Fashion History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr

Marie Ottavi

Karl Lagerfeld

An extraordinary biography of Karl Lagerfeld, based upon a series of rare, powerful, and emotional interviews—the real story, full of inside details, that repeatedly surprises and enlightens. Ottavi enjo…

Cameron Silver

Caftans: From Classical to Camp

Join Cameron Silver, founder of LA's famous-and highly influential-vintage boutique Decades, leads a romp through the history and countless manifestations of the caftan, the world's most universal garment…

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

Im Jahr 1989 geht die große Italo Disco Ära zu Ende. Über viele Jahre waren die Titel ein fester Bestandteil der europäischen Charts. Unzählige Künstler wie Den Harrow, Radiorama, Ken Laszlo , Valerie Dor…

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…

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…

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

Lauren Downing Peters,

Fashion Before Plus-Size

In the first in-depth historical survey of the plus-size fashion industry, Lauren Downing Peters reveals how the fashion industry perpetuates and materializes fat stigma through design discourse.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

José Blanco F, Raúl J Vázquez-López,

Dress, Fashion, and National Identity in Puerto Rico

Analyzing dress, costume, and fashion in Puerto Rico, this collection utilizes case studies that explore national identity and nation formation as well as past and current practices in Puerto Rican visual…