Fashion

Alistair O'Neill Hardcover | 21.79 x 3.28 x 26.97 cm | 304 pp Lannoo | 2021 | 9789401476058 Developed in collaboration with the fashion programme at Central Saint Martins, Exploding Fashion examines the impact of innovative pattern-cutting in several key examples of 20th century fashion design....

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...

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...

Mick Farren Softcover | 18.42 x 0.64 x 23.5 cm | 144 pp Plexus | 2008 | 9780859654104 Ever since a leather-jacketed Marlon Brando slouched across the screen in The Wild One, the jacket’s mixture of animal magnetism, brooding menace, and sexual provocation has made it a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Anouchka Grose Hardcover | 11.9 x 1.4 x 19 cm | 144 pp Notting Hill Editions | 2023 | 9781912559497 From the court of Louis XIV to Tik Tok's Avant Apocalypse, psychoanalyst and clothes lover Anouchka Grose takes an unexpected look at fashion to unpick...

Shahidha Bari Softcover | 11 x 0.9 x 17.6 cm | 48 pp Tate Publishing | 2022 | 9781849767170 In Look Again: Fashion, esteemed academic and broadcaster Shahidha Bari guides us through the surprising insights that come of these questions - and reveals that thinking...

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...

Softcover |  20.4 x 27.6 x 2 cm | 288 pp Prestel | 2011 | 9783791346960 Ever since the late 1960s when Yves Saint Laurent and Paco Rabanne presented African-inspired collections, the textiles, details, and colours of Africa have moved into the realm of high...

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;...

Hardcover | 24.77 x 4.32 x 31.75 cm | 400 pp Metropolitan Museum of Art | 2020 | 9781588396884  About Time: Fashion and Duration traces the evolution of fashion, from 1870 to the present, through a linear timeline of iconic garments, each paired with an...

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 | 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...

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...

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...

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...