Intends to impart that knowledge listing the top 50 dresses that have made a substantial impact in the world of British design, from the 1915 Delphos Pleated dress to Hussein Chalayan's 2007 LED dress.

Lists the top 50 shoe designs that have made a substantial impact in the world of design. This work offers a short appraisal to explore what has made their iconic status and the designers that give them a special place in design history.

A highly illustrated guide to the history of Western fashion, arranged chronologically according to the various art movements of the time.

Fashion is a global industry, and plays a role in our economic, political, cultural, and social lives. However, fashion is often denigrated as trivial and superficial, a sign of vanity and narcissism. This Very Short Introduction will give a clear understanding of how fashion has developed while addressing these divergent views.

Most certainly not for jeans and t-shirt wearers, this pocket guide is an etiquette and history of classic styling. It illustrates the fine differences in the gentleman's dress code and enables readers to dress for any occasion. It also includes summary style charts and warnings of classic faux pas.

* A fascinating investigation into the relationship between people and clothes, on a human rather than design level

Why is it that simply getting dressed in the morning can be a bewildering experience? This book offers practical tips and basic clothing care advice so that women of all ages make fashion work for them.

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.

Offers you information you need to know about the fashions of wartime Britain and the impact that rationing, the Utility scheme, changing tastes and the demands of everyday life had on the styles people wore. This title tells you how civilian men, women and children dressed - and why they looked the way they did during the Second World War.

In the Omo Valley the local Surma and Mursi tribes decorate the territory of their naked bodies with whatever nature offers, such as leaves, flowers, grasses, butterfly wings and snail shells as well as the occasional pen top or Kalashnikov cartridge. The author captures these decorations to form a parade of African fashion.

Packed full of insights and visual verve, 'Rebel Rebel' is the last word on the key look which dominates fashion from the catwalk to the club: rebel style. This book will appeal to those who invest in more interesting design ethics as well as for fans of music, fashion, art, design and celebrity, avid for guidance and insights into these worlds from one who truly knows.

Focuses on medieval dress as it is depicted in the illuminated manuscript, and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of illuminations as source material. This book is of interest to art historians and costume designers and those interested in the colourful period of medieval dress and fashion.

Celebrating the Footsteps of the Contemporary Woman.

A compendium of clothing advertisements, which brings back the prevalent looks from the Swinging Sixties. The ubiquitous miniskirt is here in all its glory, along with mod fashions, Gidget/Beach Boys surfer looks, Correges space age clothing and iconic items such as the Rudi Gernreich topless bathing suit and Yves Saint-Laurent's Mondrian dress.

Offers the hints and tips needed to make clothing last longer. This book helps you: to keep clothes looking trim as long as they had to last; to renovate children's outgrown clothes so cleverly that none is ever wasted; to turn every scrap of good material possessed to advantage; and, to make do with things you already had instead of buying new.

Jillian Venters was a fairly spooky and morbid child, with parents who never objected to her eccentric taste in clothing. When she discovered the existence of the whole Gothic subculture, she clapped her hands with glee. Eventually she came to realise that excellent clothes were not a substitute for excellent manners.

Roland Barthes, widely regarded as one of the most subtle and perceptive critics of the 20th Century, was particularly fascinated by fashion and clothing. The Language of Fashion brings together all Barthes' untranslated writings on fashion. The Language of Fashion presents a set of remarkable essays, revealing the breadth and insight of Barthes' long engagement with the history of clothes. The ..

A photographic fashion portrait of US first lady Michelle Obama, written by a leading fashion editor and filled with over 200 inspiring photographs that document Michelle's evolving style.

A History of 20th Century Fashion charts the early dominance of couture to the influences of street culture.

Exploring the changing styles and uses of bags, this book features photographs of bags from V and A's famous collections.