Fashion (£5 or Less)

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...

Hardcover | 14.3 x 2 x 18 cm | 178 pp Knopf | 2021 | 9780593320426 Considered the world's most popular cult novelist, Haruki Murakami has written books that have galvanised millions around the world. Many of his fans know about his 10,000-vinyl-record collection,...

Venetia Porter & Amy de la Haye Hardcover | 20.96 x 2.54 x 26.04 cm | 160 pp Unicorn Press | 2018 | 9781911604563 Starting in 1966, Thea Porter designed clothes for the rich and famous for nearly two decades. Her creations were made from...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Thomas Makryniotis Softcover | 24.8 x 1.3 x 24.1 cm | 176 pp Batsford | 2015 | 9781849942935 Digital technologies in fashion are becoming more accessible and now any creative with a basic knowledge of fashion design and computing can create convincing still or animated 3D...

Julia Stelzner Softcover | 16.66 x 1.85 x 24.13 cm | 192 pp Prestel | 2014 | 9783791348858 Written by a style insider, this book explores every aspect of Berlin's love affair with clothing. In an engaging series of brightly illustrated chapters it explains what...

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...

Ruth Styles Softcover | 24.3 x 1 x 20.9 cm | 144 pp Ivy Press | 2014 | 9781782400554  Want to know which textile options are the greenest? Worried about workers' rights? Interested in the recycling renaissance and the rise in eco fashion? Look no further.Drawing on...

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...