History of fashion books

1439 books were found.

Concerning Beards: Facial Hair, Health and Practice in England 1650-1900

Concerning Beards: Facial Hair, Health and Practice...

Author: Alun Withey (University of Exeter, UK)
ISBN: 9781350213012
Format: Paperback
$61.99

"""Through an exploration of the history of male facial hair in England, Alun Withey underscores its complex meanings,...  Read More >>

Fashion, Dress and Post-postmodernism

Fashion, Dress and Post-postmodernism

Author: José Blanco F. (Dominican University, USA) ,  Andrew Reilly (University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA)
ISBN: 9781350214392
Format: Paperback
$61.99

"""This is an edited collection of new scholarship on the emerging topic of post-postmodernism and how it relates...  Read More >>

Moschino

Moschino

Author:
ISBN: 9781649800121
Format: Hardback
$495.00

When Jeremy Scott inherited Franco Moschino's eponymous fashion house in 2013, he did more than just give it a face...  Read More >>

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the...

Author: Lucy Adlington
ISBN: 9781529311983
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Hair

A Cultural History of Hair

Author: Dr Geraldine Biddle-Perry (Central St Martins, London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350287518
Format: Mixed media product
$336.38

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Indian Khadi Cloth: From National Fabric to Luxury Fashion

Indian Khadi Cloth: From National Fabric to Luxury Fashion...

Author: Phyllida Jay
ISBN: 9781474240017
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Historically known as the symbol of economic and political freedom at the heart of Mahatma Gandhi’s struggle for...  Read More >>

American Milliners and their World: Women's Work from Revolution to Rock and Roll

American Milliners and their World: Women's Work from...

Author: Nadine Stewart (Montclair State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350203174
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Studies of millinery tend to focus on hats, rather than the extraordinarily skilled workers who create them. American...  Read More >>

Cult T-Shirts: Over 500 rebel tees from the 70s and 80s

Cult T-Shirts: Over 500 rebel tees from the 70s and...

Author: Michael Reach ,  Phoebe Miller
ISBN: 9781802790986
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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Regional Dress: Between Tradition and Modernity

Regional Dress: Between Tradition and Modernity

Author: Sara Hume (Kent State University Museum, USA)
ISBN: 9781350147980
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Traditional dress is a common phenomenon across much of Western Europe, often originating in elaborate practices...  Read More >>

The Little Book of Hermès: The story of the iconic fashion house

The Little Book of Hermès: The story of the iconic fashion...

Author: Karen Homer
ISBN: 9781802790115
Format: Hardback
$24.99

A pocket-sized, illustrated book depicting the work and history of the House of Hermes.  Read More >>

The Business of Time: A Global History of the Watch Industry

The Business of Time: A Global History of the Watch...

Author: Pierre-Yves Donzé (Professor of Business History)
ISBN: 9781526162571
Format: Hardback
$185.00

This book follows the emergence and transformation of the watch industry throughout the world from the beginning...  Read More >>

Victorian Fashions for Women

Victorian Fashions for Women

Author: Neil R Storey ,  Fiona Kay
ISBN: 9781399004169
Format: Hardback
$59.99

A knowledgeable and informative text showing the changing styles and fashions for each decade of the long reign...  Read More >>

Reading Marie al-Khazen’s Photographs: Gender, Photography, Mandate Lebanon

Reading Marie al-Khazen’s Photographs: Gender, Photography,...

Author: Yasmine Nachabe Taan (Lebanese American University, Lebanon)
ISBN: 9781350191624
Format: Paperback
$61.99

"""I would like to thank Mohsen Yammine and the Arab Image Foundation, for having located and preserved Marie al-Khazen's...  Read More >>

Clothing Goes to War: Creativity Inspired by Scarcity in World War II

Clothing Goes to War: Creativity Inspired by Scarcity...

Author: Nan Turner (University of California, Davis)
ISBN: 9781789383461
Format: Paperback
$65.95

This is the story of clothing use when manufacturing for civilians nearly stopped and raw materials and workers...  Read More >>

Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse

Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse

Author: Lee Alexander McQueen ,  Clarissa M. Esguerra
ISBN: 9781636810188
Format: Hardback
$105.00

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Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art

Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art

Author: Alexandra Schwartz ,  Lydia Brawner
ISBN: 9781646570072
Format: Paperback
$158.27

"""This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art, presented...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume: 'Period Dress' in Twenty-First-Century Performance

Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume: 'Period Dress' in...

Author: Ella Hawkins
ISBN: 9781350234420
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The meanings originally communicated by Elizabethan and Jacobean dress have long been confined to history. Why,...  Read More >>

Disseminating Dress: Britain's Fashion Networks, 1600–1970

Disseminating Dress: Britain's Fashion Networks, 1600–1970...

Author: Serena Dyer ,  Jade Halbert
ISBN: 9781350181038
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Fashion travels. Every new shape of sleeve, each novel method of cutting and any innovation in fabric has spread...  Read More >>

Style from the Nile: Egyptomania in Fashion From the 19th Century to the Present Day

Style from the Nile: Egyptomania in Fashion From the...

Author: Isabella Campagnol
ISBN: 9781399098076
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Fashion history meets the Egyptians: the phenomena of the pharaohs and enduring fascinating with this ancient civilisation....  Read More >>

Dressing Up: A History of Fancy Dress in Britain

Dressing Up: A History of Fancy Dress in Britain

Author: Verity Wilson
ISBN: 9781789145298
Format: Hardback
$49.99

The colourful story of fancy dress in Britain.  Read More >>

Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

Author: Victoria Finlay ,  Carla Kissane
ISBN: 9798212290326
Format: Audio
$153.09

A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth - how we make it, use it and what it means...  Read More >>

Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

Author: Victoria Finlay ,  Carla Kissane
ISBN: 9798212290333
Format: Audio
$153.09

A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth - how we make it, use it and what it means...  Read More >>

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