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...

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...

Hardcover | 23.77 x 3.53 x 31.01 cm | 352 pp Lannoo | 2020 | 9789401468077 SONG, a legendary fashion, art, and interiors concept store in Vienna was founded in the 1990s by Myung-il Song. As an early outpost of edgy design and emerging...

Softcover | 20.78 x 2.08 x 25.15 cm | 248 pp ACC | 2014 | 9781851497676 Text in English with a summary in Italian In Fashion by Chance Italian fashion designer Cleonice Capece provides a vivid and richly documented account of how creativity, entrepreneurial...

Hardcover | 26.67 x 3.05 x 34.29 cm | 296 pp Scheidegger & Spiess | 2014 | 9783858817587 A tie reveals a lot about its wearer - social position, aesthetic tastes or political stance. From the early 17th until the beginning of the 20th...

Softcover | 17 x 1.91 x 25 cm | 184 pp Arnoldsche Art Publishers | 2020 | 9783897905979 In the 1960s and 1970s, a generation of young Americans rejected the promise of prosperity and the suburban dream embraced by their parents. Furious about the...

Jian Deleon Hardcover | 12.7 x 1.7 x 19.8 cm | 160 pp Studio Press | 2024 | 9781800789760 This pocket-sized visual history of the ground-breaking and ground-shaking street style brand presents the story of Dr. Martens, from its beginnings in 1901 as a producer...

Hardcover | 28.19 x 3.05 x 36.07 cm | 320 pp Steidl | 2016 | 9783958290570 This book features Karl Lagerfeld's most beautiful photographs of haute-couture garments shot for French fashion magazine Numéro, published to celebrate its 15 years of collaboration with the famous...

Ghislaine Wood Softcover | 18.73 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm | 96 pp V&A | 2007 | 9781851775026 The representation of the body, and particularly the female body, provides a common thread through the activities of the Surrealists. In fashion photography and illustration, the...

Hardcover | 24.89 x 2.29 x 34.29 cm | 192 pp Thames & Hudson | 2017 | 9780500519356  The first visually led exploration of androgyny, the combination of female and male characteristics, from representations in antiquity to its current prevalence in the fashion world...

François Berthoud Hardcover | 29.21 x 5.26 x 32.89 cm | 360 pp Rizzoli | 2022 | 9780847870899 Known for erotica and romantic fashion illustration and for blending them to highlight the eroticism he considers inherent in fashion, François Berthoud is recognised as one of...

Laurie Wisbrun Softcover | 21.6 x 1.6 x 27.8 cm | 208 pp A & C Black | 2011 | 9781408147009 The Complete Guide to Designing and Printing Fabric is a comprehensive handbook covering everything there is to know about designing and printing fabric....

Connie Amaden-Crawford Softcover | 21 x 1.5 x 27 cm | 184 pp Fairchild Books | 2014 | 9781472529459  Featuring easy-to-follow instructions on all the main basic and intermediate skills required to sew garments from a pattern, Fashion Sewing: Introductory Techniques is an excellent resource for fashion...

Pamela Vanderlinde Softcover | 21.59 x 1.35 x 27.94 cm | 216 pp Bloomsbury | 2021 | 9781350094673 Patternmaking for Dress Design guides you through the history of 9 iconic dress designs to show how they continue to inspire contemporary designers and the patternmaking techniques you'll need to...

Rayna Fahey Hardcover | 19.94 x 1.52 x 20.96 cm | 96 pp Herbert Press | 2017 | 9781912217045 Annoyed? Upset? Distraught? Want to stab a sharp object into something? Then this book is for you. Inspired by the banners and signs at marches around...

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...

Paul 'Smiler' Anderson Hardcover | 25.91 x 2.54 x 28.45 cm | 224 pp Omnibus Press | 2019 | 9781783059683 Examining and illustrating the art scene surrounding the birth of modernism and its simultaneous rise among the burgeoning working class Mod scene of the Sixties,...

Patrick Potter Hardcover | 16.5 x 22 cm | 192 pp Carpet Bombing Culture | 2018 | 9781908211590 Sometime around the beginning of the 1960’s, a number of stars aligned. A small but fanatical group of young men and women, mostly no more than...

Paul 'Smiler' Anderson, Mark Baxter & Suggs Hardcover | 20.32 x 2.79 x 26.67 cm | 304 pp Omnibus Press | 2021 | 9781785584930 Levis, Ben Sherman, Crombie. Reggae, rocksteady, soul. The look and sound of Suedeheads – instantly recognisable in the sixties and early seventies...