The Kyoto Costume Institute holds one of the world's most extensive clothing collections and has curated many exhibitions worldwide. This title showcases a vast selection from the Institute's archives of skilled photographs depicting the clothing expertly displayed and arranged on custom-made mannequins.

From the invention of the needle 40,000 years ago to the biggest names in fashion today, this is a classic guide to the landmarks of costume history and to the forms and materials used through the ages. Also included are the underlying motives of fashion and the ways clothes can express identity.

This lively survey of 150 years of fashion covers everything from Haute Couture to the High Street. From Coco Chanel to Alexander McQueen, Breward explores fashion as a cultural phenomenon. Topics include fashion in film, the world of Vogue and advertising, and the use of fashion to create identity from the Flapper to the New Look, and Dandy to Punk.

Corsets and Crinolines is a study of the changing shapes of women's dress and how these were produced.

Covering the world history of costume, dress, and style, this work focuses on European clothing from the Middle Ages to the 1880s. It is intended for students, designers, artists, illustrators, and historians; and for anyone with an interest in clothing and style.

A Historical Survey with 202 plates. Reprint.

Uses the bra to gauge the social history of women and to understand the business history of fashion. This book illuminate the effect the brassiere has had on women's lives - their style, health, and economic opportunity. It also contains examples from advertising, movies, and other areas of popular culture.

Reveals the decorative seams, exquisite stitching, voluptuous drapery, strict corseting and slashing and stamping that make up the clothing in the V&A's superlative seventeenth and eighteenth-century fashion collection. This work is suitable for students, designers, collectors and followers of fashion.

From the primitive clothes of prehistoric times to the whimsical fashions of today, the history of costume is a vast and popular subject. Over 1000 illustrations drawn from many sources accompany the text.

This landmark publication celebrates 45 years of Valentino's remarkable career as he stands down from the Valentino fashion brand and retires aged 75.

A book on fashion in the 1940s, covering everything from French style under the Occupation and the make do and mend mentality, through issues of dress, patriotism and propaganda and the development of faux fabrics and rationing, to the rise of American fashion houses and the creation of Christian Diors New Look.