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...

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...

Marnie Fogg Hardcover | 22.71 x 1.96 x 22.68 cm | 192 pp Batsford | 2021 | 9781849945875 The 1950s was the decade when an analytical approach to design, with a lightness and freshness, combined with whimsical imagery and idiosyncratic subject matter. Showcasing hundreds 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...

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...

Rebecca Arnold Softcover | 18.42 x 1.59 x 23.5 cm | 160 pp Wellfleet | 2018 | 9781577151746 Most of us have some feeling for fashion and have a vague idea of what's in and what's out. Less familiar to most, however, is the way...

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 | 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...