Fashion Design

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...

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...

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...

Guillaume Bounoure & Chloe Genevaux Hardcover | 19.81 x 2.03 x 27.43 cm | 176 pp Gingko Press | 2020 | 9783943330328 Cork: in Architecture, Design, Fashion, and Art showcases the fascinating ways cork can be incorporated in our lives. With sustainability at the forefront of every designer’s...

Mark Paytress Hardcover | 20.32 x 2.79 x 26.67 cm | 304 pp Omnibus Press | 2022 | 9781913172282 This is a triumphant bid to capture lightning in a bottle! Glam came and went in a few short years, but renowned music journalist Mark...

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...

Patrick Potter Hardcover | 16.5 x 22 cm | 192 pp Carpet Bombing Culture | 2018 | 9781908211590 Sometime around the beginning of the 1960’s, a number of stars aligned. A small but fanatical group of young men and women, mostly no more than...

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...

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 | 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...

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...

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,...

Jo Hambro Hardcover | 23.62 x 1.78 x 29.72 cm | 160 pp Clearview | 2020 | 9781908337412 A polaroid is the physical and organic reminder of a particular moment, enabling the creative team to step back and fully consider the technical and artistic direction...

Serena Dyer Softcover | 15.6 x 1.85 x 23.4 cm | 322 pp Bloomsbury | 2022 | 9781350181021 Fashion travels. Every new shape of sleeve, each novel method of cutting and any innovation in fabric has spread through complex networks of makers, retailers and consumers....

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...

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,...

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...

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...