Fashion History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr

Jah Wobble

A Brief History Of Now

Richard Thompson Ford

Dress Codes

A “sharp and entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our society. Dress codes are as old as clothing itself…

ZYX Italo Disco History: 1989

Lucia Savi

A New History of Made in Italy

Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2024 In the first book to examine the role played by textile manufacturing in the development of fashion in Italy, A New Histor…

Lucy Duff-Gordon,

Lucile

Fast wäre Lucy Duff-Gordon 1912 mit der Titanic untergegangen und damit eine der erfolgreichsten Modeschöpferinnen ihrer Zeit. Doch Lucy Duff-Gordon überlebte die Katastrophe und so ging die fabelhafte Ka…

Rosie Harte

The Royal Wardrobe: peek into the wardrobes of history's most fashionable royals

A very fashionable history of the Royal family, from the Tudor age that saw Henry VIII's wives dressing to survive a tyrant to the new generation of royals in the 21st century who are bringing contemporar…

Skilled Immigrants in the Textile and Fashion Industries

With contributions from leading experts, this edited collection presents original research on the skills brought by immigrant communities to the textile and fashion industries, from the early modern to po…

Nina Edwards

The Virtues of Underwear

Laced with illustrations of undergarments both prosaic and exotic, a global exposé of the hidden meaning of knickers, lingerie, and everything in between. This book unravels the intimate narratives wove…

Nancy Macdonell

Empresses of Seventh Avenue

In the tradition of The Barbizon and The Girls of Atomic City, fashion historian and journalist Nancy MacDonell chronicles the untold story of how the Nazi invasion of France gave rise to the American fas…

Ty Cashion

Lone Star Mind

There is the story the Lone Star State likes to tell about itself-and then there is the reality, a Texas past that bears little resemblance to the manly Anglo myth of Texas exceptionalism that maintains a…

Dress History of Korea

Bringing together a wealth of primary sources and with contributions from leading experts, Dress History of Korea presents the most recent approaches to the interpretation of dress and fashion of Korea. …

Andrea Ventura, Mirko Di Giovanni, David Petrini

The Squarzi Archive

The first exclusive look at international fashion influencer Alessandro Squarzi's American vintage clothing archive, curated from among 6,000 pieces he's collected over 40 years

Darzah

The first high-end volume published on the traditional costumes of Saudi Arabia, with authentic and previously unpublished artworks and documentation from the acclaimed Darat Safeya Binzagr collection. C…

Rei Kawakubo

Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons is undoubtedly one of the world's major fashion designers. In 2017 she was the second living designer ever to be given a retrospective at the renowned Costume Institute o…

Mark C O'Flaherty

Narrative Thread

"I adored this book and can't recommend it highly enough" - CATHY HORYN "Beautifully executed" - NORMA KAMALI "A visual feast" - GILES DEACON "Entertaining, thought-provoking, and serious. Read it and lea…

Lauren Downing Peters,

Fashion Before Plus-Size

Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2024 In 2022, it was reported that plus-sizes accounted for nearly twenty percent of all women's apparel sales in the United St…

Zahra Hankir

Eyeliner: A Cultural History

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick “Cosmetic, tool of rebellion, status signifier: Eyeliner has been all these and more. Moving through millenniums and across civilizations, Hankir gives t…

Ingrid E Mida

Dressing and Undressing Duchamp

Fashion is a subject that has long been marginalized in art history and in museums. And yet, one of the most well-known artists in the twentieth century - Marcel Duchamp - created works that challenge the…

Fashion and Motherhood

Motherhood, whether achieved through biological or other means, is not a rare experience; dressing oneself, even less so. The two phenomena are intimately linked, as both occur on and to the private body,…