Superfine
Tailoring Black Style
ISBN: HB: 9781588397997,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
June 2025
350 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 300 colour illus.
350 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 300 colour illus.
This exploration of Black dandy fashion and its representation in art and literature highlights the vibrant, complicated legacy of a recognizable yet constantly shifting style, from its origins in Enlightenment Europe to the contemporary art and fash...
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60.00 GBP
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Artistic Dress at Liberty & Co
The Early Years
ISBN: HB: 9780300274301,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
240 pp., 27,0x21,6 cm, 281 colour & black&white illus.
240 pp., 27,0x21,6 cm, 281 colour & black&white illus.
Exploring how the name of Liberty became synonymous with Aestheticism and the English Art Nouveau Movement, and its role in shaping contemporary late nineteenth and early twentieth century Artistic Dress.
Liberty's dress department opened in 1884, h...
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35.00 GBP
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(Re)Dressing American Fashion
Wear as Witness
ISBN: PB: 9780300279160,
Yale University Press,
March 2025
280 pp., 17,8x22,2 cm, 120 colour illus.
280 pp., 17,8x22,2 cm, 120 colour illus.
A revelatory new approach to understanding fashion in America that focuses on the stories told by worn, imperfect, and ordinary clothes.
Expanding the history of American fashion, this volume highlights garments that carry material traces of everyd...
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30.00 GBP
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Mongol Shamans
Shaman Costumes at the National Museum of Denmark
ISBN: HB: 9788772197760,
Yale University Press,
September 2024
300 pp., 29,0x22,0 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.
300 pp., 29,0x22,0 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.
The costumes and ritual equipment presented in this volume were obtained from shamans in Mongolia and Siberia and represent today a unique cultural world heritage. They were collected in the 1930s by two Danish legendary travelers, Henning Haslund-Ch...
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60.00 GBP
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Africa's Fashion Diaspora
ISBN: HB: 9780300270730,
Yale University Press,
September 2024
240 pp., 27,0x21,6 cm, 149 colour illus.
240 pp., 27,0x21,6 cm, 149 colour illus.
One of the first books to examine the wide breadth of the African Diaspora and its influence on international fashion.
Tracing the local and global impact of Black Diasporic designers, "Africa's Fashion Diaspora" is one of the first books to explore...
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35.00 GBP
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Biba
The Fashion Brand that Defined a Generation
ISBN: HB: 9780300279023,
Yale University Press,
September 2024
256 pp., 26,9x21,5 cm, 100 black&white illus., 150 colour illus.
256 pp., 26,9x21,5 cm, 100 black&white illus., 150 colour illus.
Biba dominated London fashion from the mid-1960s, and, for over a decade, it defined the dress and outlook of a generation. Celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the opening of the first Biba boutique, this book takes a revealing look at Biba throu...
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30.00 GBP
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Sleeping Beauties
Reawakening Fashion
ISBN: HB: 9781588397775,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
July 2024
288 pp., 33,7x24,8 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.
288 pp., 33,7x24,8 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.
A feast for the senses, this book brings fashion to life through touch, smell, sight, and sound
What happens when a garment is preserved in a museum's archive and can no longer be worn? What do we lose when we protect fashion for study by future ge...
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60.00 GBP
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Women Dressing Women
A Lineage of Female Fashion Design
ISBN: HB: 9781588397201,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
November 2023
192 pp., 29,8x23,1 cm, 200 colour illus.
192 pp., 29,8x23,1 cm, 200 colour illus.
Exploring the enduring impact of fashions created by and for women, this book traces a historical and conceptual lineage across more than 70 female designers – from unidentified dressmakers in eighteenth-century France, to contemporary makers who are...
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35.00 GBP
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Jane Austen's Wardrobe
ISBN: HB: 9780300263602,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
240 pp., 25,6x19,2 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
240 pp., 25,6x19,2 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
Hilary Davidson delves into the clothing of one of the world's great authors, providing unique and intimate insight into her everyday life and material world.
What did Jane Austen wear?
Acclaimed dress historian and Austen expert Hilary Davidson...
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25.00 GBP
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Mood of the Moment
Gaby Aghion and Chloe
ISBN: HB: 9780300271188,
Yale University Press,
August 2023
256 pp., 30,5x25,4 cm, 211 colour, 71 black&white illus.
256 pp., 30,5x25,4 cm, 211 colour, 71 black&white illus.
An exploration of fashion designer Gaby Aghion's life, career, and legacy at the French fashion house Chloe.
As imagined by the company's founder, Gaby Aghion (1921-2014), the sophisticated, romantic, and glamorous designs of Chloe have captured th...
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50.00 GBP
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