Fashion & Textiles

C. June Barnes Hardcover | 21.59 x 1.27 x 27.94 cm | 128 pp Batsford | 2012 | 9781849940252 Quilt art doesn't have to be flat. These days, the most innovative quilt artists are creating intricate raised structures, using various folding, gathering, pleating, stuffing, padding,...

Dan Jones Softcover | 15.88 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm | 112 pp Conran Octopus | 2016 | 9781840917284 Painfully cool and instantly recognisable, the 50 style trailblazers in this collection used fashion to attract attention, gain influence, express themselves and make powerful statements. From...

Cameron Russell Hardcover | 13.5 x 2.1 x 21.6 cm | 224 pp Oneworld Publications | 2024 | 9780861547869 The realities of the fashion industry is exposed in this devastating account of the life of a successful supermodel. Scouted by a modelling agent when she...

Ana Finel Honigman Softcover | 15.62 x 2.03 x 19.56 cm | 114 pp Frances Lincoln | 2021 | 9780711259065 Alexander McQueen will go down in history as the most talented and enigmatic 'bad boy' of fashion. But it was his drive and visionary perspective that secured...

Hardcover | 15.88 x 1.91 x 21.59 cm | 112 pp Conran Octopus | 2011 | 9781840915693 Everything around us is designed and the word 'design' has become part of our everyday experience. But how much do we know about it? Fifty Hats That...

Hardcover | 23.5 x 3.3 x 29.85 cm | 376 pp Unicorn Press | 2021 | 9781913491000 In the 1980s David Thomas was an unemployed plumber with a seemingly impossible dream: to become a fashion stylist. He ran away to London, landed a job...

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...

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...

Francesca Sterlacci & Barbara Arata-Gavere Softcover | 25.7 x 1.9 x 29.8 cm | 352 pp Laurence King | 2019 | 9781786271969 Pattern making, patternmaking, pattern cutting or flat patterning, are all words that describe the process of creating a two-dimensional diagram or template of a...

Els van Baarle & Cherilyn Martin Hardcover | 24.1 x 1.3 x 27.9 cm | 128 pp Batsford | 2017 | 9781849944366 An inspirational and practical book on how to interpret and collaborate on different themes in textile art. With foreword by Marie-Therese Wisniowski, who runs...

Elena Dorfman Softcover |  21 x 2.3 x 28 cm | 144 pp Aperture | 2007 | 9781597110358 In Fandomania, photographer Elena Dorfman examines the pop culture phenomenon of "cosplay," in which participants dress up in costumes and live part of their lives as characters...