History of fashion books

1450 books were found.

Clothing through American History: The Civil War through the Gilded Age, 1861–1899

Clothing through American History: The Civil War through...

Author: Anita Stamper ,  Jill Condra
ISBN: 9780313335518
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Learn what men, women, and children have worn-and why-in American history, from the deprivations of the Civil War...  Read More >>

Women & Hats: Vintage People of Photo Postcards

Women & Hats: Vintage People of Photo Postcards

Author: Philip Treacy ,  Tom Phillips
ISBN: 9781851243624
Format: Hardback
$19.99

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Man Made Magic - When Science Meets Fashion: The Story of Nylon and Man-made Textiles in Fashion

Man Made Magic - When Science Meets Fashion: The Story...

Author: Ronnie Price
ISBN: 9781907685644
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Two world-wars changed society forever: the status of women, class system, attitudes to sex. Fashion played a key...  Read More >>

Eternal Chanel: An Icon's Inspiration

Eternal Chanel: An Icon's Inspiration

Author: Jean Leymarie
ISBN: 9780500515532
Format: Hardback
$90.00

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Accessorize!: 250 Objects of Fashion & Desire

Accessorize!: 250 Objects of Fashion & Desire

Author: Bianca du Mortier ,  Ninke Bloemberg
ISBN: 9789086890453
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Suitable for fashionistas with a sense of history, this book contains 250 of the most beautiful accessories.  Read More >>

Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture

Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture

Author: Catherine Harper ,  Doran Ross
ISBN: 9781847886798
Format: Paperback
$94.91

Textile is an international and peer-reviewed journal that brings together research in textile studies in an innovative...  Read More >>

100 Dresses: The Costume Institute / The Metropolitan Museum of Art

100 Dresses: The Costume Institute / The Metropolitan...

Author: Harold Koda
ISBN: 9780300166552
Format: Paperback
$51.95

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Allegra Hicks: An Eye for Design

Allegra Hicks: An Eye for Design

Author: Allegra Hicks
ISBN: 9780810995734
Format: Hardback
$70.00

A look at what inspires fashion, interior, and textile designer Allegra Hicks's signature patterns and interiors....  Read More >>

Dressing Up

Dressing Up

Author: Ulinka Rublack (Senior Lecturer in early modern European history at Cambridge University and a Fellow of St John's College)
ISBN: 9780199298747
Format: Hardback
$57.95

Uses an astonishing array of sources to imagine the Renaissance afresh by considering people's appearances: what...  Read More >>

Japan Fashion Now

Japan Fashion Now

Author: Valerie Steele ,  Patricia Mears
ISBN: 9780300167276
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Explores how Japanese fashion has evolved. With such essays as - ""Is Japan Still the Future?"", ""Fashion Revolution"",...  Read More >>

Imperial Chinese Robes: From the Forbidden City

Imperial Chinese Robes: From the Forbidden City

Author: Ming Wilson ,  Verity Wilson
ISBN: 9781851776207
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Focusing on the dress of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912), this book accompanies the first European exhibition of clothes,...  Read More >>

Shoes A-Z: Designers, Brands, Manufacturers and Retailers

Shoes A-Z: Designers, Brands, Manufacturers and Retailers...

Author: Jonathan Walford
ISBN: 9780500515266
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Tells the story of sixty years of shoes. This book covers more than 350 leading womens shoes designers and manufacturers,...  Read More >>

Boutique London a History: from Kings Rd to Carnaby Street

Boutique London a History: from Kings Rd to Carnaby...

Author: Richard Lester
ISBN: 9781851496495
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Follows the developing fashions and boutiques of King's Road and Carnaby Street in the 1960s, profiling more than...  Read More >>

Underwear: Fashion in Detail

Underwear: Fashion in Detail

Author: Eleri Lynn ,  Richard Davis
ISBN: 9781851776160
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Ranging from camisoles to corsets, basques to boudoir caps and girdles to garters, this title deals with some of...  Read More >>

Vogue Model: The Faces of Fashion

Vogue Model: The Faces of Fashion

Author: Robin Muir ,  Robin Derrick
ISBN: 9781408702536
Format: Hardback
$171.60

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20 Years of Dolce & Gabbana for Men

20 Years of Dolce & Gabbana for Men

Author: VVAA
ISBN: 9788837077037
Format: Hardback
$660.00

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Making, Selling and Wearing Boys' Clothes in Late-Victorian England

Making, Selling and Wearing Boys' Clothes in Late-Victorian...

Author: Clare Rose ,  Professor Gareth Shaw
ISBN: 9780754664444
Format: Hardback
$336.00

There has been a great deal of interest in masculine clothing, examining both its production and consumption, and...  Read More >>

Dressing for Pleasure in Rubber, Vinyl & Leather: The Best of AtomAge 1972-1980

Dressing for Pleasure in Rubber, Vinyl & Leather: The...

Author: Jonny Trunk ,  FUEL
ISBN: 9780956356239
Format: Hardback
$86.99

""AtomAge"" magazine was the underground bible of leather, rubber and vinyl fetish wear throughout the 1970s. It...  Read More >>

Yves Saint Laurent: Icons of Fashion Design

Yves Saint Laurent: Icons of Fashion Design

Author: Marguerite Duras ,  Yves Saint Laurent
ISBN: 9783829604710
Format: Paperback
$84.95

Yves Saint Laurent Icons of Fashion Design, acclaimed by the critics as an intoxicating book remains the most attractive...  Read More >>

Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

Author: Justine Picardie
ISBN: 9780007317615
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Justine Picardie has spent the last decade puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, attempting to peel away the...  Read More >>

Roman Clothing and Fashion

Roman Clothing and Fashion

Author: Alexandra Croom
ISBN: 9781848689770
Format: Paperback
$56.93

A detailed, finely researched and profusely illustrated history of clothing and fashion in the Roman Empire.  Read More >>

Rene Gruau's First Century

Rene Gruau's First Century

Author: Sylvie Nissen ,  Vincent Leret
ISBN: 9781902686738
Format: Undefined
$115.00

Though his name is not on everyones lips, his fashion sketches, his posters, his advertisements have all caught...  Read More >>

Isabella Blow

Isabella Blow

Author: Martina Rink ,  Philip Treacy
ISBN: 9780500515358
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Offers an homage to the glamorous, enigmatic Isabella Blow and her dramatic and doomed life.  Read More >>

Fashion Illustration 1930 to 1970

Fashion Illustration 1930 to 1970

Author: Marnie Fogg
ISBN: 9781906388812
Format: Hardback
$65.87

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