This work looks at Gabrielle Chanel's career, her workroom, her customers and her rivals. It focuses on Chanel the couturiere, her innovations and her influence on the way women choose to look in the modern world. The story is brought up to 1994 based on an interview with Karl Lagerfeld.

First published to accompany an exhibition at the V&A, this book looks at the three main trends which are currently dominating international fashion: the arrival of the British superstar designers; the European conceptual, minimalist movement; and the influential Japanese designers.

Mrs Lucy Wallace, Lady Duff Gordon as she became, transformed her business from a modest home-based dressmakers into the leading international fashion enterprise, Lucile Limited. This book focuses on 'Lucile Limited's Autumn 1905' fashion album, which features hand-painted plates and samples of fabrics and trimmings.

Celebrates V&A's status as a source of inspiration for designers, reflecting the breadth and depth of a collection that represents over 3,000 years of objects from all over the world.

Celebrates V&A's status as a source of inspiration for designers, reflecting the breadth and depth of a collection that represents over 3,000 years of objects from all over the world.

Lee Miller (1907-77) was not only one of the great beauties of the twentieth century but one of its remarkable photographic artists, performing with brilliance on both sides of the camera. Miller conceived many Surrealist-inspired photographs of haunting originality; she was a portraitist of genius and an inspired and daring war photographer.

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

Taking examples from various media and genres, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of Baroque, tracing its development from Rome, centre of Papal and princely power.

This catalogue contains over 800 drawings of Sir William Chambers (1723-1796) an important architect of the 18th century and a key figure in the neo-classical revival. The collection includes designs for interior decoration, furniture and silver. It also comprises a range of graphic techniques.

Celebrates the ephemera and performance costumes worn by The Supremes, one of the successful groups of the sixties and traces their career from the early days when they were known as The Primettes to the glamorous height of their fame in the 70s.

Highlights the V&A's renowned world dress collection. This book explores cut work and silk embroidery from Indonesia, applied metal braid and cord fastenings from Albania, as well as elaborate patchwork from Tibet, India, Korea and Iran.

Celebrates V&A's status as a source of inspiration for designers, reflecting the breadth and depth of a collection that represents over 3,000 years of objects from all over the world.

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.

Provides an insight into the working of Leonardo da Vinci's graphic work. This book features pages of his notebooks that deal with inventions, visions of the earth in age-long transformation, the governance of mathematical proportion in the design of the universe, the observations and theories of the motions of waters, and more.

Illustrated with the V&A's unrivalled collection of South-Asian sculpture, this work looks at Indian temple sculpture, as an instrument of worship which embodies powerful religious experience. It considers its cosmological meaning, its origins, the temple setting and the role of sculpture within it; and reveals the vivid rituals in practice.

This concise guide explores styles of British decorative art from the time of Henry VIII to the death of Queen Victoria.

Tells the story of the design and the decorative arts in Britain from the end of the Middle Ages through the reigns of Henry VIII and the great Elizabethan era to the beginning of the 18th century.

Offers a study of the ideas that have shaped the domestic interior in the West over five hundred years. Looking at an array of depictions of the home, this book deals with both public and private attitudes to the domestic interior, and features various things from grand decorative schemes to homely cottages.

With an empire that embraced a fifth of the earth's land surface and a quarter of its people, Britain was the workshop of the world. London was rivalled only by Paris as a focus for international interest in design and the decorative arts and British products could be found across the globe.

Endlessly innovative, Ossie Clark brought street style to London's most fashionable people. A 'master cutter', he was also a celebrity in his own right, numbering among his friends David Hockney, Patrick Proctor, Mick and Bianca Jagger, Patti Boyd and George Harrison.