Fashion & society books

The definitive overview of hair in history, this ground-breaking scholarly work presents nearly 3000 years of hair...  Read More >>

Explores how fashion and the deviant outsider connect in everyday dress.  Read More >>

How has Christianity engaged with democracy?  Read More >>

Over one thousand rings from Yves Gastou's personal collection are beautifully displayed and photographed in this...  Read More >>

Ambitious in scope and groundbreaking in approach, Slow Fashions reframes debates about fashion and sustainability....  Read More >>

A lavishly illustrated catalogue on Asian textiles from the 1920s.  Read More >>

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What is it about a pair of shoes that so enchants women of all ages, demographics, political affiliations, and style...  Read More >>

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This edited volume on radical dress reforms in East Asia takes a fresh look at the symbols and languages of modernity...  Read More >>

Attitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means...  Read More >>

We dress to communicate who we are, or who we would like others to think we are, telling seductive fashion narratives...  Read More >>

Cosplay, short for ""costume play"", has grown from its origins at fan conventions into a billion-dollar global...  Read More >>

The Victoria Karelias Collection of Traditional Greek Costumes contains male and female costumes, as well as jewels...  Read More >>

Art and fashion have long gone hand in hand, but it was during the modernist period that fashion first gained equal...  Read More >>

"Cosplay, short for ""costume play"", has grown from its origins at fan conventions into a billion-dollar global...  Read More >>

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the production of dress shifted dramatically from being predominantly...  Read More >>

Over the last century there has been a complete transformation of the fashion system. The unitary top-down fashion...  Read More >>

Attitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means...  Read More >>

Eighteenth-century fashion was cosmopolitan and varied. Whilst the wildly extravagant and colorful elite fashions...  Read More >>

During the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking good. The finest fashions demanded careful chemistry...  Read More >>

This book is a modern exploration of how we engage with fashion today through the fields of Fashion, Dress, Material...  Read More >>

The first book on Nike’s iconic DUNK SB, a mid-rise basketball court staple that has in the last two decades become...  Read More >>

Exoticisation Undressed is an innovative ethnography that makes visible the many layers through which our understandings...  Read More >>

For 1000 years Africans wore bangles, lots of them. The style was African and unique-chunky and weighty. Their...  Read More >>