiani | 2011 | 9788862080767 Fifteen internationally renowned artists explore a medium foreign to their usual practice, experimenting within the lost world of wall-hanging tapestry. Three years in the making, the fourteen tapestries...

Charles Fréger Hardcover | 19 x 3.3 x 23.6 cm | 320 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500022467 All across the Americas, from the 16th century onwards, enslaved Africans escaped their captors and struck out on their own. These runaways, having found their freedom,...

Softcover | 24.5 x 2.34 x 33.5 cm | 260 pp Arnoldsche Art Publishers | 2020 | 9783897906105 Text in English and Norwegian. This monograph presents the Norwegian artist Bente Sætrang (b. 1946) and her forty years of commitment to the medium of textile....

Hardcover | 22.7 x 3.05 x 30 cm | 240 pp ACC Art Books | 2023 | 9781788842358  This is the first ever collection of Willie Christie’s vibrant work and includes his collaborations with Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones. Willie Christie’s photographs are...

Magda Keaney Softcover | 14.99 x 1.52 x 14.99 cm | 176 pp National Portrait Gallery | 2019 | 9781855147379 100 Fashion Icons showcases fashion portraits held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. The sitters include historic and contemporary fashion icons, fashion...

Richard Ansett Hardcover | 24 x 1.91 x 30 cm | 112 pp ACC Art Books | 2023 | 9781788842327  Best known in the art world for his ceramic works, to the wider public Grayson Perry is perhaps equally famous for his cross-dressing alter ego....