Fashion & Textiles

Eric Musgrave Softcover | 25.4 x 1.27 x 25.4 cm | 160 pp Batsford | 2014 | 9781849941631 Putting on a fashion show is not the preserve of big fashion houses. Anyone with creativity and some energy can put one on. There are some...

Wessie Ling & Simona Segre-Reinach Softcover | 14.53 x 1.78 x 21.67 cm | 288 pp Bloomsbury | 2020 | 9781350148024 The transformation of China from a major site for clothing manufacture to an intensely fashion consuming society has been widely documented. Less has been written about the...

Hardcover | 22.86 x 1.91 x 29.85 cm | 104 pp Damiani | 2011 | 9788862081481 The 40 full-page colour photographs presented here - which include landscapes, fashion and still lifes as well - form a kind of atlas on skin that also refers...

Softcover | 27.99 x 1.6 x 34.29 cm | 228 pp Distanz | 2016 | 9783954761340 Not many fashion photographers get to see their pictures become part of the pop-cultural mainstream. The controversial cover the German photographer Horst Diekgerdes created for the Britpop band...

Hardcover | 20.32 x 2.79 x 31.24 cm | 240 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500022009  Supreme Glamour builds a complete picture of the charm and sophistication of The Supremes. With the assistance of her close personal friend Mark Bego, founding member Mary...

Max Donnelly Hardcover | 18.03 x 2.03 x 19.81 cm | 144 pp Thames & Hudson | 2021 | 9780500480700 Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) is one of the most influential British designers of all time and he is widely regarded as Britain’s first independent industrial designer....

Vince Aletti Softcover | 26.54 x 3.81 x 33.15 cm | 468 pp Phaidon | 2019 | 9780714876788 This is a fabulous showcase of ground-breaking photography of fashion magazines over the last century. Acclaimed photography critic Vince Aletti has selected 100 significant magazine issues from...

Simon Wells Hardcover | 24.77 x 1.78 x 32.39 cm | 176 pp Omnibus Press | 2020 | 9781785588433 While many books, films and documentaries claim to have captured the phenomenon that was Swinging London, just one magazine was present in the capital during the...

Hardcover | 15.88 x 3.05 x 22.23 cm | 176 pp Laurence King | 2022 | 9789063695385 Internationally recognised and prize-winning design studio, Studio Kluif, never ceases to amaze with their magical and attractive designs. Ranging from graphic design, illustration, packaging and design for...

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...

Softcover | 21.5 x 2.46 x 27 cm | 272 pp ACC Art Books | 2021 | 9781788841481 This is the illustrated story of super-stylist Caroline Baker – the woman who shaped modern street fashion. It explores Baker’s highly influential career – in her...

Hardcover | 26.24 x 3.76 x 33.55 cm | 320 pp Arnoldsche Art Publishers | 2020 | 9783897905955 Celebrated world-wide for his modern romantic jewels that push the boundaries of contemporary design, Shaun Leane has been responsible for creating a new genre of jewellery;...

Bethan Ash Hardcover | 21.6 x 1.6 x 27.6 cm | 128 pp Batsford | 2011 | 9781849940092 Bethan Ash’s rich, colourful quilts are created using improvisational collage techniques. Working instinctively, she simply layers fabric shapes onto a prepared background and fuses them down,...

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....

Julia Garimorth Hardcover | 24.61 x 2.92 x 29.54 cm | 280 pp Prestel | 2023 | 9783791379975 This career-spanning exhibition catalog reveals the enormous artistic achievements - both individual and shared - of two of the greatest pioneers of twentieth-century modernism. Featuring more than...