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Textile Design Theory in the Making by Dr Elaine Igoe
SciFier: $218.34Textile design inhabits a liminal space spanning art, design and craft. This book explores how textile design bridges the decorative and the functional, and takes us from handcrafting to industrial... -
Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia by Dr Lorinda Cramer (Australian Catholic University, Australia)
SciFier: $74.18In gold-rush Australia, social identity was in flux: gold promised access to fashionable new clothes, a grand home, and the goods to furnish it, but could not buy gentility. Needlework and Women's... -
Transorientalism in Art, Fashion, and Film: Inventions of Identity Adam Geczy (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781350175334
SciFier: $76.30Combining transnationalism and exoticism, transorientalism is the new orientalism of the age of globalization. With its roots in earlier times, it is a term that emphasizes alteration, mutation, and... -
Concentrationary Imaginaries: Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds, UK) 9781350229556
SciFier: $68.82In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the... -
Fashion, History, Museums by Julia Petrov (Royal Alberta Museum, Canada)
RRP: $63.58SciFier: $63.15This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. "A remarkable resource... -
Fabric of Vision by Anne Hollander (N/A)
RRP: $67.82SciFier: $59.49Clothing appears in all forms of figurative painting, often taking up two thirds of a frame; yet it can often go unnoticed. Far more than a simple means of identifying the status or occupation of a... -
Costume in Performance by Donatella Barbieri (Victoria and Albert Museum and London College of Fashion, UK)
SciFier: $79.48Winner of Best Performance Design and Scenography Publication Award, Prague Quadrennial 2019 This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding... -
Menswear by John Hopkins (Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton, UK)
RRP: $57.22SciFier: $50.90Whether it's a military inspired trench coat or a Savile Row tailored suit, menswear design increasingly demands originality, innovation and above all, choice. Menswear, 2nd edition explores the... -
The Dress Detective by Ingrid E. Mida (Independent Art and Dress Historian, Artist and Curator, Canada)
SciFier: $65.47The Dress Detective is the first practical guide to analyzing fashion objects, clearly demonstrating how their close analysis can enhance and enrich interdisciplinary research. This accessible book... -
Experimental Fashion by Professor Francesca Granata (Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA)
SciFier: $61.90Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication Award. Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between... -
Hats by Professor Clair Hughes (Formerly of International Christian University, Japan)
RRP: $53.00SciFier: $46.28Bowlers, Bergeres, berets and beyond, this is the ultimate guide to hats through history. From the lavish fashion hats of Marie Antoinette's court to the experimental millinery of Stephen Jones and... -
Queering the Subversive Stitch: Men and the Culture of Needlework Joseph McBrinn (University of Ulster, UK) 9781472578044
RRP: $55.10SciFier: $47.72The history of men's needlework has long been considered a taboo subject. This is the first book ever published to document and critically interrogate a range of needlework made by men. It reveals... -
Concentrationary Memories: Totalitarian Terror and Cultural Resistance Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds, UK) 9781350229174
SciFier: $70.30Concentrationary Memories has, as its premise, the idea at the heart of Alain Resnais's film Night and Fog (1955) that the concentrationary plague unleashed on the world by the Nazis in the 1930s and... -
Fashion Stylists by Ane Lynge-Jorlen (Lund University, Sweden)
SciFier: $72.06Stylists have become increasingly influential in shaping fashion imagery. They have moved from the backstage, as unrecognised players, to the frontstage of fashion, becoming celebrated for their... -
Digital Research Methods in Fashion and Textile Studies Dr Amanda Sikarskie 9781350134478
SciFier: $63.79Are you a researcher struggling to mine and make sense of a mountain of fashion data? Are you interested in learning about how digital methods and tools could enhance your research? Have you thought... -
Teaching Fashion Studies Dr Holly M. Kent (University of Illinois-Springfield, USA) 9781350022874
SciFier: $219.40Teaching Fashion Studies is the definitive resource for instructors of fashion studies at the undergraduate level and beyond. The first of its kind, it offers extensive, practical support for both... -
Inside the Royal Wardrobe by Kate Strasdin (Falmouth University, UK)
SciFier: $64.21Queen Alexandra used clothes to fashion images of herself as a wife, a mother and a royal: a woman who both led Britain alongside her husband Edward VII and lived her life through fashion. Inside the... -
Fashioning Horror by Julia Petrov (Royal Alberta Museum, Canada)
SciFier: $78.42From Jack the Ripper to Frankenstein, Halloween customs to Alexander McQueen collections, Fashioning Horror examines how terror is fashioned visually, symbolically, and materially through fashion and... -
Carnival to Catwalk: Global Reflections on Fancy Dress Costume Benjamin Linley Wild 9781350024694
SciFier: $70.30Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021 From West African masquerades to Venetian carnivals and New York society galas, fancy dress has long been used to... -
Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century Serena Dyer (De Montfort University, UK) 9781350126961
SciFier: $74.90Eighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women's material experiences and practices, Material Lives offers a new perspective on... -
A Philosophy of Textile: Between Practice and Theory Catherine Dormor (Royal College of Art, UK) 9781350195837
SciFier: $72.06Textile is at once a language, a concept and a material thing. Philosophers such as Plato, Deleuze and Derrida have notably drawn on weaving processes to illustrate their ideas, and artists such as... -
Skin Crafts: Affect, Violence and Materiality in Global Contemporary Art Julia Skelly (McGill University, Canada) 9781350290464
SciFier: $67.82Skin Crafts discusses multiple artists from global contexts who employ craft materials in works that address historical and contemporary violence. These artists are deliberately embracing the... -
On the Job: A History of American Work Uniforms Heather Akou (Indiana University, USA) 9781350349384
SciFier: $228.20Through a variety of archival documents, artefacts, illustrations, and references to primary and secondary literature, On the Job explores the changing styles, business practices, and lived... -
Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid by Dr Pam Inder (Independent Scholar, UK)
SciFier: $72.06The dressmaking trade developed rapidly during the 18th and 19th centuries, changing the lives of thousands of British workers. Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid focuses on the trade and the people... -
The Hidden History of the Smock Frock Alison Toplis (University of Wolverhampton, UK) 9781350212640
RRP: $55.10SciFier: $52.72Winner of the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2022 Traditionally associated with rural ways of life in England, often hand-crafted and held up as one of the only items of... -
Stories of Fashion, Textiles, and Place by Leslie Davis Burns (Responsible Global Fashion LLC, US)
SciFier: $59.64Stories of Fashion, Textiles, and Place follows the journeys of five companies with evolving sustainable supply chains in the fashion and textile industry. Each of the profiled companies are... -
Luxury and Visual Culture John Armitage 9781474246033
SciFier: $71.10From couture fashion to opulent perfumes and decadent food, the luxury goods and services industry has grown at an unprecedented rate even in the context of a global recession. But in contemporary... -
Introducing Fashion Theory: From Androgyny to Zeitgeist Andrew Reilly (University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA) 9781350091917
SciFier: $59.64How does a style become a fashion? Why do trends spread and decline? Introducing Fashion Theory explores these questions and more to help you quickly get up-to-speed with fashion theories, from... -
The Fashion Reader Linda Welters (University of Rhode Island, USA) 9781350059139
SciFier: $94.09In The Fashion Reader, Linda Welters and Abby Lillethun have selected 76 influential articles to offer insight into the critical theories and conversations that surround this huge international... -
Folk Fashion: Understanding Homemade Clothes Dr Amy Twigger Holroyd (Research Fellow, Nottingham Trent University, UK) 9781350159495
SciFier: $57.22A dynamic resurgence in sewing and knitting is under way, with many people enjoying making and mending their own garments at home. However, stories abound of homemade clothes languishing at the back... -
Fashion Trends: Analysis and Forecasting Eundeok Kim (Florida State University, USA) 9781350099005
SciFier: $177.00In a fast-moving global industry, how can anyone know what the next trend will be? Fashion Trends: Analysis and Forecasting offers a clear pathway into the theory and practice of forecasting fashion,... -
Styling South Asian Youth Cultures by Lipi Begum (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK)
SciFier: $76.30For South Asia, fashion and consumption have come to play an increasingly important role in the lives of young people and in the formation of youth cultures. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India,... -
The Psychopolitics of Fashion: Conflict and Courage Under the Current State of Fashion Otto Von Busch (Parsons School of Design, USA) 9781350102309
SciFier: $239.54What if fashion was a state? What kind of state would it be? Probably not a democracy. Otto von Busch sees fashion as a totalitarian state, with a population all too eager to enact the decrees of its... -
Time in Fashion: Industrial, Antilinear and Uchronic Temporalities Caroline Evans 9781350146945
SciFier: $239.54Few phenomena embody the notion of time as well as fashion. Fast-moving and rooted in the 'now', it's constantly creating its own past through the process of rapid style change. Uniquely poised... -
The Fundamentals of Fashion Design Richard Sorger (Kingston University, UK) 9781474270007
SciFier: $81.79The Fundamentals of Fashion Design provides a fully illustrated introduction to the key elements of fashion design, from the initial concept of a fashion idea to realizing it in 3D form. Writing... -
Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern World Professor Jane Tynan (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) 9781350045552
SciFier: $241.66Uniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern World examines the role uniform plays in public life and private experience. This volume explores the social, political, economic, and cultural... -
The Story of Colour in Textiles by Susan Kay-Williams
SciFier: $66.53The colour and shade of dyed textiles were once as much an indicator of social class or position as the fabric itself and for centuries the recipes used by dyers were closely guarded secrets. The... -
Textile Design Theory in the Making by Dr Elaine Igoe (University of Portsmouth, UK)
RRP: $61.46SciFier: $52.98Textile design inhabits a liminal space spanning art, design and craft. This book explores how textile design bridges the decorative and the functional, and takes us from handcrafting to industrial... -
Fashion and Textile Design with Photoshop and Illustrator: Professional Creative Practice Robert Hume 9781350090125
SciFier: $105.58A step-by-step guide to two essential tools for textile and fashion designers. Designer and educator Robert Hume guides you from novice to expert through 20 carefully crafted projects. You'll... -
Japanese Fashion Designers: The Work and Influence of Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamotom, and Rei Kawakubo Professor Bonnie English (Late of Griffith University, Australia) 9781350088146
RRP: $67.82SciFier: $59.30Over the past 40 years, Japanese designers have led the way in aligning fashion with art and ideology, as well as addressing identity and social politics through dress. They have demonstrated that...